Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital

Among the large challenges to be met by global healthcare in the 21st century are the increasing needs of the growing older population. A team of researchers from Scotland and Ireland published a new Cochrane review in July 2011 looking at one targeted intervention which might help: comprehensive geriatric assessment on admittance to hospital. Graham Ellis from Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, Scotland describes their findings.