Emergency Geriatric Medicine

Objectives

To propose guidelines and spread existing guidelines relevant to older people in pre-hospital care and emergency departments.
To develop guidance on educational and service delivery programmes to improve care of older people in emergency departments.
To develop collaboration with other societies active in influencing care of older people in emergency departments.
To consult, deliberate and provide guidancon definitions, scope of practice and terms of reference of geriatric emergency care in emergency departments.
To define the emerging subspecialty of Geriatric Emergency Medicine (GEM) for member European Union countries.

Well attended (>150 delegates) symposium on GEM during EUGMS in Lisbon Portugal (septmber 2016)
Multiple presentatations during EUSEM conference in Vienna (septmber 2016)
Published European curriculum on GEM (July 2016)
Re-confirmed collaboration with the GEM-section of the European Union Society for Emergency Medicine in collective European Task force on GEM (spring 2017)

Update and publication of GEM Task force mission, vision and goals
Establish and publish a research agenda on GEM
Further disseminate the curriculum in GEM; Develop a toolbox of education means
Initiate clinical practice guidelines specific for older patients in the Emergency Medicine setting
Establishing working group of GEM SIG members dedicated to specific tasks

N° of members: 136

19th EuGMS International Congress, Helsinki September 20-22 - SIG Collateral Meeting - OPEN - SEPT 20th from 11.30am to 12.30pm Helsinki TIME

18th EuGMS International Congress, London September 28-30 - SIG Collateral Meeting - OPEN - SEPT 28th from 12.00pm to 01.00pm UK TIME

17th EuGMS International Congress, Athens October 11-13 - SIG Collateral Meeting - OPEN- OCT 12th from 09.00am to 10.30am CEST

15th EuGMS Congress Krakow 25-27 September 2019

Christian Nickel, Abdel Bellou, Simon Conroy (eds)
“Geriatric Emergency Medicine" - Springer 2018
S. Conroy , C.H. Nickel, A.B. Jónsdóttir, M. Fernandez, J. Banerjee , S. Mooijaart, F. Sjöstrand, E. Devriendt, O. Ganansia, F.J. Martín Sánchez ,A. Bellou.
The development of a European curriculum in Geriatric Emergency Medicine.
European Geriatric Medicine, July 2016, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 315–321

Next Meeting 16th EuGMS International Congress, Athens October 7-9

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