Collection: Geriatric Medicine

People aged 65+ years account for 20 per cent of presentations to emergency departments and nine percent of hospital admissions in Australia. By 2057, this age demographic is predicted to represent 22 per cent of
the population (an increase from 15 per cent in 2017).

GPs play a key role in delivering high-quality primary care to these patients. Given their knowledge of the patient, including social context and history, GPs are ideally placed to focus on prevention and early-stage identification of chronic health problems in older patients which are a common presentation in general practice.