elderly patient
Geriatric care recipient
An elderly patient is a person receiving medical care who is advanced in age, typically over 65.
The phrase appears frequently in healthcare contexts where age affects treatment decisions, drug dosages, or risk factors: The elderly patient presented with confusion and dehydration.
Medical literature often uses the term to flag age-related considerations.
- geriatricRelating to elderly care
- senior citizenAged person, typically retired
- old ageAdvanced years of life
- frailWeak and breakable
- nursing homeLong-term eldercare residence
memory care · home health aide · wheelchair · walker · medication · bedridden · hospital bed · bed sores · hospital gown · vitals · blood pressure · dementia · fragile · wrinkled · gray hair · chronic · hospice · bedside
- patientsinpatients, inpatient, outpatients, outpatient