Purpose of Review
Recent advances in geriatric medicine and the aging of organ physiology affect the available clinical understanding and treatments for geriatric trauma patients.
Recent Findings
The effects of aging on organ physiology are complex and interlinked. There are global cellular changes and molecular and cellular changes specific to individual organ systems that affect the host response to trauma in the elderly.
Summary
As a n improved understanding of the physiologic changes of aging at the organ level allows application to a variety of clinical scenarios; we have better understanding of the host response to trauma at an older age.