Our services are provided by a team comprising of: • • • • •
Geriatrician Nurse Clinician Therapists Medical Social Worker Other healthcare professionals (where necessary)
Location
Geriatric Medicine
Basement 1
Who Can Refer To Our Services: Generally doctors from: - Polyclinics - Restructured hospitals - Interdisciplinary Departments - Family physicians (or GP)
MRT S T A T I O N
For enquiries, please call 63578013/63578014 For appointment, please call: 63577000 (Subsidised patients) 63578000 (Non-Subsidised patients) Geriatric Medicine Clinic Tan Tock Seng Hospital 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng Singapore (308433) Basement 1
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TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL 11 JALAN TAN TOCK SENG SINGAPORE 308433 TEL: 6256 6011 FAX: 6252 7282 http://www.ttsh.com.sg
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Geriatric Assessment Clinic
Clinical & Services Department
Committed Healthcare Providers
What is Geriatric Assessment?
Geriatric Assessment Clinic The clinic addresses the complex needs of the elderly person by providing a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive assessment.
It aims to:
What happens at the clinic?
• Evaluate and identify medical, functional and social disabilities of the elderly person.
First Visit
• Provide interventions aimed to prevent further disabilities.
• The patient will initially be assessed by a nurse clinician.
• Help the elderly person and his/her family identify areas of needs and develop an individualised care plan so that the elderly person can continue to live at home with his/her loved ones.
• Following this, a geriatrician will see and examine the patient. The geriatrician may require some blood tests or special investigations, such as X-rays, to be done.
Who will benefit from this assessment? Frail elderly persons aged 65 years and above who have complex health problems. These may include decline in day-to-day function, self-care abilities, mobility, weight loss and decreased appetite.
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As the first visit includes a thorough medical and nursing assessment, the whole process may take up to 2 hours.
• It is important that a family member or caregiver involved in the care of the patient accompanies the patient for the first visit to help identify areas of needs and develop an individualised care plan. • It is required that the patient brings all medications (if any) during the first visit.
Return Visits • The patient will be reviewed after two (2) weeks unless there is a need for the patient to be seen earlier. He/She can expect to have 2-3 scheduled visits. • The geriatrician will communicate the findings, diagnosis and expected plan of management. • The nurse clinician will advise the family or caregiver on strategies to care for the patient. These may include advice on patient safety, nutrition, coping with difficulty behaviours, etc. and where appropriate, referrals to community services e.g. day care or rehabilitation will be initiated. • A written plan of action and recommendations will be provided to the patients and caregiver(s).