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 8,856 practicing geriatric medicine doctors. Broken out by state, geriatric medicine doctor density in Alabama is 84, in Alaska is 18, in Arizona is 151, in Arkansas is 70, in California is 875, in Colorado is 133, in Connecticut is 171, in Delaware is 28, in District of Columbia is 44, in Florida is 630, in Georgia is 130, in Hawaii is 60, in Idaho is 12, in Illinois is 482, in Indiana is 151, in Iowa is 91, in Kansas is 159, in Kentucky is 83, in Louisiana is 71, in Maine is 65, in Maryland is 292, in Massachusetts is 289, in Michigan is 333, in Minnesota is 186, in Mississippi is 41, in Missouri is 202, in Montana is 16, in Nebraska is 35, in Nevada is 48, in New Hampshire is 54, in New Jersey is 382, in New Mexico is 60, in New York is 925, in North Carolina is 223, in North Dakota is 27, in Ohio is 334, in Oklahoma is 59, in Oregon is 84, in Pennsylvania is 692, in Rhode Island is 42, in South Carolina is 95, in South Dakota is 22, in Tennessee is 109, in Texas is 451, in Utah is 28, in Vermont is 21, in Virginia is 190, in Washington is 182, in West Virginia is 60, in Wisconsin is 175, and in Wyoming is 7.
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