geriatric care
Senior health services
Geriatric care is medical and supportive services focused on the health needs of elderly people.
It addresses the particular challenges of aging—chronic conditions, cognitive decline, mobility issues, medication management—often coordinating across multiple specialists.
Her mother's geriatric care team included a physician, physical therapist, and social worker.
- assisted livingResidential care for elderly
- chronic diseasePersistent medical condition
- round the clockContinuous, without interruption
- hospice servicesSupport for the terminally ill
- medication managementCoordinating drug therapy safely
pill organizer · caregiver · cognitive therapy · nursing home · aging in place · mobility aids · sundowning · senior moment · polypharmacy · do not resuscitate · fall prevention · bed sores · depression treatment · rehabilitation therapy · family meeting · bedside · anxiety management · Medicare
- Elder Lawelder abuse, elder rights, elder neglect, eldercare, senior services
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, clinic
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
- pharmacypharmacist, pharmacy, prescription, dispensing, prescriptions
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
- nursingnurse, nursing, nurses, RN, LPN
geriatric carepediatric care
Medical services for children
pediatrics · neonatal care · child healthcare · infant care · newborn care