Geriatric Medical Care for South Carolina's Seniors
Senior Health Associates is South Carolina's leading provider of home based geriatric primary care. We take an active approach to our patients' health looking for ways to prevent illness and keep our patients functioning at the highest possible level.
Our providers are board certified in Geriatrics, Internal Medicine,
Family Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Care. Seniors have unique characteristics that differentiate them from younger
populations. The majority of health care practitioners caring for older
patients have not been adequately trained. As a result, many
practitioners treat an 85 year old patient in the same manner as a 50 year
old patient - despite the remarkable differences between these patient
populations. Too often, illnesses in older adults are misdiagnosed, overlooked or
dismissed as the normal process of aging simply because many health care
professionals are not trained to recognize how diseases and drugs affect
older patients differently than younger patients.