Que deviennent nos vieux hyperactifs ? Le trouble déficit de l'attention/hyperactivité chez la personne âgée

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that starts in childhood and often persists into adulthood. Little is known about the course of the disorder through middle-age. The possibility of a persistence of ADHD into late adulthood has emerged over the last 5 years, with the first studies examining the prevalence, the clinical characteristics, the comorbidities and the burden of ADHD in older people. The aims of this review are to describe the effect of age on the prevalence and the symptoms of ADHD through adulthood, to report the results of the first systematic studies on ADHD in the elderly, and to discuss the possible connections between ADHD and later-life cognitive decline.