Gastroenterology and Digestive Disorders Conference

Geriatrics and Psychological Illness

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Geriatric medicine is the subspecialty of Internal Medicine or family medicine that concerns with complicated psychosocial issues of old adults. A geriatrician has depth knowledge of the Aging process and skills in the diagnosis, preventive, and rehabilitation in elderly people. Because of the era of quick aging, geriatrics has developed as a territory of medication concentrating on health promotion and the treatment of ailments and disability in later life. While most care of the elderly taken by essential care doctors, family doctors, and general internists. Elderly patients frequently have numerous co-morbidities, under various medications, and may feel helplessness, or financial difficulties. Communication can be a problem by hearing or visually disable individuals. So the internists are well equipped with the skills of handling elderly patients and treating them in a graceful way.