Évaluation de l'autonomie et prévention des symptômes psychocomportementaux en vol

The fear that an Alzheimer's disease patient might present behavioral disorders during travel or in flight is a real concern. Such events must be prevented by taking the necessary steps after a relevant assessment of autonomy. This assessment will inevitably include an evaluation of the patient's loss of capacity to carry out activities of daily life. Three behavioral scales are particularly useful for the assessment of the Alzheimer patient wishing to travel. The short neuropsychiatric inventory or NPI-R, the Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD), and an alert score related to the states of anxiety of the elderly person. To date, due to the lack of appropriate counseling, weakened elderly subjects as well as Alzheimer's disease patients and their caregivers have had little opportunity to escape their local environment and undertake successful travel outside their own frontiers.