Showing posts with label Geriatric Physician in staten island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geriatric Physician in staten island. Show all posts

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Are Your Concerned About Your Elderlies?

Elderlies require utmost care and love and when it comes to medical treatment, they require special attention and care.

Usually, most of us take our grandparents to hospitals or clinics, when they are not well. What if they are not fit to go to a hospital? Will you still force them to go to hospital? Well, this is wrong! When you have geriatrics medical professional in your vicinity, then why aren’t you calling them right at your place for medical treatment of your elderly?

Elderly patients commonly face problems like incontinence, immobility, osteoporosis, instability, obesity, memory loss, gastrointestinal disturbances, lung problems and insufficient blood supply etc. To treat all these problems besides doctors, there are other health professionals as well, who can very well handle such medical issues. Here I am talking about geriatrics.

Geriatric physician in Staten Island or elsewhere are special health care professionals who are specialized in medical field for treating the disease of old aged people. Besides this, they are also deal with the psychology, economic and social aspects of the elderly.

In detail, here are the duties that fulfilled by the geriatrics:
  • Firstly, they identifying the problems of elderly. Based on that, they provide medical treatment to the patients.
  • Likewise, doctor’s, geriatrics also informs the patient's family about the problems and the steps required to take to treat the problem.
  • A proper counseling provided that help patients to lead a comfortable life.
  • Care planning done with the elderly’s family, so that they can take a good care of them at home.
  • If in case there is any serious issue, they will refer the patient to a doctor who is specialized in treating the problem.
  • If needed, they also arrange rehabilitation centers and nursing homes for the patients, so that they can treat the patients even better via keeping them in front of their eyes all the time.
  • Crisis intervention is also a part of duty of geriatrics.
Sometimes, geriatric also have to handle front office duties. This includes medical transcription of documents, maintaining records of elderlies (physical reports, clinic notes, operative reports, consultation notes, X-ray reports, pathology reports, psychiatric evaluations, laboratory reports, discharge summaries etc.

As the number of aged population is growing, the need for geriatric physician in Staten Island or elsewhere has also increased. They are best health care professional that provides medical treatment to elderly and disabled.