[Conceptual framework and historical perspective of intermediate care].

The aging of the population is raising the need to make structural changes in the National Health System. First, the need to increase geriatric services in all hospitals. Second, implement and integrate intermediate care (IC), and Third and last, guarantee medical care in long-term care.

Usefulness of point of care ultrasound in older adults: a multicentre study across different geriatric care settings in Spain and the United Kingdom.

Background: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is an imaging technique performed bedside. To date, few published studies have reported the usefulness of multiorgan POCUS in Geriatrics. The objective of this study was to describe the utility of multiorgan POCUS in the care of older adults admitted to geriatric care settings.

[Evolution of the profile of patients attended by a hospital Geriatric Home Care Unit in the last 20 years].

Objective: To describe the evolution of the profile of patients attended by a Geriatric Home Care (GHC) Unit and its care activity in the last two decades.

Methods: Data on the historical activity of the AGD Unit from 2001 to 2020, grouped into 5-year periods, were recorded. Sociodemographic, clinical, functional (Functional Red Cross Scale and Barthel index) and mental (Mental Red Cross Scale) variables were collected, baseline and at inclusion to AGD.

[Coordination between primary care and a geriatrics service, 20 years later].

Objective: To describe the evolution of the care and coordination activity of a specialized hospital team (Geriatric Home Care-AGD team) in support of Primary Care (PC) for the care of geriatric patients.

Location: Health-5 area of the Community of Madrid.

Participants, Interventions And Main Measurements: Evaluation of patients attended at home at the request of PC by AGD, in 1997-1999 and twenty years later, in 2017-2019.

Health impact on the elderly survivors of COVID-19: Six months follow up.

Purpose: To analyse factors associated with mortality at 6 months in survivors older than 70 years after hospital admission for SARS-CoV-2.

Methods: Descriptive observational study with follow-up at 6 months. All patients over 70 years of age, discharged from the Hospital Central de la Cruz Roja, after hospitalization for COVID-19 consecutively during the months March to May 2020 were included.

Mortality risk factors in a Spanish cohort of oldest-old patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in an acute geriatric unit: the OCTA-COVID study.

Purpose: To determine predictors of in-hospital mortality related to COVID-19 in oldest-old patients.

Design: Single-center observational study.

Setting And Participants: Patients ≥ 75 years admitted to an Acute Geriatric Unit with COVID-19.

Health status in survivors older than 70 years after hospitalization with COVID-19: observational follow-up study at 3 months.

Purpose: To analyze factors associated with mortality at 3 months and readmissions, functional and cognitive decline, anorexia and affective disorders in patients aged > 70 years surviving after hospital admission for SARS-CoV-2.

Methods: Patients aged > 70 years, discharged after hospitalization with COVID-19.

Outcome Variables: mortality, readmissions, functional and cognitive impairment, anorexia and mood disorder.

[Impact of a centralised hospital admission system on the efficacy and efficiency of a geriatric functional recovery unit].

Objective: To evaluate the influence of a change in the management of admissions on the activity and care outcomes of a Geriatric Functional Recovery Unit (GFRU).

Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study was conducted. Since 2000, the Hospital Central Cruz Roja GFRU has been collecting data grouped into periods of 4 years, except for the centralised admissions (September 2016-December 2018).