As the population of Europe ages, the need for services for the elderly grows. In particular, older people require more medical care for both mind and body. Felix Platter-Hospital in Basel specializes in precisely this care for Europe’s senior citizens. Hosting the chair of geriatrics of Basel University, the University Center for Medicine of Aging and Rehabilitation is increasingly taking an academic interdisciplinary and therefore holistic approach to health care for the elderly and provides treatment for physical ailments while helping its patients handle dementia-related maladies with a range of other medical services offered nowhere else in Europe.