Division of Geriatrics
In the early 1970s, two programs addressing the needs of disadvantaged elderly patients were launched at NYU: an outreach program for elderly patients living in SRO hotels and a psychiatry outreach program for de-institutionalized elderly patients with dementia.
These two programs were brought together in the Bellevue Hospital Geriatric Clinic when a new Division of Geriatrics was established in 1979 within the Department of Medicine. Over the next twenty years, an in-patient unit at Bellevue was added, followed by a Geriatrics clinic at the VA, a Geriatrics clinic and falls program at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a home care program at the Manhattan VA Hospital, and a consult team at Tisch University Hospital. The nursing home at Goldwater Hospital also remains an important Division sites.
A Geriatric Fellowship Program was started in 1981, one of the first ten such programs in the United States.
