Community and Geriatric Medicine
Community and Geriatric Medicine offers inpatient and outpatient assessment and rehabilitation services for older people. We provide specialist comprehensive geriatric assessments for a range of age-related conditions including:
- dementia and cognitive impairment
- balance and mobility impairments
- continence problems
- polypharmacy
- general medical problems experienced in older age.
We take a multidisciplinary approach with input from medical, nursing and allied health staff.
Our services include:
- inpatient and ambulatory assessment and rehabilitation
- general clinics to assess a wide range of problems
- Aged Care Assessment Team assessments
- home visiting medical reviews
- the regional Parkinson’s disease service
- country visiting service (medical clinics in Geraldton and Narrogin).
Our inpatient services are based in Ward V5 at Fremantle Hospital.
Our staff members also work in the orthopaedic wards and assist in treating patients with hip fractures and similar conditions.
Outpatient and rehabilitation services
We run outpatient assessment and rehabilitation services at the D4 Rehabilitation Centre. This includes specialist clinics for memory, balance and mobility, continence, Parkinson’s (Healthy WA), allied health.
Aged Care Assessment Team
The Fremantle Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) conducts inpatient and home-based assessments for residential care, transitional care and community support services and is located with our offices on Level 5, V Block, Fremantle Hospital.
Read more about Aged Care Assessment Teams (Healthy WA).
Referrals
All routine general referrals should be made on a general adult referral form available from the Central Referral Service (external site).
- fax: 1300 365 056
post: Central Referral Service, PO Box 3462 =, Midland WA 6056
via Secure Message (mMex): central@mmex.gsmhn.com.au
Immediate/urgent referrals
If the patient requires urgent review in a specialist clinic you must:
- first discuss this with the relevant registrar or consultant via switchboard on 9431 3333
- clearly mark the referral 'urgent' and with the name of the doctor you have spoken to, and fax the referral and any attachments to the Fremantle Hospital Central Receipting Clinic on 9431 2009, or to the departmental fax if so directed, ensuring the fax header clearly identifies:
- patient's name
- clinic referred to
- appointment date
- total number of pages.