You may also be referred to a specialist in diagnosing dementia or memory disorders, such as a neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist or geriatrician.
Geriatrician Bill Thomas, who helped Holy Cross design the seniors ER, says traditional emergency rooms were set up to be good at treating trauma and to treat it quickly.
"It is pure science fiction to say we can change the rate of aging in an organism as complex as ours, " argues Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University Medical Center who studies centenarians.