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. Arkansas has 97 practicing geriatric medicine doctors. Broken out by city, geriatric medicine doctor density in Ash Flat is 1, in Batesville is 2, in Bella Vista is 6, in Bentonville is 5, in Blytheville is 1, in Carlisle is 1, in College Station is 1, in Conway is 1, in El Dorado is 3, in Eudora is 1, in Fayetteville is 8, in Flippin is 1, in Fort Smith is 6, in Gentry is 1, in Gurdon is 1, in Hardy is 1, in Harrison is 1, in Heber Springs is 1, in Hot Springs is 2, in Hot Springs National Park is 2, in Jonesboro is 4, in Lincoln is 1, in Little Rock is 38, in Lowell is 1, in Mena is 2, in Mountain Home is 1, in Norman is 2, in North Little Rock is 5, in Pine Bluff is 4, in Prescott is 1, in Searcy is 1, in Sherwood is 4, in Siloam Springs is 1, in Springdale is 7, in Van Buren is 2, and in West Memphis is 1.

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According to 2005 Census estimates, Arkansas has a population of 2,779,154. Of this population, 662,920 are under the age of 18 and 381,547 are at or above the age of 65.