The (un)surprising resilience of octogenarians in intensive care

Michael Beil¹, Jeremy M Jacobs², Bertrand Guidet^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, NHS Highland, Inverness, UK. beil@doctors.org.uk.
² Department of Geriatric Rehabilitation and Center for Palliative Care, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Equipe: épidémiologie hospitalière qualité et organisation des soins, Paris, France.
⁴ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, service de réanimation médicale, Paris, France.

Editorial

Michael Beil et al. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Jan.

. 2025 Jan;51(1):140-142.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-024-07766-0. Epub 2025 Jan 7.

Michael Beil¹, Jeremy M Jacobs², Bertrand Guidet^{3

4}

¹ Department of Medicine, NHS Highland, Inverness, UK. beil@doctors.org.uk.
² Department of Geriatric Rehabilitation and Center for Palliative Care, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, Equipe: épidémiologie hospitalière qualité et organisation des soins, Paris, France.
⁴ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, service de réanimation médicale, Paris, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declarations. Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Understanding patient preferences: a crucial component of caring for older adults with critical conditions.
Beil M, Benoit D, Guidet B. Beil M, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Aug;51(8):1530-1532. doi: 10.1007/s00134-025-08016-7. Epub 2025 Jul 10. Intensive Care Med. 2025. PMID: 40637770 No abstract available.

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