Background. Paramedics are an important health human resource and are uniquely mobile
in most communities across Canada. In the last dozen years, challenges in the delivery of …

ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to identify the types of community paramedicine programs
and the training for each. MethodsA systematic review of MEDLINE, Embase, grey literature …

Already crowded and stressful, US emergency departments (EDs) are facing the challenge
of serving an aging population that requires complex and lengthy evaluations. Creative …

Study objective Among older persons, disability and functional decline are associated with
increased mortality, institutionalization, and costs. The aim of the study was to determine …

Models addressing urgent clinical needs for older adults with multiple advanced chronic
conditions are lacking. This observational study describes a Community Paramedicine (CP) …

A historically unprecedented increase in the world's geriatric population over the next 4
decades will challenge prehospital emergency medical services, health care providers, and …

Objective: Older adults, those aged 65 and older, frequently require emergency care.
However, only limited national data describe the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) care …

Background Increasing demand on the UK emergency services is creating interest in
reviewing the structure and content of ambulance services. Only 10% of emergency calls …

Community paramedicine (CP) is an evolving method of providing community-based health
care in which paramedics function outside of their traditional emergency response roles in …

Of 4 older adults, 1 will fall each year in the United States. Based on 2020 data from the
Centers of Disease Control, about 36 million older adults fall each year, resulting in 32,000 …