264335 Geriatrician

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This occupation has a skill level corresponding to the qualifications and experience below.

Australia

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

New Zealand

• Skill Level 1: Bachelor Degree, higher qualification, or at least five years of relevant experience

• Conducts and performs thorough assessments of older patients in partnership with their support workers and relatives
• Requests laboratory tests, imaging, and other diagnostic procedures, and interprets findings to assist diagnosis
• Manages and monitors older patients' ongoing chronic conditions to ensure quality of life
• Provides acute medical care to older patients
• Works to reduce the incidence of post-acute syndrome and functional decline associated with hospitalisation
• Manages geriatric syndromes and disorders characterised by the combination of age-related changes
• Manages acute and long-term neurodegenerative disorders and stroke
• Coordinates and manages the rehabilitation of the older person who has suffered a functional decline
• Provides specialist care to the older person with complex or multifactorial problems in the community setting