Design A qualitative descriptive design was used to interview aging adults with at least two chronic conditions who made three or more visits to the emergency department within a year. Participants/Subjects The eight-person sample was 88% female and 75% white, with an average age of 54 years....
Background: Adults 65 years and older currently constitute roughly 10% of the total population in Orange County, North Carolina (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010a). With the aging of the Boomer population (e.g. people born between the years 1946-1964), and the desirability of Orange County as ...
Older adults are not the same as younger adults, and the age-related changes that are present will affect the care provided. To provide compassionate, quality care, health care professionals need to be aware of the changes associated with aging. In fact, the Joint Commission on Accreditation ...
The Elderly Affairs Division (EAD), a division of the Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu, is your local Area Agency on Aging. Its purpose is to plan, support and advocate for programs to promote the well-being of Oahu's older adults and caregivers and ...
345 Integration of care for older adults: an evaluation analysis of the clinical pathways from the emergency department BACKGROUND. There is an urgency globally to create novel healthcare models for the older adult population considering the ever-growing demographic. Ireland... S O'Neill,D Linehan...
This study aims to assess the association of HRQoL with time to first ED visit and/or frequent ED use in older adults during four-year period and if this association differs in 66–80 and 80+ age groups. Methods Data from the Swedish National Study on Aging and Care-Blekinge of wave ...
Context: The recent increase in population aging has implications in every level of health, including acute care in an emergency department context. In order to allocate care for those in the highest risk of mortality, factors associated with lower survival in older adults that assist to emergency...
Editor's Note A quality improvement protocol at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical campus resulted in a 48.8% decrease in the number of pediatric urology patients returning to the emergency department (ED) unnecessarily within 30 days of surgery. According to a December 2 university report...
Background: Internationally, older adults visit the ED at a rate higher than other age groups. Little attention has been given to ED care for older people with dementia, although concern for such care is growing with the increasing number of individuals worldwide affected by this significant disa...
The aging of the U.S population will have impact on hospital Emergency Departments (ED) nationwide. To date, ED research has focused on utilization rates and acuity without considering issues of burden and stress that emergency physicians may experience caring for the increasing numbers of older ...