symposium age-sensitive emergency medicine

“Age-sensitive emergency medicine” – funded by Charité Foundation – aims to raise the profile of geriatric emergency medicine within the healthcare system and strengthen its role. Leading European experts in geriatric emergency medicine will hold a course on geriatric emergency medicine featuring simulations and small-group discussions based on the curriculum of the European Task Force for Geriatric Emergency Medicine, as well as a workshop on quality indicators in geriatric emergency medicine: clinical, scientific, and participatory. On the second day, two lecture sessions will be held in the morning on the topics “Best Practice in Geriatric Emergency Medicine” and “Geriatric ‘M’s’ in Emergency Medicine.

Dorothee Riedlinger

Emergency Medicine Physician, postdoctoral researcher, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Jessica Frömmer
Head of Nursing Emergency Department CCM, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Martin Möckel

Head of Department Emergency and Acute Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Virchow Klinikum

Oct 07, 2026 | 8.30 am – 06.30 pm
The number of older patients in the Emergency Department is rising. Medical care for older persons frequently Living with frailty, multimorbidity and care needs is rising. Frailty is now so prevalent that all care Providers in emergency Medicine require core skills in geriatric emergency Medicine. This hands-on course aims to improve participants‘ knowledge and skills in geriatric emergency medicine. Small Groups will cover table-top discussions and scenarios of key themes including Trauma, Sepsis, pain Management, syncope, polypharmacy, cognitive impariment and end-of-life care.
08.30 am – 01.00 pm
GeriEM-Training
02.30 – 05.30 pm
Workshop: Quality indicators in geriatric emergency medicine: clinical, scientific, and participatory

Venue

silent green Kulturquartier Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

Oct 08, 2026 | 9.00 AM – 1.00 pm

09.00 – 10.45 am
Best practice Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Chairs: Pauline Hennig • James van Oppen
Welcome and Introduction
Dorothee Riedlinger
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Nursing at the Core of Geriatric Emergency Medicine
WIETSKE BLOM-HAM
Hogeschool Utrecht/The Netherlands
Cultural-sensitive care in GeriEM
Volkan Aykac
Evangelisches Geriatriezentrum Berlin
Screening Palliative care needs
Anna Munk
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
10.45 – 11.15 am
Coffee Break & Networking
11.15 am – 13.00 pm

Geriatric Ms in Emergency Medicine

Chairs: Wietske Blom-Ham • Anna Munk

Mind: Cognition and Delirium in GeriEM interprofessional

ABUBAKAR ALI GAAL
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Masked needs: Rethinking How We Understand Older Patients
Dorien Venema
Hogeschool Utrecht/The Netherlands
Medication: ACB, FRIDs and PIMs
Juliane Neumann
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Multicomplexity: Pitfalls in GeriEM – geriatrician‘s perspective AG Notfall DGG
JAN-NIKLAS KROHN
Klinikum Nürnberg
Matters Most: Outcomes in Research in GeriEM
James van Oppen
University Hospitals of Leicester, NHS Trust, Leicester/UK

Venue

silent green Kulturquartier Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
Registration
SYMPOSIUM AGE-SENSITIVE EMERGENCY MEDICINE: I will attend