Outpatient Age-Friendly Clinics
SAFE Start - Initial Visit
Our Standardized Age-Friendly Evaluation (SAFE) Start initial visit will provide you with a comprehensive overview of your health, age-friendly guidance, and a plan to meet your goals of care.
Fall Prevention Clinic
Falls can lead to broken bones, loss of mobility, and other complications for older adults. Our clinic works to identify your fall risk and help you gain the strength you need to be functional and independent.
Memory Care Clinic
Screening for memory issues is vital as subtle signs can often go unnoticed. Our clinic will work with you to understand the results of your testing and things we can do to improve your memory.
Delirium Care Clinic
Getting delirium while in the hospital is associated with worse outcomes for older adults, including an increased risk of death after discharge. Our delirium clinic works with patients who have developed delirium to identify risk factors that may have caused it and to optimize their health to reduce these outcomes.
Frailty Care Clinic
Frailty is a complex syndrome in which the body becomes weaker and more vulnerable to stress and disease. We work to identify frailty in older adults and create a comprehensive plan to strengthen and rebuild their health.
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Standardized Age-Friendly Evaluation (SAFE Start)
Initial Visit Goals
During your first visit to the clinic, we will perform the following key assessments:
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What Matters Most - where we determine your goals of care ​
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Comprehensive History - where we understand your health and how we can help
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Medication Review- where we make sure you are on the proper medications for the right conditions
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Comprehensive Physical Exam - where we do a head-to-toe assessment, including screening for frailty and mobility issues
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Memory Assessment - where we screen for signs of memory issues
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Falls Assessment - where we review your findings to determine ways we can reduce your risk for falls
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Comprehensive Plan and Follow Up - based on your evaluation, we will create a comprehensive plan to treat your health care goals and address any issues we found during our exam
Fall Prevention Clinic
Mobility is vital for maintaining independence as we age. Our Falls clinic works to help identify risk factors and intervention strategies to help keep you active and healthy.
Visit Goals
​During your fall prevention clinic visit, we will perform the following key assessments:
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What Matters Most - where we determine your goals of care ​
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Comprehensive Falls History - where we understand your fall risk and identify root causes
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Medication Review- where we make sure your medications are not increasing your risk for falls
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Home Safety Review - where we understand more about your home environment and tripping hazards you may have.
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Comprehensive Physical Exam - where we do a head-to-toe assessment
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Falls Assessment - where we perform several tests to determine your strength, mobility, and function
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Comprehensive Plan and Follow Up - based on your evaluation, we will create a comprehensive plan to treat your health care goals and address any issues we found during our exam.
Memory Clinic
Memory concerns can happen at any time. Our clinic performs a comprehensive assessment to determine the cause and best treatment options
Visit Goals
During your memory clinic visit, we will perform the following key assessments:
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What Matters Most - where we determine your goals of care ​
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Comprehensive Memory History - where we understand more about your memory concerns
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Medication Review- where we make sure your medications are not causing memory issues
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Memory Testing - where we perform memory tests to determine how well your memory functions over time
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Comprehensive Physical Exam - where we do a head-to-toe assessment
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Comprehensive Plan and Follow Up - based on your evaluation, we will create a comprehensive plan to treat your health care goals and address any issues we found during our exam.
Delirium Clinic
Delirium is a serious and often underrecognized geriatric syndrome that can increase the risk for memory issues and death after hospitalization
Visit Goals
The Delirium Clinic is a new model of care for older adults after hospitalization. Our goal is to perform a comprehensive geriatric assessment and identify risk factors that may have contributed to your development of delirium. Our hope is that by acting early and thoroughly, we will improve your health and recovery.
Frailty Clinic
As we age, some people develop frailty, in which their bodies become weak and more susceptible to infection and disease. By working early to identify risk factors, we can create a plan to improve frailty and decrease our risks.
Visit Goals
During your frailty clinic visit, we will perform the following key assessments:
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What Matters Most - where we determine your goals of care ​
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Comprehensive Medical History - where we understand your risk factors that are driving frailty
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Medication Review- where we make sure your medications are not increasing your risk for frailty
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Frailty Assessment - where we perform several tests designed to identify frailty and establish a baseline for improvement.
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Comprehensive Physical Exam - where we do a head-to-toe assessment
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Memory Assessment - where we perform a memory test to determine if you have cognitive frailty
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Comprehensive Plan and Follow Up - based on your evaluation, we will create a comprehensive plan to treat your health care goals and address any issues we found during our exam
