Abstract
The official French demographic previsions are a growing number of the older than 75 years elderly people. The Emergency services face this demographic evolution. We describe the establishment of the geriatric intervention group at the emergency of the Henri-Mondor university hospital at Creteil (France) and analyse the results of the geriatric assessment at the short unit care during the first four months. We analysed the results of the geriatric assessment of 206 patients during the first four months, by considering the final unit care. The geriatric assessment evaluates functional abilities, cognitive status and thymic function with elderly people validated tests and subjective assessment of nutrition status and the sensorial functions. The statistical analysis of the geriatric assessment results was significant among the different hospitalized groups of patients, for the cognitive status, the nutritional risk and the walk and standing evaluation. The results of the geriatric assessment at emergency showed cognitive impairment and gait abnormality in elderly patients were at risk of hospitalization.
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