Resumen
In the emergency department (ED), frailty represents the vulnerability of an individual because of their underlying health status. An older patient can be identified as frail by using a frailty index, the Clinical Frailty Scale, a frailty phenotype, or a screening measure such as the Identification of Seniors at Risk (ISAR). In the ED, the frail older person should have an interdisciplinary assessment, a thoughtful review of their medications, a screen for other geriatric syndromes, and a care plan that addresses the individual's needs, includes the patient's goals and preferences, and follows the patient beyond the ED.
| Idioma original | English |
|---|---|
| Páginas (desde-hasta) | 369-386 |
| Número de páginas | 18 |
| Publicación | Clinics in Geriatric Medicine |
| Volumen | 34 |
| N.º | 3 |
| DOI | |
| Estado | Published - ago. 2018 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:Dr. K. Rockwood is President and Chief Science Officer of DGI Clinical, which has contracts with pharma on individualized outcome measurement. In 2017 he attended an advisory board meeting with Lundbeck. Otherwise all personal fees are for invited guest lectures and academic symposia. He is Associate Director of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, with additional funding from the Alzheimer Society of Canada and several other charities, as well as from Pfizer Canada and Sanofi Canada. He receives career support from the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research, and research support from the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, the Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Fund and the Fountain Family Innovation Fund of the QEII Health Sciences Center Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Geriatrics and Gerontology