[Appropriateness of direct admissions to acute care geriatric unit for nursing home patients: an adaptation of the AEPf GRID].

The patient population staying in nursing homes is increasingly vulnerable and dependent and should benefit from a direct access to an acute care geriatric unit. Nevertheless, the easy access by a simple phone call from the general practitioner to the geriatrician, as well as the lack of orientation of these patients by emergency units, might lead to inappropriate admissions. This work studied the appropriateness of direct admissions of 40 patients living in nursing home in an acute care geriatric unit.

[Arthritis of the thumb (rhizarthrosis) in the elderly].

Osteoarthritis of the base of the thumb is a common and painful condition, mostly observed in post menopausal women. This paper proposes a critical review of the recent papers in the point of view of geriatric medicine. The basal joint of the thumb is formed by the trapeziometacarpal joint and the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb.

[Evaluation tools of drug adherence for elderly subjects: towards a new pattern of scale].

Introduction: Medication non-adherence can be defined as a non-compliance with prescribed drugs. The characteristics of elderly people constitute major risk factors for non-adherence to medication. The aim of this study was to study the relevance of medication adherence scales that are identified in a previous work.

[Atrial fibrillation, comorbidities and new anticoagulants].

Unlabelled: The atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most important cause of arythmia and cerebrovascular disease in clinical practice. Comorbidity is defined as the association of active chronical diseases and a target disease.

Method: comparison between burden illness of the patients in interventional (n=4) and observational studies, form Medline database (n=4), was performed.

[Six-months outcomes after admission in acute geriatric care unit secondary to a fall].

Unlabelled: Fall in elderly subject is a main event by its medical and social consequences, but few studies were dedicated to the prognosis from hospitalization in geriatric acute care unit.

Aim: Describe the outcome of elderly subjects hospitalized after a fall in geriatric acute care unit.

Methods: Longitudinal study of 6 months follow-up, 100 patients of 75 and more years old hospitalized after a fall in acute care geriatric unit.