Renuka Visvanathan (PhD, FRACP, MBBS) is a specialist Geriatrician who is the Director of Aged Extended Care Services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Woodville South, Australia. She is also Professor of geriatric medicine with the Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. Her research interests include clinical syndromes in older people and this includes frailty, undernutrition, falls and dementia.