{"id":4118,"date":"2022-05-03T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T10:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/medicineoftheelderlygeriatrics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:19:37","slug":"medicineoftheelderlygeriatrics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/medicineoftheelderlygeriatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine of the Elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please see the links above for links to <strong>symptom \/ presentation specific guidance<\/strong>&nbsp;for MOE patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medicine of the Elderly services in NHS Lothian vary depending on geography so from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/medicine-of-the-elderly-local-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medicine of the Elderly Local Services<\/a>\u00a0page, referrers can select the correct page for their locality. Where there are services that extend beyond the specific locality for the page (e.g. where there are Edinburgh wide services) for ease of reference these services have been included on the locality page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each Hospital at Home Service has their own RefHelp page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please see below for links to these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/admissionsurgentcare\/hospital-at-home\/hh-west-lothian-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Lothian H@H \u2013 RefHelp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/admissionsurgentcare\/hospital-at-home\/hospitalathomeeastlothian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">East Lothian H@H \u2013 RefHelp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/admissionsurgentcare\/hospital-at-home\/hospitalathomeedinburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edinburgh H@H \u2013 RefHelp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/guidelines\/admissionsurgentcare\/hospital-at-home\/hospitalathomemidlothianmerrit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Midlothian H@H \u2013 RefHelp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A.C &amp; J.B 9-7-26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs\" data-active-tab=\"0\"><ul class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-links\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__nav-link\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title-wrapper\"><a href=\"#\"><span class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__title\">Resources and Links<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"wp-block-getwid-tabs__tab-content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/Frailty_Information_Resource.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frailty Information Resource<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/FRAILTY-POSTER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frailty Poster&nbsp;<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/MoE-HatH-Rockwood-Clinical-Frailty-Scale-April-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/files\/sites\/2\/frailty-questionnaire-self-CFS-july-27.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"27391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frailty Self-assessment Questionnaire<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the links above for links to symptom \/ presentation specific guidance&nbsp;for MOE patients. Medicine of the Elderly services in NHS Lothian vary depending on geography so from the Medicine of the Elderly Local Services&nbsp;page, referrers can select the correct page for their locality. Where there are services that extend beyond the specific locality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3664,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"class_list":["post-4118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-medicineofelderlygeriatrics"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":" <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/category\/medicineofelderlygeriatrics\/\" rel=\"tag\">Medicine of the Elderly<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Please see the links above for links to symptom \/ presentation specific guidance&nbsp;for MOE patients. Medicine of the Elderly services in NHS Lothian vary depending on geography so from the Medicine of the Elderly Local Services&nbsp;page, referrers can select the correct page for their locality. Where there are services that extend beyond the specific locality","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28876,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4118\/revisions\/28876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.nhslothian.scot\/refhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}