Right time, right place: urgent community-based care for older people

Right time, right place: urgent community-based care for older people This document explores emerging community models for responding to an older person’s urgent care needs without them being admitted to hospital. It identifies commonalities and connections between different community responses, offering a brief explanation of the main models, such as hospital at home and urgent community response. There is a lack of consensus around definitions of services and provision in different parts of the country and the document sets out some principles that should underpin person-centred, timely care for older people. British Geriatrics Society