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What is Geriatrics
Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly. It aims to promote health and to prevent and treat diseases and disabilities in older adults.
Geriatrics was separated from internal medicine as a distinct entity in the same way that pediatrics is separated from adult internal medicine and neonatology is separated from pediatrics
Gerontology
Gerontology is the branch of biomedical sciences that studies aging. The term “geriatrics” is used to refer specifically to the medical study of diseases and problems of the elderly.
Changes with ageing
Skin
Epidermis thinner and fragile
Dermis less elastin and flexible
Hypodermis thinner and less padding
UV light accelerates skin ageing
Senile purpura
Eye
Ptosis
Dry eye
Tearing
Flatten & uneven cornea with light scattering
Hyperopia (farsightedness)
Smaller pupil requiring brighter light to read
Slower dark adaptation
Reduced contrast sensitivity
Ear
Reduced sweat glands with increased ear wax affecting hearing
Cochlea degeneration causing high tone loss
Kidneys
Reduced ability to excrete water, waste products and drugs
Less tolerate water depletion
Loss of circulation rhythm with nocturia
Smaller and less expansible bladder with frequency of urine
Less contractable bladder with hesitancy
Bigger prostate with fair urine stream
Bone
Continual loss of bone mass from the 4th decade
Hormonal change with more bone resorption than formation
Less Ca absorption
Shorter and stoop
Brittle with easy fracture
New bone formation at the verge of joints
Cartilage thinner
Nervous system
30,000-50,000 neurons die each day with diminishing reserve
IQ slowly decline after the age of 25
Reduced short term memory
Decreases retrieval ability
Interrupted and less deep sleep
Reduced pain, touch, temperature, and vibration sensations
Reduced postural control and balance
heart
Heart becomes more rigid with decreased output
Heartbeat less responsive to stress
Heartbeat less variable with each breathing
Irregular heart beat more common with ageing
Systolic blood pressure increases with age
Pulse pressure widened with hardened vessels
Less efficient venous return prone to postural hypotension
Lungs
Lungs become more rigid with early closure of small airways
Less efficient blood gas exchange
Chest wall becomes more rigid too
Reduced lung volume and vital capacity
Bronchial villi thinner and cough reflex less effective
Reduced ability to cope with challenges like climbing stairs, running
Reduced immunity prone to chest infection
GIT
Saliva glands secret less with dry mouth
Taste and smell senses decline
Less healthy teeth affecting chewing/nutrition
Stomach muscle weakened and less hungry
Small intestine villi absorb less calcium, vitamin B12, folic acid
Large intestine muscle weakened and secrets less mucus prone to constipation
Less liver blood flow and function with fall in toxic substance/drug clearance
Bile thicker with cholesterol prone gallstone
Diseases in old age
Geriatri
Aging is a gradual, continuous process of natural change that begins in early adulthood. During early middle age, many bodily functions begin to gradually decline. People do not become old or elderly at any specific age. Traditionally, age 65 has been designated as the beginning of old age.
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2. Geriatrics
Geriatrics or geriatric medicine is a sub-
specialty of internal medicine and family
medicine that focuses on health care
of elderly people.
3. Geriatric nursing
Geriatric nursing: - Nursing care of the aged
patient given in the home, the hospital, or
special institutions such as nursing homes,
psychiatric institutions, etc.
5. The objectives of geriatric care
• Maintenance of health function
• Detection of diseases at early stages
• Prevention of deterioration of any existing
problem
6. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF GERIATRIC
CARE
1. Consider individuality. Consult his preferences.
2. Be patient, kind and sympathetic. Communicate effectively,
demonstrate respect.
3. Encourage independence and encourage him to make his
choices and decisions.
4. Assist elderly to achieve emotional stability.
5. Stimulate mental acuity and sensory input and physical activity
to uplift their self esteem, self concept and confidence.
7. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF
GERIATRIC CARE
6. Make elderly stay in home interesting and lively
7. Provide diversion /occupational therapy.
8. Maintain privacy
9. Handle them gently.
10. Make them comfortable by providing comfortable
bed, bed linen etc. keep bed dry, smooth and
unwrinkled.
8. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF
GERIATRIC CARE
11. Encourage them to maintain body hygiene, thus
regulate body temperature.
12. Assist them to take care of visual, auditory and
dental aid.
13. Protect from injuries, falls and accidents etc.
14. Ensure adequate nutrition.
15. Facilitate elimination. Encourage them to maintain
external genitalia hygiene.
9. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF GERIATRIC
CARE
16. Encourage them to do active range of motion exercises.
Maintain body alignment and posture. Encourage mobility.
17. Help elderly to establish good sleep patterns.
18 . Caution elderly about the use of drugs.
19 . Have them physically examined annually and whenever
needed.
20. Observe any psychophysical changes which alter their body
image and behaviour.
10. Principles guiding the
Gerontological Nursing Practice
• Aging is a natural process common to all living organisms.
