Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...

INTRODUCTION Training of future physicians in the care of elderly patients will need to evolve in accordance with the exponential increase of elderly patients, but some may have preconceived attitudes affecting their management. This study determined medical students' attitudes towards older people and their willingness to consider a career in Geriatric Medicine. MATERIALS AND METHODS All 250...

The aging of the US population poses one of the greatest future challenges for family practice residency graduates. At a time when our discipline should be strengthening geriatric education to address the needs of our aging population, the Group on Geriatric Education of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine believes that recent guidelines from important family medicine organizations sugge...

BACKGROUND To meet the needs of the ageing population, more geriatric medicine doctors are required. We aimed to determine: (i) career preferences of junior doctors with an interest in geriatric medicine, (ii) factors influencing the likelihood of junior doctors undertaking a career in geriatric medicine and (iii) whether a geriatric medicine conference for junior doctors influenced their views...

Nathan T. Jenkins, Rian Q. Landers, Steven J. Prior, Naina Soni, Espen E. Spangenburg, and James M. Hagberg Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College Park; Department of Medicine -Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; and Baltimore Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center and Research and ...

The emergency department (ED) is commonly the point of entry to the medical system for older adults, who present with a wide variety of problems. Although the ED is generally thought of as a location for the diagnosis and treatment of acute medical and surgical emergencies, it may also be the access point for older adults with chronic conditions or social and psychiatric problems. For younger a...

Yoichi Ezura, Hironori Iwasaki, Ryota Ishida, Masataka Shiraki, Satoshi Inoue, Takayuki Hosoi, Hideyo Yoshida, Takao Suzuki, Hajime Orimo and Mitsuru Emi Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Gerontology, Nippon Medical School Research Institute and Practice for Involutional Diseases Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo Department of Internal Medici...

David G. Cook, Xiaofan Li, Sheree D. Cherry, and Angela R. Cantrell Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Seattle, Washington; Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Washington; and Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennes...

OBJECTIVE This article reviews the assessment and management of psychiatric problems among the oldest old. METHOD The author reviewed the English-language literature pertinent to the characteristics of people 85 years old or older and the assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in this age group with a special focus on depression in the oldest old. RESULTS Much of the current lit...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To foster interest in geriatric care, the Queen's Geriatrics Interest Group (QGIG) collaborated with the Division of Geriatric Medicine to arrange a Geriatrics Pre-Clerkship Observership Program. METHODS Forty-two pre-clerkship medical students participated in the program between October 2013 and May 2014. Participants were paired with a resident and/or attending physic...