Senior Primary Care
People are living longer today than ever before. As you age, your body has unique needs to stay active and well. Visit the Senior Health Clinic at St. Bernards Healthcare for a specialized team that assists all adults aged 55 and older. Our patients include healthy seniors interested in staying independent as well as elderly patients with complex medical problems, including memory loss and early onset Alzheimer’s disease.
With our Senior Health Clinic, you will find help:
- Staying healthy and informed
- Living independently
- Connecting to other care needs
- Finding trusted and appropriate options for home care, senior living and other senior oriented services
- Maintaining a healthy brain
- Finding support for memory loss
Our team is highly trained in geriatrics, a branch of medicine that identifies healthy aging from disease, promotes healthy aging, manages chronic diseases and coordinates the services our patients need. Our team builds a protective and compassionate support network that sustains our patients and their caregivers on their aging journey, incorporating:
- Geriatrics physicians and mid-level providers (nurse practitioners and physician assistants)
- Neuropsychology services – evaluates how brain conditions affect your behavior and thinking
- Case management and social work services
- Psychiatry support
- Cognitive and speech therapy
- Physical and occupational therapy
- Home healthcare
- Palliative care
The Senior Health Clinic provides older adults with a personalized, comprehensive plan to combat problems that may come with aging. These include:
- Complex medical conditions
- Neurocognitive disorders, such as dementia, and the behavioral changes that come with them
- A decline in performing normal, daily functions necessary for independent living
- Recurrent hospitalizations
- Pain management
- Depression, anxiety and other mood disorders
- Gait abnormalities, falls and related problems
Our clinic acts as a primary care provider for older adults while also helping other physicians and specialists who provide care in a variety of settings, including clinics, hospitals and homes.
Services and Programs
Primary Care
Our staff of expert physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses and case managers tailors care to your specific needs.
Geriatrics Outpatient Consults
We evaluate and form care plans that help other providers manage a variety of geriatric conditions.
Memory Evaluation and Care
We specialize in the medical and psychosocial needs of older patients with dementia. We work across medical specialties to assist caregivers with information, counseling and addressing dementia-related changes.
Failure to Thrive Evaluation and Management
“Failure to thrive” means an older adult struggles with performing normal, day-to-day tasks necessary for independent living. Its symptoms include frailty, weight loss, lethargy, recurrent infections, depression and cognitive decline. Failure to thrive needs timely intervention to reverse its pathway. Our clinic helps with chronic illness and medication management while evaluating and managing mobility issues and mood and cognitive disorders.
Geriatrics Home Visits
Many of our patients are physically frail, have mobility limitations or experience memory loss. We can address their medical needs at home, boosting their quality of life. Our home visits include physical exams, treatment of acute and chronic medical problems, medication management, lab tests and more.
Geriatrics Inpatient Services
If you are admitted to acute rehabilitation at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Jonesboro or the geriatric unit at St. Bernards Behavioral Health, our team brings specialized geriatric care to you while you are in the hospital.
SAFE (safety evaluation and fall prevention) Program
We evaluate your risk of falling related to general conditions, medications and normal changes of aging. In addition, we collaborate with physical therapists at St. Bernards Villa to offer you a complete safety and fall prevention program.
Pain Management
We offer you with complex pain evaluation and management options for arthritis, cancer related or neuropathic pain. We also work with physical therapists and regular pain management clinics to adjust your treatment as needed.
Information
We have a large resource library and skilled social workers who can get you information about housing needs, home aids, medication support and medical insurances.
Decision Support
We provide counseling regarding advanced directives and other services relating to palliative and quality-of-life oriented care.
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St. Bernards Senior Health Clinic is a department of St. Bernards Medical Center.
