Sweden

Svensk Geriatrisk Förening
Swedish Geriatric Medicine Society

Some facts on demography and geriatrics in Sweden…

Total population: 9.900.000
Percentage above 65 Yr: 20%
Percentage above 80 Yr: 5%

Number of physicians: 39.000
Number of geriatricians: 450
Total number of hospital beds: 24.500 (2012)
Number of geriatric beds: 1.450 (2012)

Geriatric medicine is found in...

• acute care hospitals as acute geriatric wards
• out-patient care settings
• post-acute rehabilitation hospitals/clinics
• nursing homes or long term care facilities

Members of the society

Geriatricians: app. 450
GP’s and Internists: app. 100
Nurses: N/A
Other therapists: N/A

List of geriatric chairs and research centres in Sweden

There are six chairs in geriatric medicine:

• Stockholm: Karolinska Insitutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care science and Society
• Gothenburg: Sahlgrenska Academy Institute of Medicine
• Malmö: Faculty of Lund university, unit of Geriatrics
• Linkoping: The faculty of Medicine and Healt Sciences
• Uppsala: Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences
• Umea: Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, unit of Geriatric Medicine