周全性老年評估個案報告：多重慢性中老年病人急性入院後日常生活活動功能恢復之探討

In older patients, acute medical illness that requires hospitalization is a sentinel event that often portends disability which in turn can result in subsequent inability to live independently and perform basic activities of daily living (ADLs). Occurring in approximately one-third of older patients, hospitalization-associated disability may even emerge in spite of the successful treatment of the illness that necessitates the hospitalization. In this article, a 58-year-old case with early-on-set dementia and multimorbidities had ADL decline after an acute illness, we evaluated this patient by comprehensive geriatric assessment to identify the problems in his functional status and cognition so as to provide adequate supportive care and interdisciplinary care to prevent and manage disability. After the assessment and treatment, the patient reported significant improvement and gradually returned to his baseline functional status three months after discharge.