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The Role of Emergency Medical Services in Geriatrics: Bridging the Gap between Primary and Acute Care.
Caring for older adults is a major function of emergency medical services (EMS). Traditional EMS systems were designed to treat single acute conditions; this approach contrasts with best practices for the care of frail older adults. Care might be improved by the early identification of those who are frail and at highest risk for adverse outcomes. Paramedics are well positioned to play an import...
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Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...
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“I really enjoy the conversations I have with the elderly as part of the Doctoring course, but my comfort in interacting with them as a health care provider is still low...the more exposure I get to the elderly, however, the less averse the idea of working with older patients becomes...the most significant change in my thinking about the elderly was the acknowledgement of a couple of misconcept...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 1981
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-198106000-00015