[Coordination in emergency departments by a mobile geriatrics unit].

One of the missions of the Centre mobile geriatrics unit in Marseille is to ensure the orientation towards the most suitable medical services of elderly patients seen in emergency departments who require admission to hospital. This regulation is preceded by the collection of geriatric and gerontological clinical data which are transferred to the ward to which the patient is being admitted. The 1 039 patients assessed in 2011 were fragile, polypathological people requiring specific geriatric patient management.