The clinical efforts of the Division of Geriatric Medicine focus on the prevention and management of the complex medical, psychological, and social problems that older adults experience. Enhancing the care management of older adults, the Division's faculty provides vertically-integrated care for patients in every relevant setting, including acute care, ambulatory care, home and community based care and long term care. In addition, the faculty serves as medical directors and primary care physicians of more than half a dozen nursing homes and 3 Programs for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly.
In addition, faculty of the Division of Geriatrics staff hospitalist services for their patients and provide consultative care. A special aspect of this consult service is that many faculty members are trained in other specialty fields in addition to geriatrics. This allows them to provide geriatric-oriented input to patients with falls and gait disorders, chronic pain, osteoporosis, polypharmacy, voiding dysfunction and incontinence, depression, dementia and palliative care needs.
Being one of the largest Divisions of Geriatrics, the faculty enhances the continuum of services available to offer quality care to older adults.
The Division of Geriatric Medicine is located in Suite 500, of the Kaufmann Medical Building in the Oakland section of the city of Pittsburgh. Parking is available in the Kaufmann Garage that is accessible from fifth avenue in Oakland.