In Vancouver,
British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta, for example, hospitals have created “acute care for the elderly” units based on a
model of elderly care which features multidisciplinary teams of specialists; elderly-friendly surroundings, including comfortable
chairs and furnishings such as clocks with large faces and numbers; and policies designed to promote independence and cognitive
stimulation, such as requirements that patients use bathrooms rather than bedpans and that they have their meals at central
locations rather than in bed. In an effort to be elderly-friendly, other hospitals have introduced such measures as emergency
room teams dedicated to detecting delirium or hired staff such as geriatric emergency nurses.