Urgent care for older people

New horizons: urgent care for older people with frailty.

Urgent care for older people is a major public health issue and attracts much policy attention. Despite many efforts to curb demand, many older people with frailty and urgent care needs to access acute hospital services. The predominant model of care delivered in acute hospitals tends to be medically focussed, yet the evidence-based approaches that appear to be effective invoke a holistic model...

Eye care for older people

the global trend Worldwide, people are now living longer and birth rates are declining; older people are therefore making up an ever greater proportion of the world’s population. This means that the number of older people is increasing very rapidly compared to the overall growth of the global population. By 2025, there will be twice as many older people worldwide as there were in 2000 (an incre...

Health care for older people.

Acute hospital care for frail older people.

Reconsidering care for frail older people.