Gerontology

The Townsville HHS Gerontology Department is a multidisciplinary unit with staff specially trained in caring for the elderly in the North Queensland community.

Services

• Medical care to patients in Medical Ward 5 (delirium-dementia)
• Geriatric evaluation and management
• Orthogeriatric shared care program
• Transition care program (Elder Care Team provides this discharge service)
• Comprehensive research and training program
• Adjunct lectureship with JCU
• ACAT assessments for those requiring placement from hospital
• Falls and balance
• Telehealth to rural and remote areas
• Inpatient Telehealth
• Specialist clinics - 65 years or older (50+ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).
  • Age-aware clinic - memory loss/cognition
  • Falls/balance clinic - falls/mobility/immobility
  • Geriatric review clinic - general medicine in the older person - e.g. general health in old age, Parkinson's disease in old age, osteoporosis etc.
  • Community Geriatric clinic
  • OncoGeriatric clinic
  • Frailty Intervention Team (FIT)
  • TeleGero medicine clinic
    • Via Telegero, a televised link, we are able to provide specialist services to rural and remote hospital areas including, but not limited, to the following areas:-
      • Ayr
      • Bowen
      • Charters Towers
      • Clermont
      • Cloncurry
      • Collinsville
      • Home Hill
      • Hughenden
      • Ingham
      • Mackay
      • Mornington Island
      • Mt Isa
      • Proserpine
      • Richmond
      • Sarina
      • Winton (but can be extended outside these areas).

Referrals

Referrals can be made by any medical practitioner

Contact Us

All appointment bookings and rescheduling
Ph: (07) 4433 2645
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All other enquiries
Ph: (07) 4433 2604
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Townsville University Hospital
100 Angus Smith Drive
Douglas QLD 4814

IMB 103
PO Box 670
Townsville QLD 4810