The purpose of this collaborative Consensus Statement ‘Integrated Emergency Care for Older People’ is to describe the elements that are essential for caring and providing treatment to older people during and after an acute illness or injury. The Consensus Working Party met at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine on 25th October 2016.
The Consensus Statement has been derived from expert experience and published evidence, and has been developed in partnership with representatives from national and international professional colleges, public and private hospitals, community health services, policy makers and government agencies, and consumers, who collectively provide cross-specialty representation across the continuum of care.