17. To answer the main question (In elder
people, is there a link between dyspnea
and loneliness?), the most important
aspect of the research became the
relationship between living alone and
dyspnea treated with social care or
sedation. It was as follows:
18. In this table 1; those patients who live
alone in this old age need a social care
more than medical care (P=0.000).
19.
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ddaattaa aaccccoorrddiinngg ttoo lliivviinngg
cciirrccuummssttaanncceess,, ii..ee.. tthhiiss
eellddeerr lliivveess aalloonnee oorr lliivveess
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LLiivveess
aalloonnee
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aalloonnee
PP vvaalluuee
EEdduuccaattiioonn
HHiigghh eedduuccaatteedd 8833 111111
00..000000
LLeessss eedduuccaatteedd 336622 112277
GGeennddeerr
FFeemmaallee 221111 9977
00..009955
MMaallee 223344 114411
AAggee
6600ss 9966 112299
7700ss 116611 8899 00..000000
8800≤≤ 118888 2200
RReelliieevveedd bbyy
MMeeddiiccaall ccaarree 4433 222233
00..000000
SSoocciiaall ccaarree 440022 1155
FFrreeqquueennccyy
FFrreeqquueenntt 336644 8800
00..000000
IInnffrreeqquueenntt 8811 115588
CChhrroonniicc cchheesstt
ddiisseeaasseess
PPrreesseenntt 33 6655
00..000000
AAbbsseenntt 444422 117733
CChhrroonniicc hheeaarrtt
ddiisseeaasseess
PPrreesseenntt 339988 114477
00..000000
AAbbsseenntt 4477 6644
OOtthheerr cchhrroonniicc
ddiisseeaasseess
PPrreesseenntt 223333 2299
00..000000
AAbbsseenntt 221122 220099
This table 2; shows the cross relations of
living circumstances with all other items.
There was a significant link between
dyspnea (whether organic or
psychological) in elder people and living
alone. Both females and males were
affected with no significant difference,
this means “we are dealing with an
important social view for human life”.
21.
22.
23.
24. When I analyzed the patient’s data according to the successful way of treatment,
whether treated with social care and sedation or treated with medications other
than sedatives and/or maneuvers:
25.
26. Discussion:
Patients who live alone in this old age need a social care
more than medical care (P=0.000). They are afraid of
death especially at night when they may die and others
are far away and no one can save them. So, they seek
attention through involuntary dyspnea to keep their
relatives around them. They sleep in crowded and open
places where people are found enormously. Once they are
admitted to ICU, they sleep deeply. This is the cause of
nomenclature “lonely elder syndrome”.
27. This syndrome affects elder people
especially if they have chronic cardiac
diseases, if they were less educated, and its
attacks occur frequently. It occurs in both
females and males without significant
difference. Its incidence increases with
time.
28.
29.
30.
31. AApppplliiccaattiioonn::
Every patient aged more than 60 years comes to ER with
dyspnea with/without suffocation must undergo previous
investigations to exclude organic causes of dyspnea, if
there is no organic cause, it is ‘Lonely Elder Syndrome”,
treat it properly.