Advanced Geriatric Medicine and Healthcare

This course will address the role of geriatric medicine in the context of an aging population. We will identify and explain gaps in the health care of seniors that led to the development of geriatric medicine as a separate specialty and be able to discuss the role of geriatric medicine in the health care system. The course will consider models of frailty, methods for measuring frailty, and their implications for the health system, and discuss the epidemiology, burden of disease, and impact on health care of ¿geriatric giants¿ and common illness in older persons.