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Nipissing - 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.
Languages:
English
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)