PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Simon Conroy
AU  - Stuart Parker
TI  - Acute geriatrics at the front door
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-350
DP  - 2017 Aug 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 350--353
VI  - 17
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/17/4/350.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/17/4/350.full
SO  - Clin Med2017 Aug 01; 17
AB  - Older people with frailty and urgent care needs are major uses of health and social care services. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is an evidence-based approach to improving their outcomes, as well as improving service outcomes. Geriatricians form a small proportion of the overall workforce and cannot address the population need alone, so all clinicians (doctors, nurses, therapists and so on) need to engage in delivering CGA as a process of care, underpinned by specific competencies – which can be developed. Delivery of this care pathway needs to be measured and improved as rigorously as campaigns like those for improving sepsis or eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.