(PDF) Care needs of older person
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Care of the old persons 2Importance of Geriatric nursing studies.Geriatric nursing collectively means nursing or relatively taking care of people who are older.Geriatric specialists are mostly found in sensitive departments of care hospitals, restorationcenters, nursing abode and solitude homes. It gives information on major effects that influencethe health of older people as they are more liable to have several chronic health challenges.Geriatric clients need more health care attention than younger individuals. It is necessary that allthe nurses are required to acquire special knowledge about the older generation[ CITATIONPat15 \l 1033 ]. Care attention for older patients needs an appropriate evaluation of the elderly's health condition. Physical, mental, cultural practices, natural conditions and health program procedures may affect their health conditions. For example most elderly persons than young are prone to a mental condition called dementia. It is not a disease in particular rather it is a word that involves signs and symptoms that are related to the decrease of memory capacity and other thinking abilities that are so critical and have negative effect how an old person carries out daily activities.Graduating nurses must be inholding knowledge about dementia, its effects and what causes it. One of the most common type of dementia is the vascular dementia which occurs mostly as a result of stroke. The elderly's medications employed is a major contributing factor to dementia so nurses in other medical field should be very alert when giving medication. Also deteriorated communication, tribal or cultural deviations, and language impediment are some of the factors that cause dementia. Short term memory is also influenced by opprobrium or neglect by relativesin ways like being in an unclean environment, poor nutritional habits, social isolation, inadequatehelp needed to improve their everyday activities without altering with the elderly's resources, and
Care of the old persons 3lack of assistance to the older individuals to keep up their self-reliance.[ CITATION deW15 \l 1033 ]. Integrated and aggrandized knowledge and skills in offering safe and effective qualityhealthcare to older dementia patients in primary care show the ability to treat and preventdementia in older patients in basic care. Managing and negotiating within the systems of offeringhealth care services to the elderly patient in primary care supervises and ascertains a high-qualityhealth care service delivery for elderly patients. It also incorporates a comprehension ofinclinations in aging processes, coordinating and offering basic health care for the patients.In working with an older patient, the physician or a registered nurse who has completed thecourse and is about to graduate should: Evaluate the client’s mental conditions and cognitiveskills, comprehend client’s urgency and other chronic health complications. He or she shouldalso elaborate other factors that would cause dementia, such as falls, inability to control oneself,altered sleeping sequences and sexual matters. The nurse should also be able to organizemedications, instruct the client on individual’s safety and disease precautions. He or she shouldexpound and suggest modifications to the clients' medication record and ensure an agreedtreatment plan that connects the client to the other local resources that are necessary.[ CITATION Sue14 \l 1033 ].The functions of gerontological advanced practice nurses in geriatric care (GAPN) are essentialpractices to perform in the care of dementia patients. They involve offering focused healthexamining, guiding, crisis interposing, and thorough care to the population. They play the veryimportant role as advocates in instructing the proper usage of assets and giving referrals thatsupport continuity of care made particularly for the requirements of elderly adults. GAPN also
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