Geriatrics
Geriatrics or geriatric medicine is a speciality that focuses on health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults.
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: geriatrics?
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A 36-year old asked:
Does medicare cover for geriatrics?
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A 42-year old asked:
How is anti-aging medicine (aam) different from geriatrics? Is anti-aging medicine (aam) different from geriatrics?
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A 41-year old asked:
At what age should you consider seeing geriatrics doctor?
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A 40-year old asked:
Please help docs! where can I find info for inservice on UTI in geriatrics/ltc?
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A female asked:
Geriatrics doctors: are there specific physical exercises you recommend to senior or physical metrics they should track (i.E. Balance/strength)?
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A 25-year old female asked about a 82-year old male:
Can having a stroke cause dementia in geriatrics?He remembers long ago,but will repeat the same story twice in a day& not remember he already told you
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A 92-year old asked:
Geriatrics: when looking for skilled nursing care center for a 90 year old frail but social parent, what are the most important considerations?
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A 92-year old asked:
Geriatrics md: how could daughter sign mom up for nursing home without consent and then deny medical sibling access to info?
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Geriatrics md: how can nursing home refuse to share care plan with woman's child citing hipaa even before she moves in? Older nonmedical sib has poa.
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A 42-year old asked:
I woke up this morning with one eye swollen, crusty, hazy. Do I see ophthalmologist or geriatrics doc?
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A 43-year old asked:
What age does a person become a geriatric?
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A 30-year old asked:
Mental health issues with geriatric ladies==are they common?
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A 39-year old asked:
Why is geriatric nursing not a bigger part of society?
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A 41-year old asked:
When would a geriatric palliative medicine consultation be helpful?
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A 48-year old asked:
What age does a person become a "geriatric" patient and get referred?
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A 41-year old asked:
Please tell us usual diagnoses of mentally incapacitated geriatric patients.?
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A 42-year old asked:
What's a geriatric care manager do?
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A 48-year old asked:
What age can you be called geriatric vs senior?
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A 38-year old asked:
Does a geriatric assessment have more than one visit? Whats involved?
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A 38-year old asked:
How would I utilize a geriatric care manager as caregiver?
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A 47-year old asked:
What can you tell me about UTIs in geriatric patients?
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A 29-year old asked:
Do the eyes of geriatric patients turn paler in color?
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A 30-year old asked:
Why exactly does pneumonia cause dementia like symptoms in geriatric patients?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Is "geriatric pharmaton" multi vitamins really help full? Should i take it every morning?
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A 33-year old asked:
Why does pneumonia cause dementia like symptoms in geriatric patients, but not in younger ones?
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A 33-year old asked:
What is included in an assessment of a geriatric patient who has possibly experienced an acute ischemic stroke?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Which one is better? Geriatric pharmaton or ocuvite eye + multi?
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A 67-year old female asked:
Uti cleared one week. Continual concerns about delirium. Going to see a geriatric psychiatrist. Is that the right course of action?
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A 46-year old asked:
How to best handle muscular atrophy of a geriatric ak amputee's stump when not wearing the artificial le?
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