The companies also provide pharmaceutical and rehabilitation services, geriatric services and assisted-living projects.

There will, in particular, continue to be a large number of dementia sufferers in the geriatric services.

It was suggested that "such units should be part of the psychiatric service and would compare with continuing care units' of the geriatric service."

Health services will be distributed through the county, with fewer beds and more out-patient geriatric services.

However, it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services.

Established in 1946, it is a teaching hospital specializing in rehabilitation, specialized geriatric services, complex continuing care and palliative care.

Similar concern might be expressed for the continuation or development of geriatric and psychogeriatric services.

It includes a 192-bed long-term care home and provides ambulatory geriatric services.

It now serves as a community rehabilitation site, as well as offering allied health and inpatient geriatric services.

On return to Glasgow he was appointed assistant physician at the Southern General Hospital with the task of setting up a new 'geriatric service'.