Toward Senior-Friendly Hospitals: An Overview of Programs, Their Elements and Effectiveness in Improving Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Comprehensive "senior-friendly hospital" (SFH)-programs have been developed to counteract negative health outcomes in hospitalized older adults. The aim of this narrative review was to provide an overview of published SFH-programs and their elements and to summarize evidence of their effect on quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Summary

A search of the databases Pubmed/Medline from inception to July 2023 and of governmental, regional, and hospital websites was performed. Programs were earmarked as SFH-programs if they primarily focused on the hospital setting, and comprised a hospital wide, multilevel approach and consisted of multiple elements. Articles and reports were included if participants were hospitalized and aged 60 years and older, and described th

SUBMITTER: Scheerman K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11777139 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature