Medical Clinic of Houston, LLP offers a very experienced and skilled local geriatric medicine doctor near me in Houston, TX, and the surrounding areas. This skilled physician will work with you to improve your health, independence, and quality of life – evaluating optimal treatments or providing ongoing management – all for you to achieve the best quality of life possible during your golden years.
Geriatrics is a subspecialty of Internal Medicine and is a healthcare specialty exclusively dedicated to providing high-quality, comprehensive specialty care targeted toward the needs of the elderly, sometimes frail, individuals. Its focus is solely on treating senior adults, age 65 and older. After four years of medical school, doctors complete three years of a residency in internal medicine. Once a doctor completes an internal medicine residency, and completes a one or two year fellowship in geriatric medicine, she is subsequently referred to as a geriatric specialist, or geriatrician, and is equipped to deal with most problems the older patient brings – no matter how common or rare, or how simple or complex.
A geriatric specialist handles the broad and comprehensive spectrum of illnesses that affect senior adults, from short-term care to chronically ill patients to include patients with memory or functional deficits, individuals with social situations that impact their care, stroke patients or those with mobility problems, and those who require long-term pain control.
A geriatrician is recognized as an expert in diagnosis, treatment of multiple chronic conditions, health promotion, and disease prevention – they are not limited to one type of medical problem or organ system. A geriatrician focuses on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, Cognitive Disorders Management, Functional Assessments, Lifestyle Medicine, Medication Overload Management, and Cancer Care support. Geriatric physicians are trained to solve puzzling diagnostic problems and can handle severe or multiple chronic illnesses and situations where several different illnesses may strike at the same time.
Board Certified Geriatric Medicine Doctor
Our board-certified geriatric medicine doctor, who completed four years of medical school, three years of residency in internal medicine, and two additional years of a geriatric fellowship, is considered expert at diagnosing and treating chronic illness, as well as promoting the best health and preventing disease in the senior (over 64) adult.
Geriatric Medicine Doctor
Medical Clinic of Houston, LLP’s geriatric medicine doctor will work with you to treat and prevent conditions that affect the senior adult. She specializes in the older adult’s internal organs and systems and knows how to diagnose conditions that affect these systems. She can help you receive the best treatment possible to alleviate, mitigate, or best manage those conditions. Additionally our geriatric doctor can help evaluate potential overload of multiple prescriptions.
Geriatric Specialist
Our geriatric specialist is a doctor who specialize in internal medicine for any adults over 64, and conditions that affect the older body’s organs. Geriatricians are very skilled at knowing how the systems of the older adult body work, what afflicts them, and how to treat and manage these conditions and diseases.
Female Geriatric Medicine Physicians
Medical Clinic of Houston, LLP provides the most skilled female geriatric medicine physician in Houston, TX, and the surrounding areas. She is skilled at diagnosing conditions and diseases that afflict the older body’s organs and systems, and determining the best course of treatment or action to help alleviate or cure conditions so that your quality of living is improved.
Contact us to experience the quality of care we provide to our patients. Let us help you to achieve and maintain the best health possible.
