Geriatric medicine deals with aging problems and illnesses in older people. A geriatrician or geriatric physician has specific knowledge of the aging process and expert skills in the diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of diseases in the elderly. This specialist can treat geriatric patients in the patient’s home, an office, nursing home, or a hospital setting.
Physicians in this specialty treat patients suffering from numerous diseases and illnesses, but some of the most common are osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis .
To diagnose patients with possible illnesses and diseases, specialists will often perform one of many tests including Bone density test.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 9,044 practicing geriatric medicine doctors. Broken out by state, geriatric medicine doctor density in Alabama is 85, in Alaska is 18, in Arizona is 153, in Arkansas is 72, in California is 887, in Colorado is 135, in Connecticut is 174, in Delaware is 29, in District of Columbia is 44, in Florida is 633, in Georgia is 133, in Hawaii is 64, in Idaho is 12, in Illinois is 490, in Indiana is 155, in Iowa is 94, in Kansas is 165, in Kentucky is 85, in Louisiana is 72, in Maine is 66, in Maryland is 294, in Massachusetts is 295, in Michigan is 337, in Minnesota is 188, in Mississippi is 41, in Missouri is 205, in Montana is 16, in Nebraska is 36, in Nevada is 49, in New Hampshire is 54, in New Jersey is 387, in New Mexico is 60, in New York is 940, in North Carolina is 227, in North Dakota is 27, in Ohio is 335, in Oklahoma is 59, in Oregon is 85, in Pennsylvania is 701, in Rhode Island is 42, in South Carolina is 98, in South Dakota is 23, in Tennessee is 110, in Texas is 456, in Utah is 29, in Vermont is 21, in Virginia is 191, in Washington is 185, in West Virginia is 60, in Wisconsin is 180, and in Wyoming is 7.
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