Achieving Age-Friendly Health Care in an Outpatient Perioperative Clinic

Your Patient's Brain| January 2023 Achieving Age-Friendly Health Care in an Outpatient Perioperative Clinic Heather Lander, MD; Heather Lander, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Daniel J. Cole, MD, FASA; Daniel J. Cole, MD, FASA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Stacie Deiner, MD, MS; Stacie Deiner, MD, MS Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Marjorie Gloff, MD Marjorie Gloff, MD Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar ASA Monitor January 2023, Vol. 87, 20–21. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000911756.61867.27 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Cite Icon Cite Get Permissions Search Site Citation Heather Lander, Daniel J. Cole, Stacie Deiner, Marjorie Gloff; Achieving Age-Friendly Health Care in an Outpatient Perioperative Clinic. ASA Monitor 2023; 87:20–21 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000911756.61867.27 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll PublicationsASA Monitor Search Advanced Search Topics: outpatients, perioperative care According to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) publication, in 2020 the number of people aged 60 years and older outnumbered children younger than 5 years worldwide (asamonitor.pub/3NC2L83). Simultaneous to the rapidly growing older population, their surgical and perioperative needs are also increasing. Minimally invasive surgical techniques and procedures are allowing patients with increasingly complex comorbidities to proceed with intervention, when once this may not have been offered to them given the intrinsic risk. There is an expanding effort to provide comprehensive perioperative care to the older surgical patient. Housing the assessment, risk-stratification, and education of these patients and their caregivers in an outpatient clinic setting is an effective means of meeting this demand and to allowing a standardized process for evaluation. It is also in line with the national efforts of the Geriatric Surgery Verification Program. There are, however, multiple logistical obstacles to achieving effective, streamlined, age-friendly... You do not currently have access to this content.