Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Service

The Geriatrics and Rehabilitation service at Mountt Lawley Hospital is comprised of inpatient and outpatient services.

Inpatient services

• Aged Care Rehabilitation Unit
• General Rehabilitation Unit

The on-call geriatrician at RPH can be contacted for advice via 9224 2244. Alternatively, the EMHS Older Adult Hub provides assessment and care coordination for older adults by a multidisciplinary team and can be contacted on 1300 229 080 Monday to Friday 8:30am-4pm.

The Geriatrics and Community Rehabilitation (CR) Outpatient service provides multidisciplinary rehabilitative therapy to patients living in the designated EMHS / RPBMLG catchment area. 

The multidisciplinary team aims to provide a coordinated patient-centred service to patients with an impairment, activity limitation or restriction due to a health condition or following an injury.

Outpatient services include:

• Older Adult Continence service
• Falls clinic
• Fragile bone Clinic
• General Geriatric Evaluation and Management
• General Rehabilitation
• Memory Clinic
• Parkinson's Disease (PD) & Movement Disorder Multidisciplinary Clinic

Referrals for outpatient services can be made via the Central Referral Service.