Podcast: Improving older adult care in the geriatric emergency department
The nation’s population of older adults is increasing but the system of emergency medicine isn’t optimally designed for their specific, complex and multi-layered needs. Kevin Biese, M.D., co-director of the Division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine with the University of North Carolina School Of Medicine, speaks with Marie Cleary Fishman, AHA’s vice president of clinical quality, about what emergency medicine can do to better serve aging patients. LISTEN NOW.
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