Service Information
Elliot Lake - Regional Outpatient Geriatric Medicine Clinic
North East Specialized Geriatric Centre
Category: Geriatric Medicine Clinic
Service Details
Description:

Every patient referred will receive a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) completed by a geriatric assessor (GA) and the geriatrician/care of the elderly physician. The CGA guides a multidimensional specialized geriatric team approach to care that determines a frail older adult’s biomedical, psychosocial, functional, and environmental needs. The team initiates an appropriate treatment and follow-up plan developed with the patient/family/care partner and integrated with primary care, NELHIN Home and Community Care as well as other care partners along the specialized geriatric services (SGS) continuum of care.


Eligibility Criteria
Other Criteria:
Minimum Age: 65 yrs
Criteria:
  • Multiple complex medical and psycho-social problems and/or
  • A recent unexplained decline in health and/or level of function and/or
  • Geriatric syndromes (incontinence, falls, pressure ulcers, delirium, cognition, polypharmacy, functional decline)