Townsville

Townsville Hospital

None specified

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

Acute Care of the Elderly Unit

29 bed ACE unit

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

Geriatric Evaluation & Management Unit (GEM)

45 bed SACU unit “shared” with Rehabilitation Medicine

Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:

Dr Kok Chu Chan

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

General Rehabilitation Unit

No service specified

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

No service specified

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

Geriatric Medicine Clinics (please specify if general, falls, memory/cognition, continence, other)

  • Memory Clinic
  • Falls Clinic
  • GEMS/General Clinic
  • RACF visits
  • Consultant -led Day Hospital

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

To be advised.

Inpatient/Outpatient (Please specify)

Older Persons Mental Health Liaison

Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:

Dr Sarah Beaney

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

None specified

Please specify e.g. Delirium Management Unit, Specialist Dementia care/BPSD unit

Dementia Assessment Service (DAS) – as part of Older Persons Community Services (OPCS) located at Kirwan Health Campus

Name of consultant geriatric medicine staff per service:

Dr Veronika Canning, Senior Psychologist (Clinical)

Name and contact number for key staff member who can provide more information about geriatric services available at your facility:

Judy Rabbitt, OPCS Service Manager

Jennifer Bradford, ACAT & DAS Team Leader

Ph: (07) 4433 9500

Last updated: 23 October 2019