Geriatric .Nursing Audit

(that is, unable to manage activities of daily living)(2). These findings, coupled with the fact that 75 percent of the patients hospitalized on our medical service were over age 60, prompted Montefiore's Task Force on Geriatrics to recommend, in 1977, the development of a model program "'to prevent or delay unnecessary or premature institutionalization." Prevention would be accomplished by functional assessments, identification of elderly at risk, follow-up, continuity of care, and outreach, as well as by documenting needs and evaluating services given(3). The geriatric unit supervisor, senior nurse, and nurse clinician worked with a nursing project team to explore the impact of geriatric nursing care on patients. An immediate problem that:we encountered