Geriatric Emergency Medicine: challenge of the present and future

Authors

  • Madalys Díaz Díaz Policlínico “Martha Abreu de Estévez”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Pablo Sebastián Silveira Hernández Hospital Provincial Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Marta Rosa Ferriol Rodríguez Hospital Provincial Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara

Keywords:

demographic aging, health services for the elderly

Abstract

Population aging has had a significant impact on public health and health care in Cuba. The province of Villa Clara is the highest degree of aging (21.9%); this population subgroup contributes between 25 and 40% of visits to the Emergency Services. The models of care for adults in these services are not adapted to the geriatric patient, they are unknown of their peculiarities and it is belittled the functional, mental and social assessment. A geriatric assessment adapted to the dynamics of the Emergency Services help to establish a plan of specific cares to each elderly patient with acute medical illness requiring these services and preserve the quality and life expectancy that the NHS has achieved.

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Díaz Díaz M, Silveira Hernández PS, Ferriol Rodríguez MR. Geriatric Emergency Medicine: challenge of the present and future. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2014 Jun. 28 [cited 2025 Jul. 2];8(2):1-3. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/112

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2014): April-June

Section

Editorials

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