Specialist Services
Specialist Clinics Geriatric Medicine
AGE 65 AND OLDER
- HIV/AIDS medicine for the older persons
- Telemedicine for rural and remote regions of Australia and Hong Kong, SAR, China including follow up visits
- Memory disorders, cognitive impairment and dementia
- Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD)
- Parkinson’s disease/Parkinson’s syndromes
- Falls/Re-fracture prevention clinic/syncope
- Chronic pain, frailty, reduced mobility
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment including patients with multiple co-morbidities or chronic illnesses
- Medication review and rationalisation, Polypharmacy
- Depressive and anxiety disorders
- Patients living in residential aged care facilities
- Rehabilitation and restorative care
- Perioperative assessment
- Not coping at Home, needing residential aged care placement
- Assistance and advice regarding the ACAT process
- End of life care, palliative care and advanced care planning
Specialist Clinics - General Internal Medicine
AGE 16 OR OLDER
- Patients with multiple co-morbidities or chronic illnesses
- Younger patients with issues listed in Geriatric Medicine
- Patients with new onset dementia syndromes (<65 years of age)
- Undifferentiated symptoms and medical conditions
- Chronic cardiac failure
- Constipation/faecal impaction
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Drug and alcohol outpatient service
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/Pulmonary embolism (PE)
- Dyspnoea on exertion
- Gout and pseudogout
- High INR (on warfarin) without bleeding or bleeding risk
- Electrolyte imbalance, including hyponatraemia (Sodium more than 130)
- Iron deficiency anaemia (if elderly patient or previously investigated) and Ferinject iron infusion service
- Osteoporosis
- Palliative care outpatient service
- Viral illness
Home Visiting and
Residental Aged Care Facility
Visiting Services
Community based team
Providing multidisciplinary assessment, management and care to older patients in their own homes or residential aged care facilities
Telemedicine for rural and remote regions of Australia and Hong Kong, SAR, China with follow up visits
Liverpool Hospital is located approximately 50 minutes drive from the Sydney CBD. It began as a tent hospital for convicts and soldiers 200 years ago and now provides a health service of international standing, with 23 operating theatres, capacity for 887 beds, diagnostic and imaging services, emergency and trauma care, maternity, paediatric, cancer care, mental health, ambulatory care, allied health and medical and surgical services from birth to aged care.
Private Hospital Inpatient Services
Based in the Emergency Department, I provide holistic assessment and management plans of complex, older patients presenting to ED.
On the acute medical ward, I provide holistic multidisciplinary assessment, management and care to acutely unwell, complex older patients.
On the subacute medical/rehabilitation ward, I provide holistic multidisciplinary assessment, management and care to complex older patients requiring further optimisation of their cognition, function and/or mobility, to formulate goals and an appropriate discharge plan.
On the surgical, urological and orthopaedics wards, I provide holistic assessment and management of medical and perioperative issues, mental health, geriatric and rehabilitation issues in older patients with a fractured neck of femur, fall, fracture, or major surgery.