• Various factors influence the aging process.
• Unique data and knowledge are used in applying the nursing
process to older population.
• Older adults share similar self-care and human needs with all
other human beings.
• Gerontological nursing strives to help older adults achieve
wholeness by reaching optimum levels of physical,
psychological, social and spiritual health.
16. HEARING
• Hearing loss-
• Usual progression from high tone or high frequency loss
to a general loss of both high and low tones.
• Consonants are not heard well.
• Hearing loss increases with age and greater in men.
• Increase in the sound threshold.
• Decreased speech discrimination.
• Cerumen impaction
17. HEARING
Assessment findings
• Increased volume of patients own voice.
• Turning of head toward speaker.
• Request of a speaker to repeat.
• Inappropriate answers
• The person may withdraw, demonstrate short attention
span and become frustrated, angry and depressed.
• Lack of response to a loud noise.
18. SMELL
Characteristics
• Changes in smell due to nasal sinus disease
preventing odours from reaching smell receptors
• Decreased discrimination of odours.
• Decreased more in men than women.
Assessment findings
• Inability to notice unpleasant odours
• Decreased appetite.
19. TASTE
Characteristics
• Taste buds decreases with age especially in men.
• Taste buds lost from the front to the back.
Assessment findings
• Complaints of food has no taste.
• Excessive use of sugar and salt.
• Inability to identify the foods.
• Decrease in appetite and weight loss.
• Decrease pleasure from food.
20. NERVOUS SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Gradual loss in the number of neurons with age and
no change in the neurotransmitter level.
• Brain tissue atrophy
• Decreased muscle tone, motor speed, and nerve
conduction velocity.
• Decrease in gait speed, decreased step length, stride
length, and arm swing.
21. NERVOUS SYSTEM
Assessment findings
• Decreased position and vibration sense
• Diminished reflexes, possible absent ankle jerks.
• Complaints of fall and impaired balance.
• Wide based gait with decreased arm swing.
22. CARDIO VASCULAR SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Valves of the heart become thick and rigid as a result of
sclerosis and fibrosis.
• Blood vessels become thick and rigid, resulting in
elevated blood pressure.
• Maximum heart rate and aerobic capacity decreases with
age.
• Decline in maximum oxygen consumption.
• Decreased baroreceptor sensitivity.
23. CARDIO VASCULAR SYSTEM
Assessment findings
• Normal blood pressure or below,
• Pre hypertension
• Stage I hypertension
• Stage II hypertension
• Prolonged tachycardia may occur following the stress.
24. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Weakening of intercostal respiratory muscles and the
elastic recoil of the chest wall diminishes.
• Residual volume and functional residual capacity
increase.
• Partial pressure of oxygen decreases
• Decrease in mucus transport or ciliary system, therefore
reduced clearance of mucus and foreign bodies.
26. GENITO URINARY SYSTEM
Female
• Thinning of the vaginal wall,
• Narrowing of vagina in size and loss of elasticity
• Decreased vaginal secretions resulting in vaginal dryness,
itching and decreased acidity
• Involution of the uterus and ovaries
• Decreased pubococcygeal muscle tone resulting in
relaxed vagina and perineum,
27. GENITO URINARY SYSTEM
Males
• Penis and testes decrease in size, and levels of
androgens diminishes
• Erectile dysfunction
28. GENITO URINARY SYSTEM
Assessment findings
• Vaginal dryness, painful intercourse.
• Atrophic vaginitis
• Urinary incontinence, BPH and prostatic
cancer
29. MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Declining muscle mass
• Decreased bone density, more in women.
• Decreased thickness and resiliency of
cartilage
• Bone resorption exceeds bone formation,
resulting in decline of bone density.
• Injuries to the cartilage
30. MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
• With age, the receptors in the joints and muscles loss
their ability to function, so there is a change in
balance.
• Walking with shorter step length, less leg lift, a wider
base, and tendency to lean forward
• With age less ability to stop a fall from occurring
31. MUSCULO SKELETAL
Assessment findings
• Muscle atrophy
• Increased incidence of fractures.
• Joint stiffness.
• Decreased bone density
• Alteration in posture, ability to transfer, and gait
• Complaint of dizziness.
32. INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Thinning of three layers of skin and decreased ability
to function as a barrier.
• Fewer melanocyte and decrease tanning.
• Less efficient thermoregulation because fewer sweat
glands.
• Drier skin because of decreased number of sebaceous
glands.
34. ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
Characteristics
• Decreased secretion of trophic hormones from pituitary gland.
• Blunted growth hormone release during the times of stress.
• Elevated vasopressin and exaggerated response to osmotic
challenge.
• Elevated levels of FSH and LH because of reduced end organ
response.
• Normal insulin secretion at rest and an age related decrease in
secretion in response to glucose overload.
36. IMMUNOLOGIC SYSTEM
Characteristics
• The function of T lymphocyte, such as cell mediated
immunity, declines with age due to involution and
atrophy of thymus gland.
