Joël Belmin

TL;DR: High-protein oral supplementation and complementary enteral nutrition can improve the clinical status of certain under- or malnourished elderly subjects and Associated early with rehabilitation therapy, nutritional assistance can be expected to improve the functional independence of the elderly patient.

TL;DR: Active promotion of vaccination uptake should be implemented by health authorities and targeted to older adults, and other means, including the use of educational tools and guidelines to improve practice, should be more widely employed.

TL;DR: De facon generale, the strategie therapeutique de the maladie coronaire doit reposer non sur l'âge reel, mais sur une analyse indiuiduelle qui prend en compte l'existence of comorbidites, le risque iatrogene, l'esperance and the qualite of uie du patient.

TL;DR: The nurses' strikes of 1988 did not induce a clear-cut increase in mortality in this population of elderly patients, and results fail to provide answers to the difficult ethical problems created by such stoppages.

TL;DR: Novel oral anticoagulants (NOACs) are promising treatments especially due to a lower risk of intracerebral haemorrhage, however, their prescriptions should take into account renal function and cognitive function (for adherence to treatment), and studies including very old patients with several comorbidities in 'real life' are necessary to evaluate tolerance of NOACs in this population.