3. PURPOSE OF LECTURE
At the end of lecture students should able to know how to take assessment for
geriatric patient.
4. LEARNING OBJECTIVE
SR NO LEARNING
OBJECTIVE
DOMEN LEVEL
1 What is NGO? cognitive all
2 Health related legal
rights for elderly?
cognitive all
3 Health related
benefits for elderly?
cognitive all
6. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
β’ FULL NAME: Documentation
β’ AGE: common problem in particular age
β’ GENDER: specific problem related with age
β’ DATE OF BIRTH:
β’ RESIDENCE:
β’ MARITAL STATUS:
β’ SOURCE OF HISTORY:
β’ OCCUPATION:
7. CHIEF COMPLAINT
β’ Primary reason to visit
β’ Ideally in patientβs own words
β’ Duration of presenting symptoms
8. PAIN HISTORY
β’ Location
β’ Duration
β’ Nature
β’ Intensity
β’ On activity
β’ On rest
β’ Side
β’ Onset- gradual or sudden
9. PRESENT ILLNESS
β’ Chronological narrative of reasons for patients visit.
β’ Persistence, change, severity, character, resolution and
disabling effects of initial symptoms.
β’ Presence of new symptoms and associated symptoms
10. PAST HISTORY
β’ Previous medical h/o
β’ Childhood disease
β’ Immunizations
β’ Allergies ,including clinical description of exposure
medication, including dosage, duration and indication, diet
11. SOCIAL H/O
β’ Level of education
β’ Relationship
β’ Hobbies
β’ Alcohol use drugs(including rout of administration if applicable),
tobacco and travel in abroad.
β’ Vocation, including type of industry, past an
12. FAMILY H/O
β’ Presence of disease with recognized familial importance in
first degree relatives-type2 diabetes, tuberculosis, cancer,
hypertensions, allergy, heart disease, neurological or
psychiatric disease.
13. NUTRITIONAL HEALTH CHECK LIST
Day time intake of food like carbohydrate ,fat& protein daily
meals regularly calories expenditure.
14. COGNITION
β’ This changes are from mild to moderate
β’ There are some cognitive dysfunctions common in geriatrics
β’ Depression, delirium, dementia.
15. Depression scale
1 geriatric depression scale(GDS)
2 center of epidemiological studies depression scale(CES-D).
SCREENING FOR COGNATIVE functioning can be done easily
3 Mini mental status examination
16. VISION AND HEARING
visual testing can be done by asking patients to read few lines
from news paper. if patients can able to read head lines and
sentences there is a normal acuity. if only the head lines is
read there is moderate impairment and there is sever
impairment.
30. SUMMARY
In this we have seen about assessment for geriatric patient
where we need to address multiple aspects for geriatric
patient. The complexity of assessment in geriatric population
as it covers multiple system screening within valid tools is
necessary. to interact with geriatric population and good
understanding of their behavior help you to develop your skill
better manner.
31. References
1.Text book of prevention practice and community Physiotherapy by Dr.Bharti Vijay
Bellare, first edition :2018 isbn:978-9-5270-325-8
