Massive cost savings with better health care for the elderly.

• The traditional acute geriatric medicine model of hospital care is not sustainable. There are just not enough Geriatricians to look after all the older patients.

• All Doctors should be doing comprehensive General Medicine!

• Both Governments and the public can’t recognise that the majority of inpatients in public and private hospitals are elderly.

• The problem with the public hospital system is that we haven’t changed the way we do things in the last 40 years.

• Western OECD countries are facing a massive tsunami of older people with their rapidly ageing populations.

• The cost savings per year for Governments for better health care for the elderly from Dr Lipski’s “White Paper” on a new direction for Geriatric Medical services are:

  ·       Australia $6 billion.

  ·       USA $80 billion.  

  ·       UK £9 billion.

  ·       NZ $1 billion.

  ·       Canada $9 billion.

• Since the “White Paper” was written back in 2007, the Australian government could have saved now $96 bilion or the USA $US 1.28 trillion!

• Holistic comprehensive geriatric medical care results in shorter length of hospital stay, less complications, reduced health care costs and better health outcomes.

For more information read Dr Peter Lipski’s book “Your Elderly Parents Failing Health. Is It Ageing Or A Treatable Condition”.