Care of the Elderly
The Care of the Elderly (Medicine of Ageing) Department at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital provides a wide range of services.
The department has 4 consultants who all hold specialty accreditation in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine.
Services are based in the Medical Day Unit which has 4 day-case beds and 6 consulting rooms.
The unit cares for all medical day cases such as blood transfusions, chemotherapy, haematological, endocrine and neurological investigations, and day treatment such as drug infusions for various medical conditions.
Adjacent Therapy services allow for assessment and treatment of elderly patients by physiotherapists and occupational therapists as a ‘one-stop-shop’.
The service set-up is multi-disciplinary and has regular clinics for rheumatology, haematology and oncology.
Consultants & specialist services
Dr Inaki Bovill—inaki.bovill@chelwest.nhs.uk
- Neurodegenerative diseases and continence management
- Short-term inpatient rehabilitation at Ellesmere Residential Unit
- Pre-operative assessment of complex elderly patients
- Domiciliary assessments for frail elderly patients
- General medicine clinic for elderly patients.
Dr Peter Kroker (Service Lead)—peter.kroker@chelwest.nhs.uk
- Falls assessment service
- Congestive cardiac failure clinic for elderly patients
- Pre-operative assessment unit for elderly orthopaedic patients
- Old age general medicine clinic
Dr Richard Morgan (Clinical Director)—richard.morgan@chelwest.nhs.uk
- Clinical pharmacology in the elderly with a specialist interest in metabolic disorders and hypertension in the elderly
- Old age general medicine clinic
- Memory clinic and Parkinson’s disease
Dr Michael Pelly (Stroke Service Lead)—michael.pelly@chelwest.nhs.uk
- Stroke and TIA clinic
- Old age general medicine clinic
The department provides outpatient services from Monday to Friday and there is a rapid response service which can be accessed through Sister Ellie Shepheard (via hospital switchboard/bleep).
Due to the multi-disciplinary linkage with other specialities, the Medical Day Unit is ideally suited to manage complex elderly patients with additional pathology such as cancer and complex cardiological disease.
