Canada's Summer Institute in Geriatrics

Abstract

It has been well documented that the geriatric population is rapidly growing with an estimation that people 65 years and older will comprise 23% of the population by 2041.¹ This increasing population size of older adults translates into an increasing demand for geriatric care.  Currently, Canada has just half the required geriatricians.²  Furthermore, there are only 22 hours of formal teaching within the UBC undergraduate curriculum with no mandatory clinical rotations during third or fourth year.  The bottom line is that the demand is much greater than the supply and solutions to balance out the equation are required in order to ensure the care and needs of older adults are even close to being met