VHA Talks: GERI-VET
490 views · Published 7 November 2018 · 6:45 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Veterans Health Administration · 2018 · Education
Emergency Department (ED) visits for older adults often lack appreciation for underlying geriatric syndromes, care coordination, and follow-through by the ED team, resulting in missed opportunities to provide the best care, recognize the root cause of presentation, prevent further functional decline, and decrease ED revisits or hospital admissions. The GERI-VET Diffusion program identifies older adults at high risk for functional decline, screens them for geriatric syndromes, and puts in place multidisciplinary care coordination utilizing former military medics as a novel workforce in the ED.
