Özet:

Geriatric patients appeal to emergency services (ES) much more frequently than expected from their representation in the population.This is natural and due to the more frequent incidence of many chronic illnesses with ageing but the number of geriatric patients presenting to ES is rising together with the rise in the proportion of elderly in the population. The quality of the triage in ES is becoming more of an issue. To reduce crowding in ES, it is necessary to take precautions, hospitalisation should be blocked and priorities should be made and speeded up. Abuse of emergency aid ambulances and their bringing in patients without consultation with the command centre should be hindered, especially geriatric patients should be distributed equally between the hospitals and unjust treatment of the patients should be avoided. It is recommended that geriatric units be established in hospitals and that geriatric ES be evaluated separately. Geriatric patients use mostly emergency aid and the expectancy of their being hospitalised is therefore high; practices should be set up to provide proper care for patients and make home treatment better.

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