TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bretelle,Fannie
AU  -  Nicot,Pierre
AU  -  Arcani,Robin
AU  -  Horowitz,Tatiana
AU  -  Comon,Martin
AU  -  Garrido,Victoria
AU  -  Daumas,Aurelie
AU  -  Bonin Guillaume,Sylvie
TI  - Geriatric failure to thrive: Between illusory diagnosis and clinical reality
PY  - 2024///.
							
N1  - 54
N2  - Geriatric failure to thrive, a controversial French concept not present in the international literature, was first defined by Jean Carrié in 1956. It is described as a process of aging and physical and psychological decline associated with advanced age, which manifests 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 care eventually led to the diagnosis of infective endocarditis with gastrointestinal cancer complicated by a major depressive episode. This case prompts us to consider 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
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-geriatrie-et-psychologie-neuropsychiatrie-du-vieillissement-2024-2-page-155?lang=en
ER  -