Care of the Elderly

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Care of the Elderly

Services for the Older Population

Written by Director of Operations

Services Provided

The Care of the Elderly team provides medical treatment for conditions affecting the older population including:

Consultant	Speciality / Specialist Interest	Clinic location / frequency
Dr Beverly CASTLETON	Parkinson’s disease Movement Disorder	SPH Friday fortnightly Woking Friday fortnightly
Dr Zahid DHAKAM	General Medicine Elderly Medicine Hypertension TIA (all ages) Parkinson’s disease	SPH Monday fortnightly – Hypertension / TIA ASH Monday fortnightly – Hypertension / TIA ASH Wednesday weekly One Stop Rapid Assessment Clinic / TIA SPH Thurs – General / Geriatric Medicine
Dr Bhaskar MANDAL	General Medicine Elderly Medicine Parkinson's disease Rapid Access Clinic for elderly patients TIA/Stroke Medicine Stroke rehab at Ashford Hospital	ASH Mon fortnightly – General Medicine SPH Wed fortnightly – General Medicine ASH Thursday weekly – RAC / TIA / Stroke
Dr Raad NARI	General Medicine Elderly Medicine Falls/Syncope Stroke rehabilitation	SPH Monday fortnightly – TIA Woking Monday fortnightly – TIA Woking Wednesday weekly – Falls
Dr Keefai Yeong	Orthogeriatrics	ASH Friday RAC
Dr Radcliffe Lisk	General Medicine Elderly Medicine Rapid Access Clinic for elderly patients Orthogeriatrics Falls Rehab at Ashford Hospital	Walton Wednesday - Falls ASH Monday - RAC / TIA

Contact Details
Location	The Care of the Elderly outpatient clinics are located on the first floor of the Outpatients block at Ashford Hospital. The RAC is located on the ground floor of the ward block at Ashford Hospital.
Patient Leaflets	See the documents attached below.
News Articles	15/02/10: New 24 / 7 stroke service offered at St Peters 15/07/09: Hospital shares expertise with India 15/07/09: Stroke unit experts helping India 06/04/09: Amongst the country's top performing Trusts for stroke care 19/09/08: Investment in stroke care improves servicest 12/05/08: Welly walk 12/05/08: Successful first thrombolysis 04/04/08: Acute stroke and brain injury unit opened
Weblinks	The following websites related to this specialty may be helpful: Neurology Rapid Access Centre at the Trust NHS Choices: Hypertension NHS Choices: Stroke BBC Health: Parkinson’s Disease BBC Health: Stroke SAGA: Health pages National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

Last Updated ( Monday, 26 July 2010 10:50 )

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