Enhancing Dementia Care in Emergency Departments: A Community-based Approach to Avoiding Hospital Admissions
Background: In Canada, people living with dementia (PLWD) stay in emergency departments (EDs) an average of 2.5 hours longer than other older adults, experience 65% higher hospitalization rates, and have median lengths of stay 1.3 to 2 times higher(1). PLWD are often taken to the ED due to caregiver burnout and difficu...