Assessment of an Automated Telesurveillance System on Serious Falls Prevention in an Elderly Suffering From Dementia Specialized Care Unit: the URCC (GET-BETTER)

University of Limoges (UL)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mentally Ill Old Subjects

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01561872

I11 005

Details and patient eligibility

About

2 URCC in the Limousin region will be equipped with the automated telesurveillance system. Patient will be selected by ward's geriatrician and randomized into two groups after informed consent. One group will have cameras installed and the other will not and will act as a comparison group. Patient will be assessed twice during the study, at admission in (inclusion visit) and at outcome from the URCC (end of study visit). Each assessment implies a standard geriatric assessment, a fall questionnaire, a Neuropsychiatric inventory for behavioral disturbances and a quality of life questionnaire (EQ5D). Every fall will be considered as adverse events and will therefore be listed along the study and characterized in types and number.

Enrollment: 350 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient aged more than 65 years old
• Patient admitted in Limoges or Brive's URCC
• Patient informed consent and/or proxy consent
• Patient covered by the French health insurance

Exclusion criteria

• Patient without national health insurance coverage
• Patient with a short term prognosis pathology

Trial design

350 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Description:

Rooms of the patient of the "intervention group" will be equipped of cameras

reference group

Description:

Patient in the "non-equipped" group will have usual care