Community frailty response service: the ED at your front door. Issue 11 (24th September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McNamara, Rosa; Donnelly, Kerri; Boyle, Nichola; Menzies, David; Hollywood, Rebecca; Little, Elizabeth; Tiernan, Eoin; Donohoe, Karen; Delaney, Aidan; Duffy, Fionnuala; Feeney, Eoin; O'Hanlon, Shane
• Is Part Of: Emergency medicine journal. Volume 37:Issue 11(2020)
• Page Start: 714
• Page End: 716
• Publication Date: 2020-09-24
• Subjects: frailty -- geriatrics -- therapists -- prehospital care; Emergency medicine -- Periodicals; 616.02505
• DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2020-210005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1472-0205

Abstract

Abstract : We describe the expansion and adaptation of a frailty response team to assess older people in their usual place of residence. The team had commenced a weekend service to a limited area in February 2020. As a consequence of demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we expanded it and adapted the model of care to provide a 7-day service to our entire catchment area. Five hundred and ninety two patient reviews have been completed in the first 105 days of operation with 43 patients transferred to hospital for further investigation or management following assessment.