Greening a Geriatric Ward Reduces Functional Decline in Elderly Patients and is Positively Evaluated by Hospital Staff

GERIATRIC NURSING: A Study of the Work of Geriatric Ward Staff

Geriatric patients in an acute medical ward.

During a nine-month study 160 out of 482 bed-weeks in an acute medical ward were accounted for by 11 patients who no longer needed to be there. This was unsatisfactory both for the 11 patients concerned and for those patients requiring admission for whom the beds were blocked.

Reliability of Identification of Seniors at Risk Screening Tool in Predicting Functional and Mental Decline in Discharged Elderly Patients

Introduction: Emergency wards today are facing with an increasing numbers of older patients. Therefore, it seems important and essential to develop a short screening tool with an acceptable predictive power to identify the seniors being discharged from hospital and mean while are at risk of a decline in physical and mental performance, and thus, facing re-admission emergency wards in hospitals....

ACP Journal Club. Review: acute geriatric unit care reduces falls, delirium, and functional decline.

Review scope Included studies compared acute geriatric unit care that had ≥ 1 of 5 ACE components (patient-centered care, frequent medical review, early rehabilitation, early discharge planning, or prepared environment) with usual care in patients ≥ 65 years of age who had acute illness or injury. Exclusion criteria included elective surgery or palliative care. Primary outcomes were iatrogenic ...

Geriatric intervention in elderly patients with hip fracture in an orthopedic ward

BACKGROUND Hip fracture is a common cause of long hospital stay in the elderly. Approximately one third of these patients die within the first year. As a consequence geriatric and orthopedic collaboration (orthogeriatrics) has been organized in different ways. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of a multidisciplinary geriatric in-hospital intervention on patient outcome. METH...