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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
[Depression in the elderly and the care pathway]
1Centre hospitalier Bohars, centre hospitalier régional universitaire de Brest, route de Ploudalmézeau, 29200 Brest, France.
Abstract:
The French population is aging and forecasts for 2040 indicate that seniors could represent a quarter of the population. Depressive illness affects elderly subjects just as much, if not more. There is a clinical specificity of depression in this age group which explains why it is currently under-diagnosed and therefore under-treated. Taking into consideration the care pathway of the depressed elderly subject is a lever to increase the efficiency of access to care and to professionalize the coordinated approach to treatment.
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