[Organization forms for clinical geriatrics].

In Germany the insight in the usefulness or necessity of clinical geriatrics as a medical specialty promotes changes in organization only with delay. This description of the working facilities for geriatricians in Great Britain stresses geriatric wards, attachment of geriatricians to acute medical wards and geriatric day hospitals. Difficulties and possibilities of development in british geriatrics are presented so far as they are of account for the actual german situation.