Alter the space to make ED senior-friendly (Part 2)
Because the needs of elders differ from the needs of younger patients, hospitals should make changes to create an emergency department geared to the needs of seniors.
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Emergency Department Designed to Focus on Issues Faced by Seniors
When patients over age 65 come into the emergency department at St. Mary Mercy Livonia Hospital they are triaged to a 14-bed dedicated senior emergency department.
Continue ReadingThe Senior ER
There is a pretty good write up on Senior ERs on a great new blog called Next Avenue– it is very well done and is definitely worth a look. I like their emphasis on aging as a developmental reality.
Continue ReadingAging Parents, Hospitals, and Exercise
Anyone with an aging parent knows how frustrating it can be for that parent to be released from the hospital after a few days confined mostly to bed. Even if a mother or father is in pretty good shape and not terribly ill, regaining previous mobility a…
Continue ReadingHow to Survive a Hospital Stay
Way back in 1977, on the day I was to begin an exciting new job, I instead wound up in a hospital with, among other symptoms, a high fever and unbearable abdominal pain. Soon after my arrival, I lay on…
Continue ReadingHospitals in Cleveland Introduce ER’s Focused on Senior Care
A hospital in Cleveland is the latest to create a separate emergency room dedicated to serving older adults, The Plain Dealer reports. How wonderful that the first senior-friendly emergency room, at Holy Cross Hospital in suburban Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC set a high bar and that other institutions are aspiring to reach and exceed.
Continue ReadingGreat Expectations
Well it has been a pretty good week all told. I started out by flying to Omaha where I met up with Trinity Health’s Sue Penoza, we drove north to Sioux City, Iowa, stopping for lunch in Blair, Neb., at a really nice down home Mexican restaurant on main street.
Once in Sioux Falls, I did a TV interview about the Senior ER innovation and a couple of days later Eden legend Nickie Bigley sent me a note telling me that she saw the clip on her local TV station.
Continue ReadingSenior ER… It’s the Future Baby
I will be meeting with policy makers in the state of Michigan this week. Topic 1 will be… “How can we deliver better emergency care to older people?” I have an answer to that, “We can create ER’s that are optimized to meet the needs of older people.” We know how to do it in […]
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