ESCAPE STUDY : A Specific Tool for Detecting Nursing Home Residents (With or Without Dementia) at Risk of Escaping for the Use of Caregivers: Psychometric Properties and Definition of Risk Levels

Residents' escapes occur even if most of the nursing homes (NH) have set up specific devices to prevent from this risk. Therefore, the need to develop and validate a specific tool to assess the risk of escaping was obvious to the working group, aim at emphasizing patient centered-care by the nurses' staff and help to develop personalized devices.

Aim of the study: develop and validate a specific tool to score the risk of escaping in NH residents Study design: Observational prospective multicentered cohort study Nursing homes volunteer to participate Location: Provence Alpes Cotes d'Azur Region ( South East of France) Population: 4050 NH residents. Duration: two years, each resident included is followed up for one year Measures: Nursing homes characteristics, residents characteristics ( social and from medical record); Escape Scale (25 items with a Yes/no answer; filled up during a nurses staff meeting for each resident and every three months; 3 sub scales: resident environmental items, social items, and medical items.