title: Elderly patients in the emergency department.
abstract: Emergency department nursing care of the older individual requires a specific knowledge base to ensure optimal outcomes. Health-care resource utilization specific to elderly patients in the emergency department and selected common health problems that bring older people to the emergency department are described. Distinctions between normal age-related changes and disease signs and symptoms are explained to provide emergency department nurses with the requisite information to care for the elderly appropriately.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fulmer
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Degutis
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning