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, ...

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 ...

High-risk older patients seen by geriatric-focused nurse practitioners (NPs) in the emergency department (ED) had a 10.3% shorter hospital stay than those who were not seen by an NP, according to a ...

Care huddle: Every morning clinicians and other care providers participate in a huddle where they discuss the status and care plans of patients in the Geriatric Emergency Department at Mount Sinai ...

When San Diego resident Susan Nelson, 69, went to the geriatric emergency department at UC San Diego Health last year, she noticed some positive new accommodations that she hadn’t experienced during ...

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 ...