New start for older people's care

Urgent care demand in England is rising faster than predicted. Of 18.3 million first attendees to emergency departments (EDs) in England in 2012/13, 3.6 million (20%) were aged over 65 years. This population is at high risk of hospital admission following ED attendance, which can be regarded as a 'sentinel event' that heralds an intensive period of health and social care service use. Older people who access urgent care services tend to have multiple comorbidities, and many have cognitive and sensory impairments, all of which complicate their clinical assessments..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Emergency nurse - 22(2015), 9, Seite 13

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thompson, Deborah [VerfasserIn]
Conroy, Simon [Sonstige Person]

Links:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
search.proquest.com

Themen:

Cognition & reasoning
Comorbidity
Emergency Service, Hospital - utilization
Health Services for the Aged - organization & administration
Older people
Patient admissions
State Medicine - organization & administration

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1960027069