Effects of the COTID (Community Occupational Therapist in Dementia) Program and Usual Occupational Therapy Care on Recurrence of Falls at 12 Months in Elderly People With Neurocognitive Disorders Who Had Been Hospitalized for Falls, After Their Return Home
Effets du Programme COTID (Community Occupational Therapist in Dementia) et d'Une Prise en Soins ergothérapique Habituelle Sur la récidive de Chutes à 12 Mois de Personnes âgées Atteintes de Troubles Neurocognitifs et Ayant été hospitalisées Pour Chute, après Leur Retour à Domicile
University Hospital, Limoges
76 participants
Jul 29, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This project will enable optimization of specific carried out by occupationist for older adults discharged from hospital for falls: * on the environmental dimension at the participant's home * on the involvement of the caregiver since they are also involved in the care of the patient * on the recurrence of falls and rehospitalizations in order to improve the quality of life by reassuring the elderly person when traveling * on limiting loss of autonomy and staying at home. The occupational therapist will entrust the caregiver with a support role. The participant will feel more involved in the participant's care (thus reducing the feeling of helplessness). His actions will allow him to strengthen his sense of competence and will prevent him from physical and psychological exhaustion.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria8
- Male or female, at least 75 years old
- Living at home (excluding nursing home or long-term care facilities)
- Hospitalized for fall
- Presenting major mild to moderate dementia (MMSE \> 16)
- Accompanied by a caregiver with sufficient presence to meet study procedures: at investigator's discretion at the investigator's discretion
- Having given free, informed and written consent signed by the patient
- Whose caregiver has given free, informed consent written and signed by him/herself
- Affiliated or beneficiary of social security
Exclusion Criteria10
- With serious, life-threatening pathology(ies) or in palliative care
- Participating in an educational fall program on the theme of falls, run by an occupational therapist by an occupational therapist
- Receiving regular occupational therapy treatment on the day of inclusion (day care daily hospitalization)
- Participating in a clinical research protocol have an impact on the occurrence of a fall (at the investigator's discretion)
- Not matching with the fall definition from Kellogg's definition of a fall (loss of consciousness, sudden onset of paralysis paralysis or epileptic seizure)
- Presenting a very significant post-fall syndrome:
- score of 4/4 on the "Get-up early" questionnaire
- unable to read or write
- Participant under legal guardianship (curator, guardian, legal protector)
- Dementia with rapid neurocognitive degeneration degeneration with frontal and language impairment (at the investigator's discretion).
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Interventions
COTID is a support program for people with Alzheimer's disease, designed to help them remain at home, including their primary caregiver.
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NCT06237218