Geriatric Medicine

Hangzhou Xixi Hospital (Hangzhou Sixth People's Hospital, Hangzhou Xixi Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang Chinese Medical University) was founded in 1937. It is a municipal Grade III-A public hospital integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, disease prevention, and health care, with the diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases and infectious diseases as its specialties. The hospital is adjacent to Xixi National Wetland Park, backed by mountains and facing the water, with a beautiful environment. It covers an area of 200 mu and has a construction area of nearly 100,000 square meters, with 1,100 approved beds (including 500 beds planned for construction in Phase II).

The Department of Geriatric Medicine of Hangzhou Xixi Hospital is a department for the comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of geriatric diseases. Fully leveraging the hospital's multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment strengths, the department focuses on the treatment and research of geriatric diseases. Through standardized comprehensive geriatric assessment, early screening, and early diagnosis and treatment, it strengthens the management of geriatric syndromes and focuses on the physical and mental health of older adults. It provides multidisciplinary comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for patients with “multiple diseases in one patient,” and develops and implements an integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment plan for every older person, using traditional Chinese medicine when appropriate and Western medicine when appropriate. The department integrates medical care with elderly care, cooperates with community elderly-care institutions throughout the entire process, and promotes the concept of health throughout the life cycle, thereby improving older adults’ health and quality of life.

The core members of the medical team in the Department of Geriatric Medicine cover geriatric respiratory medicine, cardiovascular critical care, neurology, gastroenterology, traditional Chinese medicine, and other fields. The team includes 1 chief physician, 2 deputy chief physicians, 1 attending physician, and 1 resident physician, of whom 5 have a master's degree or higher. The nursing team consists of 16 people: 1 deputy chief nurse, 7 nurse supervisors, 7 nurses, and 1 junior nurse.