Resources and Training

Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group

Resources and Training

Resources

Statement on Minimum Standards for the Care of Older People in Emergency Departments

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White Paper on the Care of Older People with Acute illness and Injury in the Emergency Department

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Latest news and articles

The Clinical Frailty Scale

25 January 2024

Rebecca Rigney The proportion of older adults is increasing worldwide. Currently, there are over 1 million people in ... Read more

Geriatric Care at Emergency Department still a night mare

20 January 2024

John Bosco Kamugisha, Uganda Background In Uganda, geriatric emergency care is a specialty that hasn’t been fully dev... Read more

Geriatric Giants in Emergency Medicine

15 January 2024

Chung Wai Mun, Malaysia “Geriatric giants” or also known as geriatric syndromes are a collection of common clinical c... Read more

First National GEM Seminar in Singapore

09 January 2024

Ranjeev Kumar, Singapore Tan Tock Seng Hospital with the support of Section of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM) und... Read more

Understanding Trauma and Older People: Challenges, Prevention, and Care

03 January 2024

Sai Surendar, India Older Persons, Geriatric or Silver trauma all refer to injuries sustained by older adults, typica... Read more

Geriatric Care at Emergency Departments still a nightmare.

13 October 2023

In Uganda, geriatric emergency care is a specialty that hasn’t been fully developed and older patients are always see... Read more

Geriatric Emergency Medicine Online Forum on Management of Critically Ill Older persons in Malaysia

03 August 2023

With improved healthcare service, increasing life expectancy will leads to population aging and with that, it is expe... Read more

$The Schwartz\Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute Mentorship Opportunities$

The Schwartz\Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute Mentorship Opportunities

28 July 2023

Older adults are the fastest growing segment of the population globally, and their care in Emergency Departments (ED)... Read more

A Community Paramedic Model for Older Adults in Long Term Care

25 July 2023

A fundamental difference between community paramedicine – an emerging practice within the paramedic profession – vers... Read more

Geriatric Immersive Simulation

17 July 2023

The hope is that through this activity participants build empathy and are better able to understand and appreciate ho... Read more

Transforming Geriatric ED Care Through Immersive Simulations

14 July 2023

I work in a teaching hospital, in a town called Sherbrooke, in Canada. We are a level 2 geriatric ACEP accredited eme... Read more

End-of-Life Care Across the Spectrum of Life

01 July 2023

At the International Conference on Emergency Medicine held in Amsterdam, two groups that don’t often overlap came tog... Read more

From Gerodontology to Geriatric Emergency Medicine

23 January 2023

Liz Moloney, Ireland I am a geriatrician working in the ED of a city centre hospital in Cork city, Ireland. My offici... Read more

EUSEM Geriatrics EM Section

20 January 2023

James Van Oppen, United Kingdom The EUSEM Geriatrics EM section had a very busy 2022! We are pleased to continue our ... Read more

Dignity for Older People in the ED

16 January 2023

Rosa McNamara, Ireland Worldwide crowding in EDs has been highlighted as a threat to the core mission of EM as highli... Read more

Enhanced geriatric support at the ED in Hong Kong

10 January 2023

Patrick Leung, Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of the regions in the world where people enjoy longevity. Due to the high p... Read more

Hip Fracture Registry

08 January 2023

James Wright, Australia The Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) is one of many hip fracture reg... Read more

EMS Assessment of falls risk, nutritional risk, and cognitive impairment among older patients

05 January 2023

Eeva Saario, Marja Mäkinen, Finland Professor Maaret Castrén's research group has developed a risk assessment method ... Read more

Video Pocketbook of Emergency Medicine

14 December 2022

Eoghan Colgan, Continulus, United Kingdom The “Video Pocketbook of Emergency Medicine”: is a collection of lectures o... Read more

The life of older people in war torn Ukraine

08 September 2022

Denys ShchetkovskyIreland On the 24th of February, Russia began a full scale war, invading Ukraine. Russian military... Read more

ED in the Home (EDITH)

08 September 2022

Cliona Doyle, Ireland Our Emergency Department (ED) sees over 60,000 annual attendances with 49% of these are aged 6... Read more

Prehospital transfer support

06 September 2022

Will Jones (Business Analyst) and Jay Banerjee (Consultant in Geriatric Emergency Medicine) United Kingdom We have b... Read more

Fellowship in Syncope and Falls Related disorders

05 September 2022

Mustafa MehmoodIreland Was it a fall? Did the patient black out? Can I explain how the patient ended up with that de... Read more

The first European Geriatric Emergency Medicine Guidelines

01 September 2022

Bas de Groot Netherlands In 2021 the European Taskforce for Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM) presented the first E... Read more

A day in the life of an Occupational Therapist in the Emergency Department

17 December 2021

Íde O’Shaughnessy Ireland Over two years ago, I joined the Occupational Therapy department in University Hospital Li... Read more

Geriatric Emergency Medicine in Hong Kong

17 December 2021

Dr Patrick Leung Chairperson of GEM Subcommittee Hong Kong College of Emergency Medicine Hong Kong is one of the mos... Read more

Geriatric Emergency Medicine at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital

17 December 2021

Mark Er and David Madzinga Australia Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital (HKH) is a major metropolitan hospital located on ... Read more

CARED programme Ng Teng Fong General Hospital Singapore

17 December 2021

Colin OngSingapore Ng Teng Fong General Hospital in Singapore has rolled out an initiative which puts in place case ... Read more

PACMAN in Sydney Local Health District

17 December 2021

Dr Sinéad Ní Bhraonáin Australia In Sydney Local Health District, we recognise that coming to an Emergency Departmen... Read more

Delirium Management in the Emergency Department – an Irish National Approach

16 December 2021

Kara McLoughlin, Susan O’Reilly, Louise Martin, Niamh O’Regan, Suzanne Timmons, Rachel Doyle Ireland There is a stea... Read more

Pathfinder

19 July 2021

Paul Maloney, Ireland Member of the IFEM Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group Read more

ED physician-based nursing home assistance

17 July 2021

Claus-Henrik Rasmussen, Nina Andersen, Søren Mikkelsen, Mikkel Brabrand, Annmarie Lassen As an alternative to ambulan... Read more

Developing a Provincial Emergency Department Delirium Pathway

14 July 2021

Britanny Ellis Delirium is a commonly missed diagnosis in emergency departments throughout the world, and this is as... Read more

Value-based care of older people

10 July 2021

Maaret Castrén, Lauri Mäki Long-term residential care facility (LTRCF) residents are often transferred to emergency ... Read more