Geriatric Medical/Psychiatric outpatient clinic (some clinics have combined medicine and psychiatry programs).

Provides comprehensive assessment and consultation for the older person with complex medical, psychiatric and/or functional needs. Staff provide education to patients, caregiver systems and formal health care providers.
Some specialty clinics associated with outpatient clinics focus on issues related to:

• Memory
• Continence
• Falls
• Osteoporosis
• Stay well (maintaining health)
• Mood disorders program
  

Provides assessment, initial treatment
and short-term rehabilitation plan for the older person with complex clinical problems and who requires an acute hospital admission with potential for improvement. Includes patients with medical conditions with associated psychiatric problems.

Geriatric Medical/Psychiatric Outreach Clinic (some clinics have combined medicine and psychiatry programs).

Provides comprehensive assessment
and consultation to the older person with complex needs. The health care team works with the patient, family, physician and other caregivers to optimize the patients independence and quality of life. An assessment may be provided in the community or in the outpatient clinic.

Provides inpatient consultation for elderly patients with complex problems.

Assistance with discharge plans, management of dementia and education
of staff, patients and their families.

The purpose of the Geriatric Day Hospital is to help older persons with complex health problems improve their health and optimize functioning in the community. People who have diseases typically related to aging, benefit from a multidisciplinary assessment, including a medical review by a geriatrician, and treatment for a variety of conditions.
Short term counseling and education is also available to patients and their families.

The Geriatric Assessment Unit (GAU) provides a complex health assessment to identify conditions for which curative, restorative, palliative or preventive treatment may be available. The care plan includes an assessment of the patient’s social support network, an assessment of the physical environment and establishes appropriate goals and therapeutic plans. The health care team makes recommendations to help the senior function as independently as possible.