Abstract
The Physician Assistant (PA) is a new health-care professional who is trained to function as a “physicianextender.” The need for improving the medical care rendered in geriatric facilities has been documented,and PAs appear to be a natural resource to help fill this gap. Experience with 71 PA studentsand graduate PAs at the Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care supports this possibility. The challenge is forgerontologists and geriatricians to take the initiative and introduce the PA to their respective institutionswhere they can study further their role and their effect on patient care as well as on improvedphysician involvement in long-term institutions.
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