Medicine in Old Age – Tomorrow: Report
April 2, 2024
How do we find the right balance in medical care for older people? Sacha Beck, an expert in geriatrics, shares his vision of needs-orientated geriatric medicine that avoids inappropriate care in the Morgen:Rapport podcast.
Eliane Pfister Lipp, Director of the Neumünster Institute, in conversation with Sacha Beck, geriatrician and founder of Age Medical AG in Zurich. They discuss the challenges and solutions in the medical care of older people.
The conversation focuses on how needs-orientated and interprofessional geriatric medicine can help to ensure that older patients are neither over- nor under-treated. Beck sheds light on which new care models are necessary and which structural framework conditions need to be created in order to improve the quality of geriatric medicine. The episode "Medicine in old age" sheds light on the need to expand geriatric expertise and adapt medical care to demographic developments.
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