Creating a Geriatric Emergency Department - A Practical Guide

An essential, experience-based, practical guide for anyone looking to improve the care of older patients in the emergency department.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Making the case for a geriatric emergency department; 2. Starting a geriatric emergency department; 3. Overcoming resistance: What to do with 'Yeah, But...'; 4. You: An approach to your older ED patients; 5. People: Adding staffing and training; 6. Processes: Implementing protocols and policies; 7. Place: Addressing the physical environment; 8. Quality improvement in the geriatric emergency department: Getting started; 9. Launching your geriatric emergency department: From first steps to accreditation; Appendix.

About the author

John G. Schumacher is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Doctoral Program in Gerontology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He holds a secondary appointment as an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).Don Melady is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship in the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Don Melady, Don (University of Toronto) Melady, Melady Don, John Schumacher, John (University of Maryland Schumacher, Schumacher John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781009017701
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0901770-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Care of the elderly, Geriatric medicine, Geriatric nursing, Medical administration & management, Accident & emergency medicine, Accident & emergency nursing, Accident and emergency nursing, Accident and emergency medicine, Medical administration and management