8^th International Conference on Geriatric Medicine & Gerontological Nursing October 30-31, 2017 San Antonio, Texas, USA

Gerontological nursing is important to meet the health needs of an aging population. Geriatric nurses are responsible for helping elderly patients cope with existing medical conditions. There is a need for geriatric nursing professionals in a variety of healthcare facilities, including nursing homes, hospitals and home health care services.is the specialty of nursing pertaining to older adults.

Concierge medicine is a relationship between a patient and a primary care physician in which the patient pays an annual fee or retainer. This may or may not be in addition to other charges. In exchange for the retainer, doctors provide enhanced care, including principally a commitment to limit patient loads to ensure adequate time and availability for each patient.

Gerontechnology is considered an adjunct to the promotion of human health and well-being. It pertains both to human development and ageing and aims at compressing morbidity and increasing vitality in the life-span and quality of life. It creates solutions to extend the working phase in society by maximizing the vital and productive years in the life span, consequently reducing cost of care in later life.

Geriatric psychiatry emphasizes the biological and psychological aspects of normal aging, the psychiatric effect of acute and chronic physical illness, and the biological and psychosocial aspects of the pathology of primary psychiatric disturbances of older age. Geriatric psychiatrists focus on prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional and sleep disorders in the elderly and improvement of psychiatric care for healthy and ill elderly patients.

Older people often live with one or more chronic illnesses and need a lot of care for days, weeks, and even months before death. End of life care used to describe the support and medical care given during the time surrounding death, not only of patients in the final hours or days of their lives, but more broadly care of all those with a terminal illness or terminal disease condition that has become advanced, progressive and incurable.

Aging reflects all the changes that occur over the course of life, encompassing physical, psychological, and social change. Aging is among the greatest known risk factors for most human diseases of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds die from age-related causes.

With the growth of elder population across the globe, Elder abuse is also increasing its statistics it may be any form of mistreatment that results in harm or loss to an older person and it is the infliction of physical, emotional/psychological, sexual or financial harm on an older adult. Elder abuse can also take the form of intentional or unintentional neglect of an older adult by the caregiver.

Geroscience expects to comprehend the relationship amongst aging and age-related illnesses. Age-related diseases are apparently the single most noteworthy test for biomedicine in the 21st century. Geroscience describes the interrelated activities of molecular biologists, neuroscientists, protein chemists, cell biologists, geneticists, endocrinologists, pharmacologists, mathematicians and others.

Rehabilitation helps an individual to achieve the highest level of function, independence, and quality of life. It covers three areas – normal aging due to disuse and deconditioning, cardiovascular problems like vascular disease and stroke, and skeletal problems including osteoporosis and osteoarthritis conditions such as knee and hip replacements.

Geriatric medicine is a specialty that focuses on health care of elderly people. A Geriatric disorder is a disruption to regular bodily structure and function, logically connected, associated with old age, have a multifactorial etiology and course of chronic, poorly treated. They lead to a decline in the human independence. Some of the Geriatric disorders include Delirium, Depression, Cognitive deficit syndrome and Malnutrition syndrome.

Clinical trials are used to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of medications or medical devices by monitoring their effects on large groups of people.

Geriatric clinical trials researches on health and disease in the aged and research on aging over the human lifespan, including its relationships to health outcomes and three major research areas such as, Geriatrics, Clinical Gerontology, and Clinical Trials.