Geriatric care in European countries where geriatric medicine is still emerging
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Geriatric care in European countries where geriatric medicine is still emerging George Soulis1 · Yulia Kotovskaya2 · Gülistan Bahat3 · Sofia Duque4 · Radhouane Gouiaa5 · Anne W. Ekdahl6 · Cornel Sieber7 · Mirko Petrovic8 · Athanase Benetos9 Received: 28 May 2020 / Accepted: 14 October 2020 © European Geriatric Medicine Society 2020
Key summary points Aim To describe several aspects that affect practicing geriatric medicine in five different countries: Greece, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, and Tunisia Findings Discrepancies exist between countries concerning all aspects of geriatric medicine (recognition, training, educational and professional standards, academic representation, working context). Message Specificities of each country that set the frame should be taken into consideration in promoting geriatric medicine in different settings. Abstract Purpose Practicing geriatric medicine is a challenging task since it involves working together with other medical doctors while coordinating a multidisciplinary team. Global Europe Initiative (GEI) group within the European Geriatric Medicine Society gathers geriatricians from different regions where geriatrics is underrepresented or still developing to promote initiatives for the advancement of geriatric medicine within these countries. Methods Here we present a first effort to describe several aspects that affect practicing geriatric medicine in five different countries: Greece, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, and Tunisia. Results We can notice discrepancies between countries concerning all dimensions of geriatrics (recognition, training, educational and professional standards, academic representation, working context). Conclusions These differences correspond to the specificities of each country and set the frame where geriatric medicine is going to be developed across Europe. EuGMS with GEI group can provide useful support. Keywords Geriatric medicine · Development · Recognition · Educational and professional standards · Service organisation
* George Soulis [email protected] 1
Outpatient Geriatric Assessment Unit, Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece
Russian Clinical and Research Center of Gerontology, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University, Capa, 34390 Istanbul, Turkey
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Lisboa Ocidental Hospital Center, Lisbon, Portugal
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Policlinque CNSS, Sfax, Tunisia
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Section of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Helsingborg Hospital and Department of Clinical Sciences, Lunds University, Helsingborg, Sweden
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Institut Für Biomedizin Des Alterns, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
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Section of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Department of Geriatrics and FHU CARTAGE, CHU de Nancy and INSERM 1116, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France
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Introduction Ageing population is a global trend. Even
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