Our mission is to provide a forum for Canadian Emergency Medicine (EM) clinicians, researchers, educators, and administrators committed to optimizing the care of older people in EDs; and to define and promote standards of excellence in their care.

Our vision is to create an environment within the Canadian emergency care community that promotes best practice, education, research, advocacy, and collaboration, which will serve to improve older adult emergency care across Canada.

The objectives of this committee are to:

1. To establish and promote a network of people working in EM with at least a partial focus on older people;
2. To provide a forum for exchange of developments in clinical care, research, education, and policy relating to older people in the ED and in pre-hospital care;
3. To create a centre of expertise within CAEP on the emergency department needs of Canada’s aging population;
4. To define standards for care of older patients in Canadian EDs;
5. To promote research that prioritizes older patients in EDs;
6. To enable education at the UGME, PGME, and CME levels.

CAEP Clinical Position Statement – Care of Older Adults in the Emergency Department (Expected publication late 2021)

Statement on Minimum Standards for the Care of Older People in Emergency Departments by the Geriatric Emergency Medicine Special Interest Group of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine

International Federation of Emergency Medicine – White paper on the care of older adults with acute illness and injury in the emergency department– Care of Older Adults

Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines – Joint Statement by the American College of Emergency Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, Emergency Nurses Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Endorsed by CAEP.