The four different approaches to establishing geriatric emergency department services vary in the amount of resources required. Over the past five years, four primary models for geriatric emergency ...

More emergency departments are helping to manage the care of medically complex older adults. Among older adults, frequent utilizers of the emergency department tend to have multiple comorbidities, ...

Cleveland Clinic’s geriatric emergency department model led to an overall reduction in admissions of older ED patients of 42%, and reduced the odds of admission for older ED observational patients by ...

Geriatric emergency departments are being added to hospitals nationwide as COVID-19 and a rapidly aging population illuminate these patients’ vulnerability and distinct needs. An estimated 10,000 baby ...

Many emergency departments are currently unable to provide care for geriatric patients that meets best practices and guidelines recommended by several major medical organizations, but a panel ...

“We are so honored to be able to provide this service to our geriatric patients,” said Dag Shapshak, M.D., co-director of the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Program. “For a long time, we have had ...

Saint Louis University’s Gateway Geriatric Education Center develops leading-edge education for current and future geriatric professionals. It has been funded by the Health Resources and Services ...

Currently, the Huffington Center on Aging administers a NIA Cell and Molecular Biology of Aging Training grant, which supports the training of five predoctoral and five postdoctoral trainees. Fifteen ...