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

Falls constitute the greatest cause of loss of autonomy among people aged over 65 and are often the cause of injuries leading to hospitalization and therefore significant costs. Additionally, people who have fallen before are at greater risk of falling again. People aged 65 and over with dementia fall 3 times more than people without the condition. The physical and psychological consequences of these falls in patients with dementia accelerate their loss of autonomy and ultimately lead to admission to an institution.

Occupational therapy assessment in the patient's home is an effective approach to reducing falls in the general population. Indeed, the occupational therapist's care consists of carrying out a complete assessment to highlight the links that exist between a person and their abilities, their occupations in the broad sense and the environment in which their occupations take place. The occupational therapist then proposes a personalized intervention plan (objectives and means) and follow-up which may consist of the installation of technical and technological aids, home design, advice and information for people and their caregivers.

The COTID (Community Occupational Therapist in Dementia) program is a tool for describing the stages of an occupational therapy program based on evidence (scenario-based), according to a systemic approach focused on older people with dementia and their caregivers. This has been validated and widely used in the Netherlands since 2009. Indeed, it has shown its effectiveness in terms of successfully keeping elderly people with dementia at home but also in preventing the risk of caregiver burnout. through systemic care for the couple.

Inclusion criteria

• 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 criteria

• 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).