Specialist Services
Specialist Clinics Geriatric Medicine
AGE 65 AND OLDER
- HIV/AIDS Medicine/Prescription for Older Persons
- Memory Disorders, Cognitive Impairment And Dementia
- Behavioural And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia (BPSD)
- Parkinson’s Disease/Parkinson’s Syndromes
- Falls/Recurrent Falls/Syncope
- Chronic Pain, Frailty/ Reduced Mobility
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Including Patients With Multiple Co-Morbidities or Chronic Illnesses
- Medication Review And Rationalisation
- 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-Assist And Advice Regarding The ACAT Process.
- End Of Life 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
- COPD
- Drug and Alcohol Outpatient Service (starting in April, 2018)
- DVT/PE
- Dyspnoea on exertion
- Gout and pseudo gout
- High INR without bleeding or bleeding risk
- Hyponatraemia (Sodium more than 130)
- Iron Deficiency Anaemia (if elderly patient or previously investigated)
- Osteoporosis
- Palliative Care Outpatient Service
- Viral illness
Home Visiting and
Residental Aged Care Facility
Visiting Services
- Direct admission under my personal care at the Residential Aged Care Facilities
- Community Based Team including Specialist Geriatricians and GPs
- Providing Multidisciplinary Assessment, Management And Care To Older Patients in Residential Aged Care Facilities
- Other home visiting services at your home if clinically indicated
Liverpool Public Teaching Hospital
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 healt 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. Acute medical ward, providing multidisciplinary assessment, management and care to acutely unwell, complex older patients.
Subacute medical ward, providing multidisciplinary assessment, management and care to complex older patients requiring further optimisation of their cognition, function and/or mobility, with ongoing subacute medical problems.
Orthogeriatric Service - assess and manage medical and geriatric issues in older patients with a fractured neck of femur.
