Geriatric medicine in Egypt

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Geriatric medicine in Egypt as a speciality was established first as a unit in Ain Shams University Faculty of medicine in 1984, then the unit became a department having its own residents and issuing academic degrees (M.Sc., M.D). In 2004 the department established a geriatrics intensive care unit.

Also Alexandria University Faculty of medicine contain a department. Mansoura University is establishing its own department.

Al Matarya and El Sahel educational hospitals are establishing its departments. Boulaq Al-Dakror Hospital openned a new department in 2007.

The Egyptian society of Geriatric medicine was established in the 1982, but is frozen.