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Healthcare professionals caring for older people need to be trained in the clinical reasoning and communication skills necessary to ensure safe and high‐quality care in this challenging group of patients. These skills are essential for accurate and thorough initial assessment, and a lack of such skills may lead to diagnostic errors and subsequent mismanagement in addition to poor overall quality of care. Explicit training to develop these difficult skills can be wanting, and this ability is often expected to develop with experience. Box 11.3 lists some of the individual skills or behaviours that geriatricians use to maximize patient safety in older people.