Geriatric suicide prevention should not be viewed as solely a behavioral-health issue. For trauma centers, it is also an injury-prevention issue.

Geriatric trauma is changing. The number of older adults requiring trauma care is increasing, but more importantly, trauma programs are developing a better understanding of the complexity of caring for these patients. Geriatric PI should evolve with that understanding.

Building geriatric trauma capability doesn't have to begin with a new service line, a large committee, or an expensive program. Start with the data, identify the problems, intervene, and measure results.

The trauma surgeon still needs to be the expert in trauma. What may need to change is the composition of the team around that surgeon.

Hospitals must design geriatric trauma care so that high-quality care and financial sustainability reinforce each other.

An increase in the number of geriatric trauma patients appearing in trauma data likely reflects both a real increase in the burden of injury and changes in how injured older adults are identified and counted.

As the trauma population ages, trauma centers will need to evolve from a model focused primarily on treating injuries to one that also accounts for frailty, function, cognition, comorbidities, goals of care, and the patient's ability to return to their previous life.

Hospital leaders make difficult decisions in rural communities when assessing capacity to provide trauma, stroke, and cardiac care.

Proactively Communicate Wishes Through Advanced Directives, POSTs, and Code Status

ACS trauma centers must have 22+ specialties continuously available.

Who is involved in trauma care? Almost everyone in the hospital!

The basics of trauma care and the difference between an emergency room and a trauma center.