Gerontology

The Townsville HHS Gerontology Department is a multidisciplinary unit with staff specially trained in caring for the elderly in the North Queensland community.

Services:

• Medical care to patients in Medical Ward 5 (delirium-dementia)
• Geriatric evaluation and management
• Orthogeriatric shared care program
• Transition care program (Elder Care Team provides this discharge service)
• Comprehensive research and training program
• Adjunct lectureship with JCU
• ACAT assessments for those requiring placement from hospital
• Falls and balance
• Telehealth to rural and remote areas
• Inpatient Telehealth
• Specialist clinics - 65 years or older (50+ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
• Age-aware clinic - memory loss/cognition
• Falls/balance clinic - falls/mobility/immobility
• Geriatric review clinic - general medicine in the older person - e.g. general health in old age, Parkinson's disease in old age, osteoporosis etc.
• Community Geriatric clinic
• OncoGeriatric clinic
• Frailty Intervention Team (FIT)
• TeleGero medicine clinic

Via Telegero, a televised link, we are able to provide specialist services to rural and remote hospital areas including, but not limited, to the following areas:-

• Ayr
• Bowen
• Charters Towers
• Clermont
• Cloncurry
• Collinsville
• Home Hill
• Hughenden
• Ingham
• Mackay
• Mornington Island
• Mt Isa
• Proserpine
• Richmond
• Sarina
• Winton (but can be extended outside these areas).
• Referrals

Referrals can be made by any medical practitioner