When to start a geriatric assessment with an older person?
When to start a geriatric assessment with an older person?
Am Fam Physician. 2011 Jan 1;83 (1):48-56. The geriatric assessment is a multidimensional, multidisciplinary assessment designed to evaluate an older person’s functional ability, physical health, cognition and mental health, and socioenvironmental circumstances. It is usually initiated when the physician identifies a potential problem.
Who are the caregivers in a geriatric clinic?
Geriatrics by its very nature is multidisciplinary, and good geriatric care is team care. Your clinic nursing staff will play a critical role in collecting and assessing patients and their caregivers. Indeed, your office staff will often be the first to alert you to a change in a patient.
What should be the primary care goal for geriatric patients?
Effective primary care management of geriatric health issues, with its goal of caring for healthy and functional elderly patients, may perhaps be better described as comprehensive health screening.
What does functional status mean in a geriatric assessment?
Functional status refers to a person’s ability to perform tasks that are required for living. The geriatric assessment begins with a review of the two key divisions of functional ability: activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL).
Am Fam Physician. 2011 Jan 1;83 (1):48-56. The geriatric assessment is a multidimensional, multidisciplinary assessment designed to evaluate an older person’s functional ability, physical health, cognition and mental health, and socioenvironmental circumstances. It is usually initiated when the physician identifies a potential problem.
Geriatrics by its very nature is multidisciplinary, and good geriatric care is team care. Your clinic nursing staff will play a critical role in collecting and assessing patients and their caregivers. Indeed, your office staff will often be the first to alert you to a change in a patient.
Effective primary care management of geriatric health issues, with its goal of caring for healthy and functional elderly patients, may perhaps be better described as comprehensive health screening.
Functional status refers to a person’s ability to perform tasks that are required for living. The geriatric assessment begins with a review of the two key divisions of functional ability: activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL).