Experiences of older people in emergency care settings: IMOGEN LYONS and RUTH PATERSON discuss the results of a qualitative study into aspects of emergency care that are important to older people
Journal Article
Lyons, I. & Paterson, R. (2009)
Experiences of older people in emergency care settings: IMOGEN LYONS and RUTH PATERSON discuss the results of a qualitative study into aspects of emergency care that are important to older people. Emergency Nurse. 16(10), 26-31. doi:10.7748/en2009.03.16.10.26.c6851. ISSN 1354-5752
People over the age of 65 make up about 20 per cent of the population of Scotland (Wood and Bain 2001). They also account for 185,000 emergency hospital admissions a year acro...