ACEP‘s Geriatric Emergency Medicine Section

Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Our section is dedicated to improving the care provided to the elderly patient in the ED. Every day, you treat people in this fast-growing population. This population has specific needs that you must address in a caring and creative manner.

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September 15, 2022

Transforming Tricky Transitions: Optimizing care transitions for older patients in your emergency department

Looking to improve care transitions for community -dwelling older adults? Join us at ACEP 22 in San Francisco, CA for this preconference workshop. Friday, September 30, 10:30am - 2:00pm

June 8, 2022

ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine

Watch ACEP Geriatric Emergency Medicine discuss how to have our emergency medicine providers age in place. Think you may be aging out of night shifts? Hear about policies at different institutions to ...

March 31, 2022

Chair's Corner

Lauren Southerland, MD, FACEP The Geriatric EM Section is active with tremendous momentum from the section members involved in daily geriatric emergency patient care. The section’s goal is simple; to ...

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