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Physicians who treat elderly patients are well aware of how important a driver's licence is to a geriatric patient. The ability to drive represents perhaps the greatest source of independence to an elderly patient.
Ensuring the safety of nursing home residents is a high priority for both families and health care personnel. To this end, various types of restraints have traditionally been used to protect residents from falls and injuries.
Increasingly, primary care physicians are facing the stress of dealing with the wrath of patients who have incurred staggering and ruinous bills for medical attention while travelling outside of Canada.
Elder abuse is an unfortunate and undiscussed phenomenon in our society, yet it is one that many physicians will encounter in the treatment of their elderly patients.