Why the study?
Effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults are challenging crowded EDs and a strained health care system.
Introduces the first formal multidisciplinary guidelines to improve emergency department care for older adults through enhanced expertise, equipment, policies, and protocols.
EDs should adopt these guidelines to enhance care for older adults; extends prior recommendations into the first multidisciplinary implementation framework.
In the United States and around the world, effective, efficient, and reliable strategies to provide emergency care to aging adults is challenging crowded emergency departments (EDs) and a strained health care system. In response, geriatric emergency medicine (EM) clinicians, educators, and researchers collaborated with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) to develop guidelines intended to improve ED geriatric care by enhancing expertise, educational, and quality improvement expectations; equipment; policies; and protocols. These "Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines" represent the first formal society-led attempt to characterize the essential attribute of the geriatric ED and received formal approval from the boards of directors for each of the four societies in 2013 and 2014. This article is intended to introduce EM and geriatric health care providers to the guidelines, while providing proposals for educational dissemination, refinement via formal effectiveness evaluations and cost-effectiveness studies, and institutional credentialing.
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Carpenter et al. (2014) studied Emergency care for aging adults. Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines was evaluated. The Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines were developed by four major societies to improve emergency care for aging adults through enhanced expertise, equipment, policies, and protocols.
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