[The nursing home of the city of Vienna in Baumgarten: current internal medicine and angiologic aspects of geriatrics].

We consider the establishment of departments for internal medicine with a diagnostic and a therapeutic centre, the installation of an in-patient department for angiology and the increase of teaching and research activities at the Baumgarten nursing home in Vienna to be an example for the further development of geriatrics and a promising preliminary stage in the new understanding of the role of this growing branch of medicine, and its formal recognition in Austria.