Big news! @CMSgov issued a proposed rule to encourage hospital systems incorporate ACEP Members's Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) framework among other principles from the partner organizations.

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Read more: gedcollaborative.com/news/cms-propo…

Becoming a GEDC member includes a wealth of benefits and resources that will help you evolve care for older adult patients in your #emergencydepartment . Here's what a GEDC membership has to offer: gedcollaborative.com/membership/

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Mark your calendars for May 6 @ 3 p.m. ET! We're collaborating with @NYUNICHE for our webinar, 'Nursing Education in the Geriatric ED.' Participants will learn more about the specific educational needs of ED nurses providing care to older adults.
Register: gedcollaborative.com/event/nursing-…

Assessing falls among the older adults in the ED can be challenging, but EDs have the opportunity to intervene & prevent recurrent falls.

This Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine article outlines the top 10 considerations: gedcollaborative.com/jgem/top-10-th…

A recent Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine editorial by GEDC Core Faculty Member Dr. Mike Malone offers insights on changing the illness trajectory of older adult patients and provides additional commentary on a recent JGEM article about the InterRAI ED screener. 

Read it here: gedcollaborative.com/jgem/the-inter…

Elder mistreatment affects 1 in 10 older adults, but only 1 in 1000 older adults presenting in the ED are diagnosed with elder mistreatment. We have a toolkit for EDs to address that imbalance, created by EDC. Access it here: gedcollaborative.com/toolkit/elder-…

PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY: The co-editors-in-chief of Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine have issued a call for original research manuscripts and clinical case reports related to emergency care of older adults.

Learn more about publishing in this scholarly journal: gedcollaborative.com/news/journal-o…

Implementing the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department resources in your ED can help reduce the number of missed opportunities to identify cases of elder mistreatment. These feasibility studies demonstrate their efficacy and value. Read more: gedcollaborative.com/article/emed-f…

ED care providers are uniquely positioned to identify and respond to mistreatment among older adult patients. The Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit includes interactive modules to support ED clinicians in this role. Access them here: gedcollaborative.com/course/elder-m…

It's #NationalPhysicians Week, and we're incredibly proud of the physicians in the GEDC community. Some of those physicians are presenting in today's webinar, cohosted with @EfficientCME. 

It's not too late to create an EfficientCME account and register: gedcollaborative.com/event/a-guide-…

For ED clinicians who have completed the Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department toolkit and want to learn more, we offer five additional modules covering relevant topics in the field.

Find the Critical Topics in Elder Mistreatment modules here: gedcollaborative.com/course/critica…

Happy #NationalCertifiedNursesDay to the nurses who serve as geriatric champions in EDs all over the world. We provide educational resources that assist nurses in their care of older adult patients. Our top GED Nurse Champion Resources are here:  gedcollaborative.com/article/ged-nu…

Do your ED's imaging protocols need to adjust now that patients may be presenting with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA)? Save the date for our next expert panel webinar (3/25), cohosted with EfficientCME, to find out.

Registration details: gedcollaborative.com/event/a-guide-…

Do your ED's imaging protocols need to adjust now that patients may be presenting with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA)? Save the date for our next expert panel webinar (3/25), cohosted with EfficientCME, to find out.

Registration details: gedcollaborative.com/event/a-guide-…

🧰 TOOLKIT | Today is World Delirium Awareness Day. @TheGEDC's Delirium Management Implementation Toolkit provides resources to inform & guide changes that can be implemented within your ED to provide better care for those patients w/ #delirium :
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Visits to the ED are serious. Add #Delirium to the mix, and those visits can be even more traumatic for older patients. Learn about delirium and how to improve #BrainHealth outcomes in this video from AARP & The Geriatric Emergency Department Collaborative: gedcollaborative.com/article/brain-…
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In the latest episode of GEMCast, join Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA, FACEP and Dr. Cameron Gettel as they talk about a paper that provides the first benchmarks for emergency care process outcomes in geriatric EDs compared with nongeriatric EDs. Tune in: gedcollaborative.com/podcast/an-out…

Do your ED's imaging protocols need to adjust now that patients may be presenting with amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA)? Save the date for our next expert panel webinar (3/25), cohosted with EfficientCME, to find out.

Registration details: gedcollaborative.com/event/a-guide-…

ED boarding, is especially detrimental for older adult patients. A recent Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine study compares boarding between a rural & and an urban community hospital, finding that the rural ED had a larger proportion of boarders. Read the full article here: gedcollaborative.com/jgem/boarding-…

Emergency patients who need hospital admission routinely wait hours, even days, for a bed. It’s called “boarding” — and though boarding is not new to the U.S. medical system, ripple effects from the pandemic have transformed it from a problem to a crisis. wapo.st/49xDh5R