Melbourne Geriatric Medicine

Melbourne Geriatric Medicine, providing Geriatric services in Ringwood East, VIC, Australia.

The following description is a generic description for the category and does not necessarily reference all the services/ procedures offered by Melbourne Geriatric Medicine.

A Geriatrician is a Geriatric medicine (geriatrics) specialist. Geriatric Medicine is concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and the problems specific to ageing. Major categories of impairment that appear in elderly people include immobility, frailty, loss of balance, incontinence, impaired intellect and memory issues, as well as impaired vision and hearing loss.