Geriatrics

Key Principals Addressed

• Holistic approach rather than organ specific.
• Giants: intellectual impairment, incontinence, instability.
• Immobility Community care [day care clinics, support groups]

Goals Of Care

• Enabling functional independence
• Improving QUALITY OF LIFE
• Prevention of neglect and abuse
• Address memory and psychiatric issues.
• To address family and care giver issues

Levels Of Care Offered

Out patient care

Daily OPD

• Comprehensive assessment on wednesday
• Assessment is Different : aim is QOL
• Physical assessment
• Mental assessment
• Function assessment
• Social assessment
• Medication compliance assessment and counseling and education
  • Nutritional advice.
  • SUPPORT : dental, orthopedics, opthalmology, ENT

Special OPD Clinics

• Adult vaccination clinic
• Memory clinic
• Fall and Bone clinic
• Inpatient care : with rehabilitation and palliative
• Geriatric emergency care

Novel Care

• Speech and dysphagia assessment and strategy planning
• Physiotherapy and rehabilitation
• Palliative
• Day Care

Day Care Centre

• Addresses geriatric giants –Imbalance, Depression ,Memory and Incontinence
• Immediate measures and preventing hospital admission.
• Planning for home care with key investigation
• Blood transfusion
• Exercise and rehabilitation.

Home Care: Doctor, Nurses, Physiotherapist Visits

• Minor procedures like iv lines urinary catheter insertion, Ryles tube insertion.
• Nebulisations, suctioning,
• Medication management

Doctor Visit: Consultation, Home Visit or Teleconsultation

• Comprehensive care assessment
• Assessment based on needs

Nurses

• Blood collection
• Iv lines and urinary catheter insertion, Ryles tube insertion.
• Nebulisations, suctioning,
• Medication management
• Bed sore care

Physiotherapy: On Site or by Teleconsultation

Basic and packages

• App based training programme
• Exercise videos

Counseling And Psychiatrist Services: Site Visit And Teleconsultation

Membership and teleconsultaion

• Annual
• Lifetime

Package

• 2 doctor visit per month
• Emergency calls taken
• Hospital admission on bed availability
• Blood collection free for two visits in a month
• 4 sessions of physiotherapy free

Publications

• The department has had many publications in field of geriatrics.
• The department has received best geriatric department from Karnataka state health care awards.
• Dr Pratibha has received award for service in field of geriatrics.

Staff Of Department

Dr Pratibha Pereira Professor and HOD dept of Geriatrics

Areas of Specialization and Experience

• Geriatrics
• Clinical research
• Standards of Quality for hospital

Other Related Activities

• Talks on health care in elderly and active aging at various forums, and Udaya T.V Live and Mysuru Akashwani and various forums.
• Part of national colloquim on elderly care in India.
• NABH assessor for Hospitals
• Technical committee member of the ethics committee accreditation for NABH
• Was a part of ICMR sub committee for the revision of guidelines

• Ginkocer Trial in Elderly
• Hypertension Survey in Elderly
• Bone Disorders Survey in Elderly
• Drug Compliance in the Elderly
• Assessment of creatinine clearance 6 by UV/P in the Elderly
• Comparison of Pneumococcal Vaccine with 3 weekly injections of 1.2 million Units of Benzathine Penicillin in Pneumococcal infections Postgraduate Reasearch
• Nutritional assessment in elderly with intervention.
• Zinc deficience in elderly with intervention.

Involved in public education of elderly issues
Training of aspiring researches on ethics in biomedical research and GCP
Publication : more than 50

• In national and international journals.
• Conducted trials as a principal investigator

Awards

• Distingushed alumni award
• Young scientist award by API
• Double Helical award for services in geriatrics
• Recognition for work done in Quality by NABH
• Recognition award for sensitizing on GCP.

Life member of

• GSI and IGS
• API
• RSSDI
• ISCR
• FERCI