Medicine, healthcare, health services, teaching methodologies, and staff training are rapidly changing in this post-Covid era. There is no doubt that the COVID pandemic has revealed many gaps both in the organization of services and in the teaching of medicine. New roles have emerged in this post-Covid era for all health professionals.
There are certainly four most important things that have emerged:
• The unpreparedness to deal with geriatric emergencies and pandemics.
• The need to better prepare healthcare staff for emergencies and the problems of older people.
• The needs to better study the biology of aging and the pathogenesis of diseases.
• The need to reorganize health services.
AMA, AAMC, AAPC, AMEE, ISTTART, ACEP, EUGMS, EUSEM, and other scientific societies and educational organizations have emphasized in the past two years the need for a radical change in both training and services. As the number of older people is growing all over the world, scientific research has privileged many topics related to aging and diseases of the older population. Administrators and stakeholders are proposing new service organizations to identify new hospitals, new home care, new roles for nurses, new roles for pharmacists, and new ways of controlling and managing the older population.
This Research Topic aims to gather experiences and specific indications that can help everyone to better understand the world and the needs of the older people and also suggest new organizations of services and new ways of teaching in medicine.
Medicine, healthcare, health services, teaching methodologies, and staff training are rapidly changing in this post-Covid era. There is no doubt that the COVID pandemic has revealed many gaps both in the organization of services and in the teaching of medicine. New roles have emerged in this post-Covid era for all health professionals.
There are certainly four most important things that have emerged:
• The unpreparedness to deal with geriatric emergencies and pandemics.
• The need to better prepare healthcare staff for emergencies and the problems of older people.
• The needs to better study the biology of aging and the pathogenesis of diseases.
• The need to reorganize health services.
AMA, AAMC, AAPC, AMEE, ISTTART, ACEP, EUGMS, EUSEM, and other scientific societies and educational organizations have emphasized in the past two years the need for a radical change in both training and services. As the number of older people is growing all over the world, scientific research has privileged many topics related to aging and diseases of the older population. Administrators and stakeholders are proposing new service organizations to identify new hospitals, new home care, new roles for nurses, new roles for pharmacists, and new ways of controlling and managing the older population.
This Research Topic aims to gather experiences and specific indications that can help everyone to better understand the world and the needs of the older people and also suggest new organizations of services and new ways of teaching in medicine.