Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Twilight Years
- Demographics
- Ahmed,75, retired school
teacher,mariam,65,midwife,2 daughters
- physiological changes
- skin
- Decrease in keratinocytes
- Musculoskeletal
- decreased fiber size
- Respiratory
- Alveoli fewer in number
- cardiovascular
- cardiac output decrease
- geriatrics
- Caring for Older Adults ( 65 and above )
- Role of elderly in society
- Teaching behavior / sharing experience
- Active aging
- is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation
and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age
- Aging vs. ageism
- Aging
- biological changes that occur over time in an individual that are
associated with a decline in function and increase risk of death
- types ;
primary
secondary
- Agesim
- is a form of discrimination and prejudice
- types:
positive
negative
- Societal views about aging
- Some people said they are important
and other said they are useless
- challenges faced by elderly
- Physiological/ Psychological
Social/ Emotional /Financial
- Retirement /Ageism
Social Isolation
- Myocardial infarction
- usually caused by a blood clot, which stops the
blood flowing to a part of your heart muscle
- how heart cells replaced
by scar tissue
- stable angina
- feel it at physical activity and relieved
- unstable angina
- feel it at rest and relieved
- biological basis of aging (mutation)
- Cellular Senescence
- Telomere Shortening
- Genomic Damage
- Senescent Cells and Cancer
- Fat distribution of fat in males and females
- women store more fat in
the gluteal-femoral region
- men store more fat in the
visceral (abdominal) depot
- Normal body weight, obesity, BMI
- Body mass index (BMI) is measure of
body fat based on height and weight
- fed vs fasting state (major
metabolic pathways, role of liver)
- fed state
- fasting state
- Health risks in the aged
- Arthritis
- Heart disease
- Diabetes
- Nutritional needs
- Iron: male (same)
female (decreases)
- Protein: male (decreases)
female (increases)
- Calcium must meet the
satisfied levels
- Problems of prescribing in elderly
- multiple medication use
- Drug-drug interactions
- use medicinal herbs and other dietary supplements
and may not tell their health care providers
- Pharmacological changes in elderly
- elderly persons tend to be on
multiple medications due to
- Age-related health problems
- Many physiological changes in drug
pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- risk factors of falling
- Inflammation of joints
- Hypotension
- Auditory and visual problems
- Tremor
- Equilibrium
- Adverse drug events in elderly
- an injury resulting
from the use of a drug
- adverse drug reactions and overdoses
- dose reductions and discontinuations of drug therapy
- Functional assessment screening
- assess the functional, cognitive and affective status of older patients
- Rehab
- the reduction of functional deficits without necessarily
reversing the underlying biology of the disease
- Disorders requiring rehabilitation
- hip fracture
- limb amputation
- Alzheimer's disease
- Psychological problems
- Depression
- Suicide
- Insomnia
- Dementia
- Healing and repair
- Wound healing slows with age
- Factors that cause decreased tissue repair
- Loss of elasticity
- Decline in collagen content
- Services in UAE
- Rochester wellness
- Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy,
Hydrotherapy and Speech Therapy