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 Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

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 9,826 practicing geriatric medicine doctors. Broken out by state, geriatric medicine doctor density in Alabama is 93, in Alaska is 17, in Arizona is 160, in Arkansas is 97, in California is 987, in Colorado is 146, in Connecticut is 190, in Delaware is 29, in District of Columbia is 55, in Florida is 638, in Georgia is 156, in Hawaii is 72, in Idaho is 15, in Illinois is 475, in Indiana is 176, in Iowa is 98, in Kansas is 78, in Kentucky is 94, in Louisiana is 80, in Maine is 69, in Maryland is 262, in Massachusetts is 311, in Michigan is 363, in Minnesota is 199, in Mississippi is 48, in Missouri is 228, in Montana is 20, in Nebraska is 43, in Nevada is 50, in New Hampshire is 52, in New Jersey is 385, in New Mexico is 66, in New York is 1,007, in North Carolina is 256, in North Dakota is 26, in Ohio is 340, in Oklahoma is 68, in Oregon is 96, in Pennsylvania is 736, in Rhode Island is 43, in South Carolina is 105, in South Dakota is 27, in Tennessee is 116, in Texas is 494, in Utah is 36, in Vermont is 23, in Virginia is 205, in Washington is 207, in West Virginia is 59, in Wisconsin is 192, and in Wyoming is 8.