Geriatric practice.

Geriatric Assessment and Community Practice

Geriatric practice in Malaysia: issues and challenges.

Early exposure to geriatric care: developing an undergraduate internship in ethics and geriatric practice

According to the United States Census Bureau, there was a 15.1% increase in the sixty-five and older population between 2000 and 20101 and is expected to climb to 16.3% by 2020.2 In addition, older adults have shown a greater need for health care resource utilization in America; while only 12.8% of the U.S. population in 2008, older adults accounted for 26% of office visits, 35% of hospital sta...

Occupational Stress among Australia Podiatrist in general and geriatric practice

Conclusions Working with the elderly is a significant part of podiatry practice and as such needs to be seen with more positive attitude by many practitioners. The development of geriatric practice as a speciality within the profession may help to raise the value of working with the elderly. This has implications for preparing podiatrists for practice with the geriatric population along with th...

The guide to psychological practice in geriatric long - term care

As in most fields, the development of basic knowledge precedes and is in turn enhanced by practice informed by research and lived experience. Likewise, earlier stages in the development of gerontology were focused on synthesizing and teaching research findings about older adults. As with the genesis of any new specialized field, there has been a gradual application of this knowledge into servic...