Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Considerations in the Geriatric Emergency Department Patient

Anita N Chary; Lauren Cameron-Comasco; Kalpana N Shankar; Margaret E Samuels-Kalow

doi:10.1016/j.cger.2023.04.009

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Considerations in the Geriatric Emergency Department Patient

Clin Geriatr Med. 2023 Nov;39(4):673-686. doi: 10.1016/j.cger.2023.04.009. Epub 2023 May 10.

Authors

Anita N Chary¹, Lauren Cameron-Comasco², Kalpana N Shankar³, Margaret E Samuels-Kalow⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 2450 Holcombe Boulevard, Suite 01Y, Houston, TX 77021, USA; Department of Medicine, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine, 2450 Holcombe Boulevard, Suite 01Y, Houston, TX 77021, USA. Electronic address: anita.chary@bcm.edu.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, 3601 West 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Neville House, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 125 Nashua Street, Suite 9206, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Abstract

This article introduces core topics in health equity scholarship and provides examples of how diversity, equity, and inclusion impact the aging population and emergency care of older adults. It offers strategies for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion to both strengthen the patient-clinician therapeutic relationship and to address operations and systems that impact care of the geriatric emergency department patient.

Keywords: Culture; Diversity; Emergency medicine; Equity; Geriatrics; Inclusion; Social determinants of health; Structural inequities.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aging
Emergency Medical Services*
Emergency Service, Hospital
Geriatrics*
Humans

Grants and funding

R03 AG078943/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States