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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
[Immobilization syndrome and iatrogenic dependence of hospitalized elderly people]
1Centre hospitalier universitaire Grenoble Alpes, CS 10217 Grenoble, 38700 La Tronche, France.
Abstract:
In the hospital, the geriatric missions of nurses and paramedical and medical teams are essential in order to benefit elderly patients and to fight against the immobilization syndrome through responsiveness and quality care. This care takes place in parallel with the specific medical care of the medical pathologies treated. In 2017, the High Authority for Health advocated good professional practices to avoid iatrogenic dependence of hospitalized elderly people. Through this article, we carry out a focus on the immobilization syndrome and its deleterious consequences: we must not do in the place of the elderly subject!
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