Geriatrics
Geriatrics is a medical discipline that treats patients more than 80 years old, with or without multiple conditions related to an acute episode, or who require diagnosis by a multidisciplinary team of specialists.
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Wing B - OPD 7
Conditions Frequently Treated
- Falls, balance problems, difficulty walking
- Weight loss, malnutrition
- Deterioration of the general state of health
- Neurological disorders, cognitive and/or behavioral issues
- Depression in the elderly
- Cardiac infection or decompensation in elderly polypathological patients
- Hip fracture or digestive surgery in elderly polypathological patients
- Oncogeriatrics (cancer in the elderly)
- Screening for and prevention of vulnerabilities for healthy aging
- Overall reevaluation of patients and their treatments (optimizing diagnostic and therapeutic treatments)
- Complex pain, end-of-life support in collaboration with our specialized mobile support team
Our Missions
Our unit has cross-functional missions, which are to:
- offer hospitalization to elderly persons coming directly from home or through the Medical Surgical Unit, for a worsening acute chronic condition or a surgical procedure.
- conduct an overall medical, psychological and social evaluation, with consideration of the patient experience.
- perform diagnostic tests and provide treatments that cannot be done on an out-patient basis.
- treat chronic conditions or imbalances
- provide an adapted and coordinated approach once the patient is admitted
- prevent dependency and iatrogenic complications (undesirable effects related to a medical procedure), in particular drug interaction.
Our Care Pathways
Our unit offers various care pathways, guaranteeing quality multidisciplinary medical care delivered by professionals from multiple specializations.
- In the Medical Surgical Unit, we do everything we can to minimize the patient’s waiting time and admission process. If necessary, a geriatric evaluation can be performed by a geriatric physician on site during the day. Physicians are also on call
- For hospitalization, either planned or after going through the Medical Surgical Unit, the patient is admitted for treatment by a referring physician who may be a geriatrician, or another doctor who can work directly with the geriatrician.
- For ambulatory patients (those not hospitalized), we offer:
-geriatric evaluation consultations
-preventive check-ups for healthy aging, at the check-up center
What Sets Us Apart
- A highly skilled healthcare teamAll the teams associated with the geriatric unit are specialists trained to provide individual, patient-centered, multidisciplinary medical psychosocial treatment and rehabilitation throughout the period of hospitalization.
- Availability 24/7Availability of a referring geriatrician and continuous care with a physician on call 24/7, with regular transmission of information.
- A multidisciplinary environmentBeing located in a multidisciplinary hospital allows us to offer our patients a complete range of medical surgical specialties as well as leading-edge diagnostic and testing services with quick turnaround.
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Treatments & Exams
A comprehensive, in-depth geriatric evaluation of the elderly patient in a holistic manner allows us to treat acute pathologies, reevaluate all chronic conditions and, in a preventive and systematic manner, screen for the major geriatric syndromes: memory problems, fall risk, malnutrition, depression, osteoporosis, drug interactions and therapeutic errors, etc.
The patient’s therapeutic treatment plan is developed in a multidisciplinary manner and personalized according to the patient’s needs and experiences.
The patient’s therapeutic treatment plan is developed in a multidisciplinary manner and personalized according to the patient’s needs and experiences.
- Comprehensive, standardized geriatric evaluation of the patient holistically, to treat one or more acute pathologies
- Geriatric, psychiatric and neurological diagnosis and treatment for behavioral problems in neurological diseases.
- Optimization of the therapeutic treatment choice in the event of surgery, whether emergency or not, in an at-risk elderly patient.
- Treatment by a geriatrician and an oncologist in the case of an oncological disease in a fragile elderly patient
- Treatment of balance problems through a check-up to search for risk factors for falls
- Treatment of an elderly patient for malnutrition and anorexia through a comprehensive multidisciplinary check-up.
Medical Team
DR KAROUBI Edouard
Geriatrics