Abstract
A group including 8 physicians and 6 nurses from Mahidol University visited Juntendo Tokyo Koto Geriatric Medical Center (GMC) on July 11, 2014. First of all, a brief conference was held and the president of the center, Dr. Hiroshi Tsuda, gave a welcoming speech. In the conference, Dr. Yoshiaki Furukawa gave a talk on the clinical characteristics of the GMC (Table-1) 1) and Dr. Yosuke Ichimiya gave a short lecture on the diagnosis and treatment of demented patients at this center (Figure-1) as well as the activities of the GMC psychiatric team (Table-2) 2) -4). Then, the visitors observed general and psychiatric wards, rooms for medical examinations of outpatients, and rehabilitation rooms in the center. Finally, Dr. Somnuek Domrongkitchaiporn expressed his gratitude and gave a talk about how aging of the population is progressing in Thailand (Figure-2).
