In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Christina Shenvi and Brittany Ellis bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Top experts discuss principles of geriatric ED care; ED workup of falls in older adults; evaluation of frailty in the ED; team-based/multi-disciplinary care in the ED; evaluation of head injury in the ED; acute pain management in older adults; and more.

Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including elder abuse; mental health emergencies in the elderly; capacity determinations; geri-specific aspects of pulmonary/respiratory emergencies; ED boarding and geriatric patients; deprescribing in the ED; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on geriatric emergency medicine, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.