Geriatric medicine is concerned with a patient-centered, holistic approach to ensure that older adults maintain quality of life, independence, and improvements in health. You may have experienced in your life what happens when small adjustments to your health vastly improve your well-being. In the care of a geriatric doctor, you can experience the positive benefits of personalized care.

An initial consultation with a geriatric medicine specialist will ordinarily include a comprehensive geriatric assessment. Such an assessment may occur over a period of one to three visits and will include a complete medical history, physical examination, and assessment of health and relevant psychosocial, functional, and cognition issues. Follow-up consultations or tests with specialists in various fields of medicine may be scheduled. Once all consultations and tests have been completed and results received, the patient will receive recommendations for ongoing or follow-up care.

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