[Speech therapy after memory consultation: characteristics of patients receiving speech therapy sessions]

This real-life study aims to describe and compare the characteristics of patients who do or do not receive speech therapy after a memory consultation. Socio-demographic and medical data from the MEMORA cohort were matched with speech therapy reimbursement data from the French caisse primaire d'assurance maladie. Univariate analyses showed that speech therapy was more frequent in men, in patients with higher or secondary education, in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and having a higher MMSE. The multivariate model showed that only the diagnosis of AD remained strongly associated with the presence of speech therapy. The diagnosis of AD is the characteristic associated with the highest probability of future speech therapy. Female gender, lower level of education and lower cognitive efficiency appear to be associated with a lower probability of speech therapy.