Maeker Éric, Maeker-Poquet Bérengère
Court séjour gériatrique, unité Covid, centre hospitalier de Calais, 1601 boulevard des Justes, 62100 Calais, France.
Court séjour gériatrique, unité Covid, centre hospitalier de Calais, 1601 boulevard des Justes, 62100 Calais, France.
Soins Gerontol. 2021 May-Jun;26(149):10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.sger.2021.03.003. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
COVID-19 has hit the entire world since late 2019 and is starting to be medically better known. Its clinical presentation is atypical in the elderly. Acute confusion is a sometimes unrecognized warning sign. It is also an element of severity of COVID-19. This viral infection should be systematically investigated for any confusional syndrome in the elderly population.