Age Related Geriatric Medicine: Relavance of Special Skills of Geriatric Medicine for Elderly People Aged 75 and Over Admitted to Hospital as Medical Emergencies and Involvement of Specialists in their Care

New Ideas about Death and Bereavement Associated with Complaints by Relatives

“…An analysis of complaints to a department of medicine for older people was conducted to see whether the ideas about death and bereavement described above have relevance to the feelings of relatives and caregivers. This department has an age‐related admission process 6 with about 4,500 discharges and deaths a year. In the year studied there were 857 deaths in the acute wards.…”

How effective are acute geriatric wards at admitting geriatric patients?

“…1 Systems to ensure that appropriate patients are admitted vary from using age as a proxy for appropriateness to selecting patients using specific characteristics suggesting need for geriatric care. 2,3 To assess the effectiveness of access to geriatric care of appropriate patients, an analysis was made of how many hospital bed days in general medicine and geriatric medicine were used by acutely admitted patients with an International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) code that would unambiguously signify the need for geriatric care, R54 'Senility' . The use of this code varies from hospital to hospital.…”

Improving the emergency medical treatment of older nursing-home residents

“…The prognosis for some older people after hospitalization, particularly emergency admission, is poor [12,14,16,17,20,22,24,25,27,30,32,41,57,73,74], given the attendant risk of further complications [12,18,30,38,40,42,44]. Hence, the need to review how best to manage acutely ill nursing-home residents [75] (especially those over 85).…”