{"id":12164,"date":"2018-12-10T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12164"},"modified":"2018-12-10T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:19:45","slug":"what-some-hospitals-are-doing-to-make-their-er-age-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12164","title":{"rendered":"What some hospitals are doing to make their ER age friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody enjoys a trip to the emergency room, but it can be especially difficult; sometimes even dangerous, for the elderly. Denise Nassisi, director of the geriatric emergency department at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York states, \u201cMany older patients are frail and have difficulty getting up and down from a gurney or getting to a restroom. Some have cognitive dysfunction and don\u2019t know their medical history. Some may have impaired vision or hearing. A crowded chaotic environment is not the best for them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Read article to find out what some hospitals are doing to make their ER age friendly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/ers-can-be-loud-hectic-and-even-dangerous-for-the-elderly-heres-how-hospitals-are-trying-to-fix-that\/2018\/12\/07\/9f242400-f362-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-89BKGlIn2p44J5-A-9JWDtrDtcLrDaAlk4exrfVdS_B2m4S4EfaKxt4VyeBTWd44zRF2HCXA27PXuxdy8oyRKzZ3E05g&amp;_hsmi=68181143&amp;utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_content=68181143&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_term=.fa2cb0bd7b1e\">Click here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7802\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody enjoys a trip to the emergency room, but it can be especially difficult; sometimes even dangerous, for the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12165,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12164\/revisions\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}