Acute care hospital at different levels of intensity: the role of Geriatrician

Abstract The traditional model of care is based on “disease-centered” management that requires the organization of the hospital in specialized wards, to which the patient is assigned for the main disease. The growing need to optimize economical and human resources and to promote a global approach to the patient has led to the setting up of the intensity of care model. It is a health system based on a “patient-centered” approach, where the hospital is organized in departments dedicated to patients with homogenous needs of care. In Italy, intensity of care model is currently being tested in the hospital organization, where three levels of intensity are proposed: low, medium and high. The purpose of the following review is to describe the role and importance of the Geriatrician in each of these care settings and to highlight the contradiction of a National Health System which promotes the geriatric approach to all types of patients, but does not invest in the formation and integration of the figure of the Geriatrician in clinical practice, condemning it to marginalization or even extinction..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Aging clinical and experimental research - 30(2018), 7 vom: 21. Feb., Seite 703-712

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liguori, Ilaria [VerfasserIn]
Russo, Gennaro [VerfasserIn]
Aran, Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Bulli, Giulia [VerfasserIn]
Curcio, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Della-Morte, David [VerfasserIn]
Gargiulo, Gaetano [VerfasserIn]
Testa, Gianluca [VerfasserIn]
Ungar, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Cacciatore, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Bonaduce, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Abete, Pasquale [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute care hospital
Geriatrician
Level of care intensity

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© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

doi:

10.1007/s40520-018-0920-2

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SPR036614467