Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

2 results

  • Chapter 52 - Hospital-Based Care

  • from Section IV - Principles of Care for the Elderly
  • Edited by Jan Busby-Whitehead, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Samuel C. Durso, The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, Christine Arenson, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Rebecca Elon, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Mary H. Palmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, William Reichel
  • Book:
    Reichel's Care of the Elderly
    Published online:
    30 June 2022
    Print publication:
    21 July 2022, pp 641-649

  • Summary

    As Medicare has focused more on hospital readmissions and care transitions over time, programs and movements aimed at providing geriatric-focused care have developed nationally. These programs aim to minimize and prevent hazards of hospitalization, decrease readmissions, provide safer transitions to the post-acute setting, and decrease length of stay while acknowledging and addressing specific care considerations of hospitalized older adults, such as dementia, sensory impairment, and mobility impairment. Inpatient geriatric assessments help providers tailor care plans to the specific needs of individual hospitalized older adults and determine their post-acute care needs, and also help with appropriate counseling of family and caregivers. Prevention measures are vital during hospitalization of older adults, who are at higher risk of delirium, pressure injury, falls, aspiration, malnutrition, sleep disturbances, and venous thromboembolism. Detailed transition plans and specialized discharge summaries are important to highlight the needs of older adults as they transition to post-acute care settings, and should allow for providers to resume the care plan seamlessly, including continuation of advanced care planning conversations.

  • DISSEMINATION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ACUTE CARE FOR ELDERS (ACE) UNITS IN THE UNITED STATES

  • Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Bernard S. Bloom, Donna Brady Raziano, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / January 2003
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 January 2003, pp. 220-227

  • Objective: The objective of this paper is to determine prevalence and characteristics of acute care for elders (ACE) units and hospital characteristics associated with the presence of an ACE unit.

    Methods: Data on characteristics and prevalence of ACE units were obtained by surveying all established geriatric medical divisions across U.S. medical schools. Data on hospital characteristics such as number of beds, revenue, number of Medicare inpatients, and average length of stay were obtained from the 1999 American Hospital Association Annual Survey Data. Descriptive statistics and t test were used to analyze the characteristics of ACE units. Stepwise logistic regression was used to analyze the hospital characteristics associated with the presence of an ACE unit.

    Results: The survey identified 16 geriatric divisions and programs with ACE units. Hospitals that have ACE units differ significantly with respect to number of beds and total revenue, compared with institutions that do not have an ACE unit. Stepwise logistic regression indicated total hospital revenue was the only factor significantly associated with the presence of an ACE unit.

    Conclusions: ACE units are attractive interdisciplinary models to address the particular needs of the elderly during their hospital stay. Low presence of ACE units warrants further research as to reasons more hospitals have not included them, given the available evidence for clinical, functional, and economic benefits.