Major emphases in geriatric health care as they relate to ethnically diverse older adults:
- Biopsychosocial approach: the integration of consideration of physical, psychological, and social factors in providing health care
- Use of multidisciplinary teams
- Importance of chronic illnesses and geriatric syndromes
- Importance of showing respect to older patients
- Goal of maximizing function Awareness and sensitivity to sensory changes
- Age-appropriate dosing and avoidance of interactions of multiple medications
- Continuity of care through the different components of geriatric care
- Geriatric primary care
- Geriatric acute care
- Geriatric rehabilitation
- Geriatric long-term care
- Community based
- Home care
- Adult day care/day health care
- Respite care
- Residential Services
- Assisted living, board & care, adult care, or residential care
- Nursing homes
- Combinations of levels of care—Continuing care retirement communities
- Geriatric managed care: integration of primary, acute, and long term care
- On Lok/Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs geriatric programs
- Community based
