RESPONSIBILITIES
● Direct Patient Care: Provide direct medical care to a panel of older adults across clinic, long-term care, assisted living, and home settings, delivering high-quality, patient-centered geriatric medicine.
● Geriatric Assessment: Conduct comprehensive geriatric assessments, including medical, functional, cognitive, and psychosocial evaluations, to guide individualized care planning.
● Chronic Disease & Medication Management: Diagnose and manage complex, chronic conditions common in older adults – including dementia, frailty, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and diabetes – and monitor and adjust medications with attention to polypharmacy and age-related pharmacologic considerations.
● Treatment Planning & Education: Develop individualized treatment plans emphasizing prevention, health maintenance, and patient and caregiver education.
● End-of-Life & Palliative Care Planning: Guide patients and families through end-of-life care planning, advance directives, and palliative care coordination when appropriate.
● Care Coordination: Coordinate care with Ennoble Care’s multidisciplinary team, including nurses, social workers, therapists, pharmacists, and other specialists, and communicate effectively with patients,
families, and caregivers on goals of care and quality-of-life concerns.