Elderly ending up in emergency departments

By Megan Neil
Updated December 10 2019 - 3:38am, first published 3:32am
More and more older people are using hospital emergency rooms, instead of going to a GP.
More and more older people are using hospital emergency rooms, instead of going to a GP.

Aged care residents are increasingly ending up in emergency departments, sometimes when it could have been avoided, a royal commission has been told.

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