Posted AT 7:07 AM EST on 24/03/08
Out of the ER: Finding the 'right' setting for elderly patients
Emergency departments are health care's "canary in the coal mine." Today, the canary is telling us that the health care system is already reeling from the growing needs of older Canadians with chronic diseases like congestive heart disease, asthma and diabetes.
In Ontario, emergency visits by people under the age of 55 have not changed much over the past decade, averaging about three million a year. But people 55 and over are another story. Their visits have increased to 1.
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