BACKGROUND Telemedicine has the potential to improve access to the specialty of geriatric medicine, particularly in rural and remote settings. While telemedicine is widely used in some specialities, this is not yet the case in geriatric medicine. OBJECTIVE To review the current literature to identify proven and potential strategies for application of telemedicine in geriatric medical practice...

Geriatric hip fracture management requires a specialized treatment algorithm secondary to the complex medical and social needs of this patient demographic. The overall goal of the treatment is early mobilization, in an effort to prevent the complications associated with prolonged recumbency and to return the patient to functional activity. There is near-universal agreement among orthopedic surg...

One of the most difficult problems in health care policy is adjusting payment to activity. Particularly little is known about how resources are allocated to departments of geriatric care. To investigate whether departments of geriatric medicine in Stockholm, Sweden relate their costs to case-mix, one of the most well-known case-mix systems for geriatric care, the Resource Utilization Groups, ve...

An 80-year old man was admitted suffering from a painful, enlarged right testicle for approximately one month. His medical history revealed a transurethral resection of the prostate for benign hyperplasia seven years before. The resection, performed in another hospital, was complicated by recurrent strictures of the urethra and several episodes of lower urinary tract infection. Internal urethro...

Abdominal pain in the elderly can be a challenging and difficult condition to diagnose and treat. The geriatric population has significant comorbidities and often takes polypharmacy that can mask symptoms. The presentation of common conditions can be different than that in the younger population, often lacking the traditional indicators of disease, making it of pivotal importance for the clinic...