title: [Improved hospital care for elderly patients: guidance on vulnerability and goal assessment].
abstract: Hospital care is highly disease-focused, tending towards further specialisation, and largely driven by technological innovations. Frail elderly, however, are an important and rapidly growing group of patients that is not best cared for in such a clinical environment. Case histories and the description of outcomes of an innovative programme called 'CareWell Primary Care' reveal that triage based on frailty and a global geriatric assessment of frail patients which is linked to goal-oriented hospital care and shared decision-making are the cornerstones of much needed improvement in delivering effective, safe, and sustainable hospital care to our ageing population.
authors: UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen.
authors: Yvonne
authors: Y
authors: Schoon
authors: Marianne B
authors: MB
authors: van Iersel
authors: Didy E
authors: DE
authors: Jacobsen
authors: Jan W A
authors: JW
authors: Smit
authors: Menko-Jan
authors: MJ
authors: de Boer
authors: Marcel G M
authors: MG
authors: Olde Rikkert
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003693:Delirium / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D016330:Frail Elderly; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000592:standards*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000628:therapy; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male