Healthy Ageing: When To Take Older Adults to Emergency?

Professor Dr Mohd Idzwan Zakaria, Consultant Emergency Physician, UMMC | Professor Dr Tan Maw Pin, Consultant Geriatrician, UMMC

21-Nov-24 16:00

Healthy Ageing: When To Take Older Adults to Emergency?

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How often do older adults need or end up in the emergency department? How different are their medical needs compared to someone younger? Here to unpack those questions and more on this episode of Healthy Ageing are consultant emergency physician Prof Dr Mohd Idzwan Zakaria and consultant geriatrician Prof Dr Tan Maw Pin, both from UMMC.

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Lim Sue Ann

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Categories: managing disease, wellness

Tags: the bigger picture, health and living, healthyageing, elderly care, older adults, senior citizens, emergency medicine, primary care, caregiver, stroke, falls, delirium,

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