GERIATRICS
Your medical needs will be more complex as you are getting aged, and that’s why you need customized care. The team of experienced doctor at Texas Health Providers are providing health care to adult both men and women of all ages in Dallas TX. Our doctors are always well-prepared and attuned to treat the older men and women as they need most complex health issues when they enter advanced age. You can call our medical care office today to schedule an appointment online.
Geriatrics
Geriatric care is provided in the mode of follow-up care beds and the majority of our patients are mainly seniors over 60 years of age, who usually have several diseases at the same time. We most often encounter patients who have neurological, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
We treat patients with diseases of the digestive system, psychiatric diagnosis, skin diseases, and oncology patients. We also treat conditions after various operations, joint replacements, injuries, skeletal and muscular system.
Geriatrics is a science that studies the diseases of people of older age groups, the basics of diagnosis, rehabilitation, and prevention. Geriatrics is also a branch of gerontology that deals with the biological, social and psychological aspects of human aging. The age group that falls under the responsibility of the science of geriatrics are people over 60-75 years old. The tasks of geriatrics include the study of:
- Features of the course of diseases
- Opportunities to influence the aging process
- Clinical picture of ailments
- Treatment and prevention of diseases
What is geriatric care?
Geriatrics generally concerns patients over 60 years old, but it is not the only criterion. Indeed, most elderly patients suffering from a well-defined acute problem will be treated in another service, that of the specialty best able to treat this problem.
Geriatrics is aimed above all at fragile elderly patients who, after an acute problem and if they are not taken care of comprehensively and intensively, would run the risk of declining functionally. These are complicated, unstable patients, at risk of falling, delirium, malnutrition and who require many adjustments.
Geriatrics is dedicated to the study and treatment of diseases related to aging. It is also preventive medicine that offers a global approach, and it’s medicine for the old. However, geriatrics is also a preventive medicine that makes it possible to anticipate the appearance or the evolution of diseases as one advances in age. Geriatrics is a branch of medicine that takes into account and explores all the pathologies of the elderly. It aims to minimize the impact of aging on a person.
Time and the relational dimension take an important place in geriatric care.
If geriatrics is not different from other specialties, the patient is always at the center of concerns, and the advanced age of people induces different questions, sometimes difficult to manage: serious illnesses, loss of autonomy, and end of life.
When to consult the geriatrician?
It is the attending physician who generally directs his patients to a geriatrician according to the needs of preservation of autonomy, treatment and care. The geriatrician works in a nursing home, or at a health care clinic that a multidisciplinary approach in conjunction with specialized teams, its expertise makes it possible to take care of the elderly in maintaining their functional, psychological and cognitive capacities, through an adaptive health care plan.
The pathologies which strike the elderly are in their majority identical to those which affect the youngest, but they occur for the most part more often.
This increase in the frequency of illnesses is linked to the gradual decrease in the immune system. The geriatrician has multiple conditions to treat, and let us mention in particular:
- Sensory deficits, such as deafness or visual impairment;
- Falls and trauma, which can have more serious consequences than at a younger age;
- Neurological diseases, such as dementia;
- Cardiovascular and respiratory pathologies;
- Bone demineralization and joint wear;
- Nutritional disorders;
- Or sleep disturbances.
Who provides geriatric care?
Geriatric care is necessary for the elderly, since geriatricians have the knowledge to help people of senile age. A geriatrician should not only know senile diseases, but study the features of the course of these ailments, since in old age diseases do not come one by one, but at once with a whole.
The elderly often suffer from poly-pathologies. Geriatric care is therefore designed in a multidisciplinary way to adapt the care, investigations and therapies to the state of health, the physical and cognitive autonomy and the expectations of the patient and his relatives.
At Texas Health Providers, our geriatrician works in different sectors of activity, and a central player in the care of patients in aftercare and rehabilitation establishments for the care of elderly patients hospitalized following the decompensation of a pathology or in the aftermath of a surgery.
Its role is to accompany the patient in his process of rehabilitation to acts of daily life, to detect or prevent organ failures and to adapt therapies. Its role is essential in the patient’s life plan and orientation towards the most suitable place to live.
Our geriatricians at Texas Health Providers plays an essential role within EHPADs as coordinating doctor. Our work is to define the care project of the establishment and to promote relevant and adapted care for each person in our clinic through a personalized care plan always with the aim of maintaining or even improving the capacities of our clinic.
Geriatric care in our Texas Health Providers also ensures the design of tailor-made therapeutic activities and non-drug and fun care. With psychological aids, individual workshops, discussion groups, and activities, our geriatricians maintain and rehabilitate the capacities of our elderly patients.
Our geriatrician participates in the accompaniment and management of pain for our patients in the case of progressive pathologies with reserved prognoses.
