Geriatric Medicine Center
Introduction to the Center
Omni-Directional Treatment by a Specialized Elderly Care Team
Specializing in adult and senile diseases, Seoul National university Bundang Hospital is operating a medical center for the elderly and a ward specializing in elderly care.
Elderly patients who usually have 4~5 kinds of chronic diseases and degenerative diseases simultaneously should be diagnosed and treated by collaborating specialists from many clinical departments in many cases.
For elderly patients suffering from composite problems, a team dedicated to geriatric medical services consisting of specialists from the Department of Internal Medicine, neurology department, neuropsychiatry department and rehabilitation medicine department and nurses specializing in elderly care, pharmacists, social welfare workers, and physical therapists is performing differentiated diagnoses and treatments suitable for the characteristics and situations of individual patients.
rehabilitation medicine department and nurses specializing in elderly care, pharmacists, social welfare workers, and physical therapists is performing differentiated diagnoses and treatments suitable for the characteristics and situations of individual patients.
Comprehensive geriatric assessment
This center developed comprehensive assessment tools including items such as physical functions like visual acuity, auditory acuity, etc., nutrition states, cognitive functions, depression, evaluation of daily life ability, risk of fall and social support, etc.. Aside from elderly patients visiting outpatient clinics, those who are hospitalized are continuously assessed, and the results are being reflected on treatments.
Operation of ward specializing in elderly care
A ward specializing in elderly care is being operated wherein treatment policies are determined by a medical service team specializing in elderly care and consisting of doctors from the geriatrics medicine department, Department of Internal Medicine for heart, neurology department, neuropsychiatry department, rehabilitation medicine department, and urology department and nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, and social welfare workers through periodic meetings.
Treatments & Services
Internal medicine for geriatric diseases: senile diseases, senile heart, vascular aging, hypertension
Internal medicine for endocrine: diabetes, osteoporosis, hyperlipidemia, thyroid, other endocrine diseases
Internal medicine for renal diseases: renal diseases
Internal medicine for Pulmonology: respiratory diseases
Internal medicine for rheumatism: rheumatism-related diseases
Neuropsychiatry: hereditary dementia, dementia, senescent reduction of cognition
Rehabilitation medicine: brain nerve rehabilitation, pains (myofascial pain, frozen shoulder, back pain, arthritis)
Neurology: nervous system diseases
Anesthesiology and pain medicine: treatment of acute and chronic pains
