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 Older people are more vulnerable than younger patients to healthcare‐associated harm and its consequences. This tendency is associated with frailty and comorbidity rather than age alone – as our populations age, systems of care need to be designed with this in mind.

 Older people experience a wider range of adverse events than their younger counterparts in the hospital, including the geriatric syndromes, yet patient safety in this population is comparatively under‐researched.

 There is a need to improve the measurement of safety and quality of care in older people and to better understand patient safety for older people in non‐hospital settings.

 Key areas of focus for improving patient safety for older people include designing safer healthcare systems for older people; the early detection, prevention, and management of the geriatric syndromes; providing education to individual clinicians to enhance decision‐making, assessment, and team skills; and efforts to reduce ageism and negative attitudes toward older people and their care.