Fannie Bretelle, Pierre Nicot, Robin Arcani, Tatiana Horowitz, Martin Comon, Victoria Garrido, Aurélie Daumas, Sylvie Bonin-Guillaume
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Abstract
The geriatric failure to thrive, a controversial French concept not present in the international literature, was first characterized by Jean Carrié in 1956. It is described as a process of aging and physical and psychological decline associated with advanced age, manifesting as a pronounced overall deterioration. In this case report, we present the case of an 88-year-old patient, admitted to a general medicine service for geriatric failure to thrive, whose management eventually leads to the diagnosis of endocarditis with digestive cancer complicated by a characterized depressive episode. This case prompts us to consider the geriatric failure to thrive with extreme caution and challenges the legitimacy of such a diagnosis in the context of an aging population and the progress of medical sciences.
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D''une qualité scientifique reconnue cette revue est, la première revue francophone gériatrique et psychologique indexée dans les principales bases de données internationales. Elle couvre tous les aspects médicaux, psychologiques, sanitaires et sociaux liés au suivi et à la prise en charge de la personne âgée.
Que vous soyez psychologues, neurologues, psychiatres, gériatres, gérontologues,... vous trouverez à travers cette approche originale et unique, un veritable outil de formation, de réflexion et d''échanges indispensable à votre pratique professionnelle.
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