AHA podcast discusses how to improve emergency geriatric care
An American Hospital Association podcast explores how to improve elder care in the emergency department. Kevin Biese, MD, an associate professor of emergency medicine and co-director of the division of geriatric emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina’s Hospitals, joins Marie Cleary-Fishman, AHA’s vice president of clinical quality, to discuss how emergency departments can better account for older adults’ specific, complex and multi-layered needs.