This is the first journal to address the geriatric orthopedic patient specifically.
No agreed definition of who is a geriatric patient has yet been arrived at.
It fell even more for geriatric patients - by no less than a third in the same period (Cm 1513, 1991).
The hospital started to take in geriatric patients in the 1970s.
By 1965 an additional five wards had been converted to accommodate geriatric patients.
Customers range from 3-year-olds (with adult supervision) to geriatric patients.
Herzog Hospital has 330 beds, 70 percent designated for geriatric patients.
Most of her experience was with young orthopedic and geriatric patients.
The hospital includes a 22-bed psychiatric ward for geriatric patients.
He then worked with geriatric and pediatric patients for eleven years.