This article summarizes aspects of diagnosis and treatment, ressources and administrative organization of the geriatric day hospital of the Spital Bern – Ziegler.

Our Memory Clinic at the Day Hospital has developed from years of existing services offered for the outpatient diagnosis of memory disorders. This article presents how such two- to three-day outpatient diagnostic programs are held. After an initial ...

The wrong conclusion of elderly people beeing the reason for increasing costs of public health is corrected by several differentiated statements. Geriatrics as a comprehensive medicine for the elderly can be realized in an exemplary way, even in a day ...

The communications between patient and physician is presented as a medical task as well as a human encounter and a personal event.

Age: an annoying burden or a priceless gain? The ancient physicians differentiated between senium and senectus to describe old age. In modern-day terminology, the former corresponds to the deficit model, the latter to the competence model of old age. Its ...