What is Geriatric Medicine?
Geriatric Medicine is the Medical Specialty via MIR focused on the overall health of the elderly, with the aim of improving the autonomy and situation of each of the elderly it treats.
Being older does not mean being sick, nor does it mean assuming falls, fractures, memory loss, low spirits or the progressive worsening of mobility.
Sometimes chronic diseases cannot be completely cured, but the present and future capacity of the organism of each older adult and of the population as a whole can always be optimized.
How does Geriatric Medicine work?
Geriatric Medicine is not multiplying tests and treatments. It is a personalized and different medicine for each older adult, it is the specialty par excellence that should care for all older adults, especially those who are at risk of functional and clinical deterioration.
From prevention and accurate diagnosis to proper care in the last stage of chronic diseases.
With the aim of maintaining maximum functionality, prioritizing the wishes of each person and respecting their decisions and autonomy.
This is done by making an exhaustive and global assessment that allows the precise diagnosis of the vital moment of each person, from prevention, empowerment, knowledge and management of the therapeutic process.
Without forgetting the people close to the environment of the protagonist.
Health in the 21st century must adapt to this reality.
Who can access a Geriatrician?
In many communities there is Geriatric Medicine in the portfolio of public services, which must be requested from the family doctor. It is a right of all older people to have access to specialized medical assistance. But the development of this specialty is not yet universal.
And if it is far away, or not available?
Ainhoa Esteve Arríen offers the possibility of an online consultation, at home, just one click away, with the convenience of not having to travel and having access to a validated study protocol and with a geriatrician with 20 years of experience in public hospitals.
Ainhoa Esteve is a geriatrician via MIR, registered in Madrid, professor of Geriatrics at the University of Castilla La Mancha, Master in Palliative Care, Master in Health Management and Management, and teacher in the Master of Dementia at the Cardenal Herrera University, committed to the patients and their families. She is an active member of various working groups of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, the Society of Geriatric Medicine, and the British Geriatrics Society.
For more information, you can access her profile in Doctoralia, consult her website or contact her through her email [email protected] or WhatsApp.
