Present geriatric medicine strives for the longest conservation of adequate physical and mental activity, diversion of loss of self-sufficiency and improvement of prognosis in the case of illness. Therefore, it has interventional character and supports successful healthy aging. The contens of modern geriatric medicine as medical department are to manage altered clinical view of illness and health-social problems of elder people. It's objective in the present and future is the extending of active years and supporting of functional capacities as long as possible.