The EUSEM section of our European Taskforce on GeriEM is going from strength to strength! We enjoyed a well attended meeting in Vienna during the EUSEM 2025 Congress and celebrated this year’s achievements including:

• Completion of two successful pre-courses during the conference and onwards dissemination of our GeriEM Bootcamp in four continents
• Participation in our Palliative Care in the ED e-course reaching 1300 registrants
• Celebration of the 2023 FEED Study being awarded best European Geriatric Medicine paper
• Contributions by the Taskforce to recent guideline documents by the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine and the US Geri-ED programme

Two highly successful GeriEM pre-courses took place in Vienna at the EUSEM 2025 Congress:

• Train-the-Trainer – 15 participants completed the full day orientation to deliver the educational programme in their own settings
• GeriEM Bootcamp – 24 participants completed our half day course

The SIG enjoyed a very well attended meeting in Reykjavik, chaired by Dr Steve Lim. We discussed presentations by:

• Dr Liz Moloney on the Frailty Trigger Score
• Dr Barry Evans on frailty SDEC services
• Dr Rasmus Strandmark on traumatic brain injury investigation

ETGEM are pleased to share a new paper, led by Dr Jacinta Lucke. Here we reflect on experiences conducting the 2023 Frailty in European Emergency Departments study. We advocate for evolution of research approaches and standards, to improve and broaden representation of older people living with frailty in high quality GeriEM studies.

Promoting uniform data reporting in research on older individuals living with frailty in the emergency department: the Utstein approach. European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Eur J Emerg Med. https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001275

We are honoured to announce that our Frailty in European Emergency Departments (FEED) study by the European Taskforce on Geriatric Emergency Medicine has been awarded ‘Best European Geriatric Medicine Paper 2024’ by the journal.

The study recruited 3479 older people attending 62 emergency departments over a single twenty-four-hour period, and identified the prevalence of frailty to be 40%: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-023-00926-3

Congratulations to all involved!

We are delighted to share the news that 500 participants from around the world have now registered for our course on Palliative Care in the ED!

The e-course is free of charge and can be accessed through the EUSEM Academy elearning platform:
https://eusem.org/education/courses-traineeships/palliative-care-in-the-emergency-department-ecourse

Participants at the Dutch North Sea EM Conference in beautiful Egmond aan Zee were treated to a programme track on GeriEM:

• Using person-centredness to tackle conundrums in geriatric emergency care: James van Oppen
• The GEM team: Vera Hogervorst
• Polypharmacy – what should we do in the ED?: Eveline van Poelgeest

Following the recent recommendations for older people receiving critical care endorsed by the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine, we have produced our commentary for the EM community: https://doi.org/10.1097/MEJ.0000000000001227

As frailty provides us with a common frame on which to build and inform impressions and decisions, we advocate for its early consideration, perhaps even as soon as the primary survey (ABCDE–F).

BMC Emergency Medicine have announced a call for papers for their special collection on GeriEM: https://bit.ly/3DTepuT

This collection invites clinicians and researchers to contribute to the field of geriatric emergency medicine by exploring the unique challenges and opportunities in caring for older adults in emergency settings. Submissions will undergo peer review, and it should be noted that BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access journal with article processing charges.

BMC Emergency Medicine special collection on GeriEM – call for papers

An incredible 400 participants from all around the world have registered for our ecourse on Palliative Care in the Emergency Department!

The eCourse is free of charge and can be accessed through the EUSEM Academy elearning platform:
https://eusem.org/education/courses-traineeships/palliative-care-in-the-emergency-department-ecourse