Nowadays managing elderly acute medical admissions is a big challenge in hospitals as the
numbers of patients at age 75 and above admitting to acute medical beds are rapidly …

Abstract The Royal College of Physicians and its Future Hospitals Commission has a
renewed focus on general internal medicine. But in 2015, most is in effect either acute …

The UK population is ageing with increases in both the median age and the numbers and
proportion of older people. Fastest growth has been in those aged 85 years and over with …

Background: An initiative to transform health and social care across the Leeds Healthcare
Economy has developed in response to recent demographic, political and economic …

25 improve support provided to primary medical and community care by offering
consultation services within primary care group practices, home assessments when …

Readers of Age and Ageing will be well aware that systematic reviews reporting on> 6500
patients in 13 well-conducted RCTs have demonstrated that comprehensive geriatric …

Frail older people are at risk of long hospital stays, and there is growing emphasis on
identifying alternative care pathways in the community. Rapid decisions to discharge older …

The number of older patients admitted to acute hospitals has increased; however, their
needs are heterogeneous and there is no gold‐standard method of triaging them towards …

Most Western health services are seeking to reduce reliance on secondary care services
where appropriate, whilst expanding primary care services [1, 2]. Much of the focus has …

The development of geriatric medicine has been widely credited to Dr Marjorie Warren who
worked in the West Middlesex Hospital, United Kingdom in the 1940s, rehabilitating old …