Karl E De Jonge, MD| Geriatric Medicine | MedStar Health
About me
K. Eric De Jonge, MD, works with a team that provides home-based primary care and hospital services to ill elders. Their goal is to meet all medical and social needs of patients and families, over time and across all settings.
Clinical areas of focus
- Aging
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Constipation
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Elder Abuse
- Failure To Thrive
- Frailty
- Geriatric Pain Management
- Geriatrics
- Home Health
- Homebound
- Memory Disorders
- Polypharmacy
- Pressure Ulcer
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Aging
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Behavioral Issues In Dementia
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
- Cognitive Impairment
- Constipation
- Degenerative Brain Disorder
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Disorder Of Balance
- Dysphagia
- Elder Abuse
- Failure To Thrive
- Falls
- Fatigue
- Fecal Incontinence
- Female Urinary Incontinence
- Frailty
- Frontotemporal Neurocognitive Disorder
- Geriatrics
- Homebound
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Male Urinary Incontinence
- Malnutrition
- Memory Disorders
- Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Multiple Chronic Illnesses
- Muscle Weakness
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Polypharmacy
- Pressure Ulcer
- Senility
- Sensory Impairment
- Swallowing Problem
- Unsteady Gait
- Urinary Incontinence
- Vascular Neurocognitive Disorder
- Visual Impairment
Procedures I perform
- Alzheimer's Testing
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Fall Risk Assessment
- Geriatric Pain Management
- Home Health
- Neurocognitive Testing
- Nursing Home Care
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine
Fellowship Program: Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center (1996)
Residency Program: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (1994)
Internship Program: University of Washington Medical Center (1992)
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine (1991)