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In contrast, for the remaining 26% of the patients (Group 2) who had functional or intellectual frailty, a thorough geriatric evaluation was performed during a stay in the hospital geriatric department before any decision on treatment with chemotherapy was taken.

In 1993, a medical journal reported on a study of bed alarms conducted in the Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment Unit of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York: "Apart from preventing falls, bed alarms may be beneficial in other ways.

Seniors who have already suffered a fall may be fearful of physical activity, says Celeste Bocian, program director of Specialized Ambulatory Geriatric Evaluation (SAGE) at Sherman Oaks Hospital.

Method Subjects Participants in the study were veterans referred to the Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) Program of the University Drive Veterans Administration Medical Center (Pittsburgh, Pa) for evaluation.

If a department of geriatric oncology is established, it must be carefully evaluated to determine whether the quality of care is improved and whether patients do better than those treated in specialised departments (medical oncology but also for example digestive or thoracic oncology, or head and neck department); and (4) in some hospitals, mobile geriatric teams are in charge of the geriatric evaluation of elderly patients in surgical or medical departments.

``You have to take into account what the relationships are, what the personalities are,'' said Celeste Bocian, program director of Specialized Ambulatory Geriatric Evaluation at Sherman Oaks Hospital.

In our centre, a mobile geriatric team (MGT) is in charge of the geriatric evaluation of elderly patients hospitalised in the surgical or medical departments.

The expanded care includes geriatric evaluations, nursing home care, adult day health care, and other types of home health care, including respite care.