Current Trends in Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Joseph H Kahn; Brendan G Magauran Jr; Jonathan S Olshaker; Kalpana N Shankar

doi:10.1016/j.emc.2016.04.014

Current Trends in Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2016 Aug;34(3):435-52. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2016.04.014.

Authors

Joseph H Kahn¹, Brendan G Magauran Jr², Jonathan S Olshaker², Kalpana N Shankar²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Electronic address: Joseph.kahn@bmc.org.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 1 Boston Medical Center Place, Boston, MA 02118, USA.

PMID: 27475008
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2016.04.014

Abstract

The number of geriatric visits to United States emergency departments continues to rise. This article reviews demographics, statistics, and future projections in geriatric emergency medicine. Included are discussions of US health care spending, geriatric emergency departments, prehospital care, frailty of geriatric patients, delirium, geriatric trauma, geriatric screening and prediction tools, medication safety, long-term care, and palliative care.

Keywords: Geriatric emergency medicine; Geriatric screening; Geriatric trauma; Palliative care; US health spending.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Aged / statistics & numerical data
Delirium / diagnosis
Emergency Medical Services / statistics & numerical data*
Emergency Service, Hospital / statistics & numerical data
Geriatrics / methods
Geriatrics / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
United States / epidemiology