Dr. Sier explains the background and benefits of specialized geriatric medicine.
Speaker:
Herbert Sier, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, and associate chief of geriatric medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Panel description:
Today, well before the Boomer pig-in-the-python has hit, a little more than 12.7 percent of Americans are over of 65 and the health care system is struggling to care for them. The problem is finding people with the high- and low-level skills needed to deliver care. This session will focus on what those in medicine, nursing, rehabilitation and in-home care are doing to maximize resources for increasingly long-lived seniors and what they are doing to plan for the future.
