But the geriatrics made us think that the whole thing was about to go into terminal care.
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The impact of this dwindling resource pool will be amplified and felt even more in specialist areas such as geriatrics.
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The British Geriatrics Society said the report had not spent enough time on the issue of personal care and going to the toilet.
Its delegates, once mostly geriatrics, now have an average age of a little over 50 and have taken with gusto to drafting laws.
Dr. Barbara Messinger-Rapport, geriatrics chief at the Cleveland Clinic, noted that half of people 85 and older in developed countries have some dementia, usually Alzheimer's.
He ticks off big problems: a dearth of doctors who specialize in geriatrics, meager funding for prevention of diseases like Alzheimer's, and fragmented long-term care services.
The Frank Kiang Medical Center is one of four AHS satellite clinics, and connects patients with health services ranging from perinatal care to geriatrics and everything in between.
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And, Ken, you'll recall it was a little discouraging because basically everyone else who lived there was 20 or 25. (Laughter.) So we were the two geriatrics in this building.
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Older people who engage in a lot of social interactions stay young for their chronological age, argues John Rowe, a professor of medicine and geriatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
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Just two weeks ago, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society revealed that deadly combinations of common medications such as antidepressants and antihistamines are killing the elderly at alarming rates .
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There is a need to ensure that students of nursing - our future staff nurses who will be looking after me when I am older - are able to care confidently and competently for older people - geriatrics.
As a nursing student I was privileged to take a course that instilled in me the skills required to care for geriatrics patients, responding to their unique needs as people who have a number of concurrent illnesses and take a variety of medications.
Diabetes patients may be active and otherwise healthy, but "on the other end of the spectrum are very frail, sick older patients with other major health problems, " says panel member Jeffrey Halter, director of the geriatrics center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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