Follow-on and rehabilitation care: people aged 70 or over make half of their stays
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Source: Studies and Results No. 943, December 2015
Author: Fabienne Coquelet (DREES)
Patients 70 years of age or older are the most likely to undertake follow-on care and rehabilitation (SSR) hospital stays. In 2011, they accounted for more than half of the year’s SSR stays, or 700,000 stays for nearly 535,000 people. Half of them are between 80 and 89 years old. This is mostly full hospitalisation. Two thirds of those affected are women.
Bone fractures, arthropathies, walking difficulties and dementia are the main pathologies behind these hospitalisations. Patients benefit from rehabilitation activities that focus on joint mobilisation and displacement (reeducation, rehabilitation and walking or walking training with technical aids and transfers).
At the end of SSR’s stays, more than two-thirds of people return to their homes or enter a replacement home (accommodation facility for the elderly, retirement homes, etc.). 13 % of stays end with a referral to a medical or surgical department and 5 % with a death.
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