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Experts discuss strategies for Frailty Screening and Intervention in an emergency setting with complex older patients, and how emergency departments can meet domain three of the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure.

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Expert Panel

Karen Allen, RN, GRN
Geriatric Emergency Medicine Nurse Navigator
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

Liz Goldberg, MD, ScM
Associate Vice Chair for Research
Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado Anschutz

Kara Mc Loughlin, MSc
Research Fellow
PhD Candidate – Older Persons Rehabilitation Research
Aging Research Centre, School of Allied Health
University of Limerick

Lisa Adams Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN
Lead Nurse Scientist
Emergency Nurses Association

Moderated By

Danya Khoujah

Danya Khoujah

MBBS, MEHP
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Goals

  1. Contextualize frailty in the care of older adults in the ED
  2. Review validated frailty screening tools suitable for the ED patient
  3. Discuss the integration of frailty screening and intervention into the clinical workflow

Supporting Materials

Frailty in the Emergency Department: Screening, Intervention, and Alignment with the CMS Hospital Measure

Discover a resource that synthesizes validated screening tools, implementation examples, quality improvement initiatives, and emerging research on frailty in the ED, compiled by the webinar panellists.

CMS Age-Friendly Hospital Measure | Resources for Emergency Departments

Explore resources to help your ED meet the CMS Age-Friendly Hospital measure.

Frailty in the Geriatric ED

Listen to an expert panel discuss frailty in the geriatric ED, and why it’s an important concept in the care of older adults.

Frailty Frontline | How to Identify Frailty, and What to Do Next

Listen as Dr. Christina Shenvi disucsses the rising importance of frailty with Dr. James Van Oppen in this episode of GEMCast.

Overview of Age-Friendly Hospital Measure

Dive deeper into the five domains with a helpful PDF table listing the attestation statements for each domain.

Age-Friendly Health Systems | Guide to Recognition for Geriatric Emergency Department Accredited Sites

Dig into an in-depth examination of how GEDA Accredited sites can be recognized as Age-Friendly Health Systems thanks to the shared values of both approaches to geriatric friendly care.

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