Geriatric Day Hospitals Page 1 160 Geriatric Day Hospitals Neil D. Gillespie1 and Irene D.
Turpie2 1 University of Dundee, Dundee, UK, and 2 McMaster University, Hamilton, ON …

Background: The proportion of older people needing acute care is rapidly growing, thereby
posing an increased burden on the acute care chain. The aim of this study is to gain more …

Howard Bergman1, 2, François Béland1, 3, and Anne Perrault1, 2 1Solidage:
McGill/Université de Montréal Research Group on Integrated Services for Older Persons …

Frailty is the special mandate of the geriatrician, or ought to be. The essence of management
in frailty is to embrace the complexity of the patients and their needs for care. When we do …

Background People aged 65+ accounted for an estimated 20%(3.6 million out of 18.3
million) of attendees to English Emergency Departments (ED) in 2012/13; this population …

Frailty is a prevalent condition in urgent care settings associated with an increased risk of
adverse events. Frailty commonly presents on the acute medical take in the form of geriatric …

Frail older people are at risk of long hospital stays, and there is growing emphasis on
identifying alternative care pathways in the community. Rapid decisions to discharge older …

Over the past two decades there has been a marked change in global age demographics,
with the number of over-60s increasing by 82% and the number of centenarians by 715 …

Managing patients with frailty is an increasing element of acute hospital care, constituting
around 40% of acute hospital inpatients. Up to half of these patients may be approaching the …

This report comes at a time when the NHS has undergone profound changes in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic. The unprecedented events of 2020/21–and the extraordinary …