Clinical Services

In-Patient Services

Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit (Parkwood Institute) - The Geriatric Rehabilitation Unit (GRU) is a 30 bed unit at Parkwood Institute (William and Lynn Gray Building). The unit is staffed by Geriatricians and an NP, as well as a full compliment of allied health. In general, the patients on the GRU are medically stable from the acute issue that brought them into hospital, but need rehabilitation to return to independence. Length of stay is typically 3-4 weeks. The GRU manages a wide spectrum of issues: from primary and secondary prevention strategies, to caring for chronic diseases, to managing acute medical illnesses. Most of our patients are referred from acute care after their medical illness has been treated, and about 75% of them will be post-hip fracture patients.

Consult Liaison Service (Victoria Hospital or Univeristy Hospital) - The Consultation Liaison (CL) Service is an acute care combined geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry consultation service that operates at each acute care site of LHSC. The team is composed of NPs, geriatricians and a psychiatrist. During this rotation, in conjunction with other team members, the team provides comprehensive geriatric and psycho-geriatric assessments on medically and cognitively frail elderly inpatients(65 and older) with complex geriatric medical issues, geriatric psychiatric issues or both.

Outreach Service

The Geriatric Outreach Services works with an interdisciplinary team providing geriatric consultations in residential settings (home, retirement home, LTC) within urban and rural Southwestern Ontario.  

Geriatric Medicine Clinics

• General Geriatric Medicine
• Aging Brain 
• Falls 
• Osteoporosis 
• ACE F/U
• GeriHemeOnc 
• Semi Urgent Geneneral Geriatric