Response

Editor – We thank the correspondents for their letter regarding our recent article Embedding comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency assessment unit: the impact of the COPE zone.¹ We share the correspondents’ enthusiasm for service development projects aimed at improving the care of frail older people admitted to hospital through timely multidisciplinary team input and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). The discrepancies in care received by older people under traditional hospital systems are well documented. The move towards bringing CGA to the ‘front door’ is backed by guidance published by the both the Royal College of Physicians and the British Geriatric Society.²,³ It is encouraging to see similar positive results in other hospitals.