{"id":1491,"date":"2025-12-05T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/clarksville32\/er-for-elderly-features-sudoku-artificial-skylight\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:58:02","slug":"er-for-elderly-features-sudoku-artificial-skylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/locations\/clarksville\/er-for-elderly-features-sudoku-artificial-skylight\/","title":{"rendered":"ER for Elderly Features Sudoku, Artificial Skylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you picture a visit to the ER with your elderly parent, I&#8217;m betting the first word that comes to mind isn&#8217;t &#8220;calm&#8221; When you visualize the environment, would you call it &#8220;wonderful&#8221;? &#8220;Beautiful&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. Yet those are some of the adjective that pop up in a <em>New York Times<\/em> article about an emergency room in New York. Like some other facilities across the country, Manhattan&#8217;s Mount Sinai Hospital has opened an ER specially designed for elderly people. The <em>Times<\/em> describes one visit this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There were no beeping machines or blinking lights or scurrying medical residents. A volunteer circulated among the patients like a flight attendant, making soothing conversation and offering reading glasses, Sudoku puzzles and hearing aids. Above them, an artificial sun shined through a skylight imprinted with a photographic rendering of a robin\u2019s-egg-blue sky, puffy clouds and leafy trees.<\/p>\n<p>This geriatric ER also features nonskid floors and rails on the walls to prevent falls, which were a problem in the regular ER.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals are hoping these new ERs will help ward off problems, including <a href=\"https:\/\/preferhome.com\/services\/transition-care\/\">readmission<\/a>. Elderly people often make for more-complicated patients, the article points out. They may have numerous medications, more than one illness and difficulty expressing problems.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a geriatric ER in your area? Does it sound like a good idea to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you picture a visit to the ER with your elderly parent, I&#8217;m betting the first word that comes to mind isn&#8217;t &#8220;calm&#8221; When you visualize the environment, would you call it &#8220;wonderful&#8221;? &#8220;Beautiful&#8221;? Probably not. 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