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Geriatrics: Help Wanted (and Needed)
on Focus on Geriatric Medicine and Aging
Eighty million Americans will be above age 65 by the year 2030. This projection offers clear warning that our health care system needs more specialists in geriatric medicine. So, how does the practice of geriatrics compare to internal medicine? How can our policies encourage an influx of geriatricians? Host Dr. Bill Rutenberg talks with Dr. Ken Brummel-Smith, professor of geriatrics at Florida State University College of Medicine.
 Dr. Ken Brummel-Smith is the Charlotte Edwards Maguire professor of geriatrics and the founding chair of the department of geriatrics at Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine in Pensacola, Floria. Prior to coming to the FSU College of Medicine, Dr. Brummel-Smith served as the medical director to the PACE Elderplace program in Portland, Oregon. He also served as Bain Chair of the Providence Center on Aging and as professor of family medicine at the Oregon Health Sciences University. He has served as the section chief for geriatrics in the department of family medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, and as division chief of geriatrics in the department of medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. He is past president and past chairman of the board of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Brummel-Smith's research has addressed the effect of a support group on caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the effect of routinely discussing preferences for CPR upon admission to a rehabilitation hospital, methods of assessing pain in persons with Alzheimer’s disease, outcomes of end-of-life care planning in frail elders, and the use of a risk assessment screening tool in a Medicare HMO.
Dr. Bill Rutenberg, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, is a practicing pediatrician and partner at Grove Pediatrics in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He also practices medical acupuncture at the Illinois Institute of Medical Acupuncture and is the director of the Attention Deficit Disorder Test Center, both located in Buffalo Grove.
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