Population ageing is a worldwide phenomenon. Emergency department is indispensable in the chain of care for geriatric population, hence the need of quality geriatric acute care in the field of emergency medicine. There are two main models of acute geriatric care worldwide: 1. UK model is characterized by Geriatrician-led clinic at A&E Department; 2. Canadian and Singapore model is a joint-effort of emergency physicians and nurses with geriatricians. In this presentation I am going to share the model of geriatric ambulatory care in Singapore, where I had a 3-week attachment in 2018 to different emergency departments with special geriatric protocols. The practice and setting of emergency medicine in Singapore are very similar to the HK system, except that human resources and health care funding are remarkably different. The latter depicts the challenges faced by HK emergency departments in implementing geriatric-specific protocols.
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