Clinical characteristics, care professionals' intervention and care complexity for elderly patients in home hospitalization

INTRODUCTION: The number of elderly patients in home care in France is currently increasing. Our objective is to describe the clinical characteristics, the care professionals' intervention and the complexity of follow-up care for this elderly population.

METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of 50 elderly patients aged 75 and over living at home and followed-up in home hospitalization in 2016 by the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris. The collection of data used the interRAI-CA tool (Resident Assessment Instrument - Contact Assessment).

RESULTS: The average age of the sample was 84 years with 48% women, 26% living alone and 96% having a caregiver who had difficulty in caring in 33.3% of cases. Patients had numerous diseases with 68% of the sample who had cognitive difficulties with functional disabilities; Most of them reported pain and 52% had unstable clinical situation. The main care interventions were complex wounds, supportive care and palliative care with technical care and 80% of the sample mobilized more than 3 professionals. Care was considered to be of a high level of complexity for 74% of the elderly patients.

CONCLUSION: Our study showed that elderly patients had care complexity with technical and multi-faceted care implying coordination of stakeholders and support for caregivers. Implementing at-home hospitalization allows to transfer some geriatric patients from hospitalization to the home care and helps the structuration of the geriatric expertise among the primary care services.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

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Sante publique (Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France) - 31(2019), 2 vom: 02. März, Seite 269-276

Sprache:

Französisch

Weiterer Titel:

Soins en HAD : aspects cliniques, complexité et modalités d’intervention des soignants

Beteiligte Personen:

Gentin, M [VerfasserIn]
Marquestaut, Odile [VerfasserIn]
de Stampa, Matthieu [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 10.12.2020

Date Revised 15.12.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3917/spub.192.0269

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31829608X