Some 260 collaborators of the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine (ETGEM) came together to conduct the Frailty in European Emergency Departments study on 04 July 2023. This project collected observational data for all people aged 65+ who attended 62 emergency departments across 14 countries, administering the Clinical Frailty Scale.

The headline paper in European Geriatric Medicine (https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-023-00926-3) reports the 40% prevalence of frailty among older people attending emergency care settings.

Further papers on the configuration of acute frailty services and concordance with frailty screening are currently under peer review.