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New horizons
— urgent care for older people with frailty | | Author(s) | Simon P Conroy, Sarah Turpin |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 45, no 5, September 2016 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, September 2016 |
| Pages | pp 579-586 |
| Source | www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Acute illness ; Medical care ; Accident & emergency depts ; Health [elderly] ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Urgent care for older people is a major public health issue and attracts much policy attention. Despite many efforts to curb demand, many older people with frailty and urgent care needs must be able to access acute hospital services. The predominant model of care delivered in acute hospitals tends to be medically focussed, yet the evidence-based approaches that appear to be effective invoke a holistic model of care, delivered by interdisciplinary teams embedding geriatric competencies into their service. This article reviews the role for holistic care - known as Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in the research literature - and how it can be used as an organising framework to guide future iterations of acute services, to be better able to meet the multifaceted needs of older people. The focus is on aged care in emergency departments and acute medical units, covering the first 72 hours of an older person with frailty's contact with an acute hospital. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170106224 A |
| Classmark | CHA: LK: LD6: CC: IK: 4C: 64A |
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