Common geriatric illnesses seen at the Manila Doctors Hospital–Department of Family and Community Medicine (MDH-DFCM) Clinic at Barangay 662, Paco, Manila, from June 2011 to December 2016

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Introduction@#The global trend of decreasing mortality and decreasing fertility, has brought about “Population Aging”. The steady increase in the number of geriatric patients calls for the need to improve the holistic management of illnesses of this population.@*Objective@#The objective of the study is to identify the common illnesses of geriatric patients seen at the Manila Doctors’ Hospital - Department of Family and Community Medicine Clinic at Barangay 662, Paco, Manila, from June 2011 to December 2016.@*Methods@#This a retrospective-descriptive study. Barangay 662, at Cristobal St., Paco, Manila, has been the adopted community of the MDH-DFCM since June of 2011. All patients aged sixty (60) years old and above seen at the said clinic were included in this study. Baseline demographics were obtained and patients’ charts were used as basis for this study. Frequency of consults and demographic data were tallied at the time of consult. Qualitative variables and percentages were analysed for this study@*Results@#Over a span of 6 years, the most common illness of geriatric patients seen at the MDH-DFCM Clinic were osteoarthritis (n=145), hypertensive cardiovascular disease (n=126) and hypertension stage 2 (n=124). There were more consults by female patients (69% n=458). Purok 4 had the most number of consults (28% n=144). According to the ICD-10, reasons for consult belonged to disease of the circulatory system (n=344). @*Conclusion@#This study concludes that the most common illnesses of geriatric patients seen at the MDH-DFCM Clinic at Barangay 662, Paco, Manila, from June 2011 to December 2016 were non-communicable diseases.