[Geriatric day clinic. What is the status of an acute geriatric day clinical in the service chain?].

Geriatric care covers a variety of differentiated services and structures, and the well-established system of in- and outpatient treatment has now been expanded to include the day hospital. The 30-bed geriatric day hospital at the "Zentrum für Akutgeriatrie und Frührehabilitation", ZAGF (Center for Acute Geriatric Medicine and Early Rehabilitation) at the Municipal Hospital Munich Neuperlach provides diagnostic and therapeutic services for acute and chronic illnesses with the aim of obviating or shortening hospitalization, helping patients to practise self-help, and preserving social competence. A multi-dimensional interdisciplinary geriatric assessment is used to clarify indications and contraindications, and to plan holistic individual therapeutic strategies.