Emergency care

In this document, the BGS sets out five principles that should underpin front door frailty services, as well as tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process. 

This section of the BGS Delirium Hub focuses on managing delirium in specific settings and clinical situations.

Around half of people aged over 70 who are admitted to hospital as an emergency have a cognitive disorder such as dementia. This BGS position statement sets out the principles of good person-centred care for older people admitted to acute hospitals with dementia.

The SW Thames Region Spring Meeting 2021 was held on 20 May 2021

Geriatrics 4 Juniors (G4J) 2019 was held on 23 November 2019 in Manchester.

This year’s CQC State of Care builds on the July 2018 report about the way that older people in 20 English local areas experienced care as they moved between the different services they need. 

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are protections for adults who lack mental capacity to consent to, say, admission to hospital or a care home for treatment or care. Caroline Cooke and Premila Fade assess why they are being reviewed and the Law Commission's proposals.

Ten per cent of patients admitted to hospital as an emergency stay more than two weeks, using 55 per cent of all hospital bed days, and 80 per cent of that group are aged over 65 years. The average age of a hospital inpatient is over 80. 

Geriatrics is the largest specialty doing general medicine and providing acute medical care of patients admitted as emergencies. As general physicians, they share with other specialists in Acute/General Medicine the provision of the first 24-48 hours of emergency medical care of all adults.