What is Geriatric Medicine?
Geriatric medicine is a subspecialty that deals with conditions that affect older adults. This includes a primary care physician, known as a geriatrician or a gerontologist, that has distinct knowledge and skills related to the care of older adults.

Needed skills include:
Diagnostic Care: treating or diagnosing existing issues by monitoring current problems and examining new symptoms.

Therapeutic Care: focusing specifically on treatments to cure diseases.

Preventive Care: services that help prevent potential illness and detect problems before they arise.

Rehabilitative Care: administering treatment to patients with the intent of curing, improving, or preventing a worsening of a condition. For example, cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack or rehabilitation after a stroke.

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