title: Clinical management where medicine meets management. Frail safe.
abstract: Hospitals need to strive to reduce admissions and improve quality of care for frail older people. Dedicated units within accident and emergency offer the best hope of reducing demeaning trolley waits. Community-based care and home treatment needs to be better co-ordinated to reduce the burden on hospitals.
authors.forename: Mary-Louise
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Harding
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006801:Humans; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom