Chad Boult, who was the lead investigator of the St. Paulstudy and a geriatrician at the University of Minnesota, can tell you. |
Dr. Snaedal, a geriatrician from Reykjavik in Iceland, says this is happening throughout Europe, in the US and across Asia and Latin America. |
This is a first in Canada. Nowhere else has a City Council been directly involved in funding the hiring of a geriatrician. |
In the story of Jean Gavrilles and her geriatrician, there's a lesson about frailty. |
As a geriatrician with more than a decade of direct patient care, I have seen this happen repeatedly. |
Following the assessment, the geriatrician refers or directs the person to the appropriate resource. |