Annually, almost half of American adults over age 65 have an ED visit. Although adults over age 65 represented only 15% of ED visits in 2014, they accounted for 48% of hospital admissions from the ED. For almost 30 years, emergency medicine research has demonstrated that increasingly busy physicians, advanced practice providers, and nurses miss prevalent geriatric syndromes like delirium, dementia, short-term fall risk, and polypharmacy – the consequence of which is preventable ED returns compounded with diminished patient satisfaction scores. In response, geriatric emergency medicine leaders have emerged since the mid-1990’s and in 2013 published guidelines intended to “geriatricize” EDs of all sizes and geographic locale, guidelines that were subsequently endorsed by multiple emergency medicine and geriatric organizations’ boards of directors (https://tinyurl.com/GEDGuidelines19). 

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