title: ED designed to focus on issues faced by seniors.
abstract: Patients over age 65 who come into the emergency department at St. Mary Mercy Livonia Hospital in Livonia, MI, receive treatment in a special unit with non-glare lighting, non-slip floors, hand-rails and grab bars, and pressure-reducing mattresses. Staff received special training on meeting the special needs of the senior population. Providers go beyond looking at the complaint with which the patients present and assess and evaluate their living situations and needs in the community. The staff makes follow-up calls the next day to most of the patients.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D016519:Hospitals, Religious; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008824:Michigan; D019982:Organizational Case Studies