• Decreased T cell helper activity, increased T cell
suppressor activity.
• Declined B cell function as a result of T cell changes.
39. Disengagement Theory
• Refers to an inevitable
process in which many of the
relationships between a
person and other members of
society are severed.
40.
41. ACTIVITY THEORY
• Activity theory emphasizes
the importance of ongoing
social activity.
• This theory suggests that a
person's self-concept is
related to the roles held by
that person
43. EXCHANGE THEORY
The exchange theory
simply states that people
should end the relationship
with another person if
nothing can be gained or
exchanged from that
person.
44. Jung’s theory
• As individuals age, they go through a re
evaluation stage at midlife then they begin to
question whether the decisions and the choices
they have made were the right choices for
them
45.
46. CONTINUITY THEORY
• In later life, adults tend to use continuity as an
adaptive strategy to deal with changes that
occur during normal aging.
47.
48.
49. Error & Fidelity Theory
• Accumulation of errors in the synthesis of
cellular DNA and RNA, the basic building
blocks of the cell.
50.
51. CROSS LINK THEORY
• It explains aging in terms of the accumulation
of errors by cross- linking, or the stiffening of
proteins in the cell. Proteins link with glucose
and other sugars in the presence of oxygen and
become stiff and thick.
52. FREE RADICAL THEORY
• Free radicals are natural by products of
cellular activity and are always present to
some extent. With ageing, the damage caused
by free radicals occurs faster than the cells can
repair themselves, and cell death occurs.
53.
54.
55. Glycation Theory
• Glycation is the nonenzymic reaction between
glucose & tissue protein.
• The negative effects of this process on proteins
may be a major contributor to age changes.
56.
57. Programmed Cellular Aging
Theory
• Suggests that aging may be a result of an
impairment of the cell in translating necessary
RNAs as a result of increased turnoffs of
DNA.
58. AUTOIMMUNE THEORY
• As the body ages the immune system is less
able to deal with foreign organisms &
increasingly make mistakes by identifying
ones own tissues as foreign.
59. Neuroendocrine Control Theory
The age related changes in
response to hormones may be
the result of changes in the
receptors for hormones rather
than changes in the activity
of the endocrine hormones
themselves.
60. Psychological Problems in older populations
• Depression
• Dementia
• Delirium
• Alcohol and substance abuse
62. HEALTH ASSESSMMENT
• THE HEALTH HISTORY
• PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
• COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
• FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT
• MENTAL STATUS ASSESSMENT
• ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL SUPPORTS
• ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY ASSESSMENT
• INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT
63. COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
• F- Fluids
• A-Aeration
• N- Nutrition
• C- Communication
• A-Activity
• P- Pain
• E- Elimination
• S- Socialization and Social skills
65. MENTAL STATUS ASSESSMENT
COGNITIVE MEASURES
• Mini mental status examination
• Clock drawing test
• The Mini – Cog
MOOD MEASURES
Geriatric depression scale
66. INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT
• Social resources
• Economic resources
• Mental health
• Physical health
• Activities of daily living
68. Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension
Scheme
• Objective - To disburse pension to the
destitute old age persons.
• Assistance provided 400/-per month
• Beneficiary
• Beyond 65 years of age, belonging to
BPL. And 60 years above for persons
affected by leprosy, blindness,
insanity, paralysis and loss of limb.
69. Helpage India
• It is a secular, nonprofit,
largest voluntary
organization which was
set up in 1978.
70. National Policy On Older Persons
• Formed in January1999 under Ministry of
social justice and empowerment.
• The goal of the national policy is the well
being of older persons..
71. • Annapurna scheme
Free food grains upto 10 kg per month are
provided to destitute older persons above 65
years of age who are eligible for pension but
not receiving it.
72. • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
provides separate queues to senior citizens in
the hospitals.
73. Ministry of Railways
• Concessions to senior citizens are
hiked from 30 to 40 percent for men
above 60 years and for women above
58 years for booking and cancellation
of railway tickets.
74. • Ministry of Civil Aviation
• Fifty percent discount on basic fare for all
domestic flights in Economy class for above
65 years of age.
75. • Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
• The benefit is given after 65 years of age for
both men and women.
76. • Department of post office A new scheme
called Senior Citizen Saving scheme has been
notified.
78. Primary prevention
• Control of BP, weight and diabetes
• Avoid smoking and alcohol
• Regular, moderate physical exercise
• Avoidance of drug abuse and self medication
• Well balanced diet with plenty of vegetables
and fruits, low in saturated fats, refined sugars
and fast foods.
79. Primary prevention
• Cultivation of interest in reading, listening to music and
other recreational activities.
• Avoid plenty of fluid intake
• Periodical screening for blood pressure, vision and
hearing
• Plan for future financial, housing security.
• Yoga exercises and meditation
• Immunization against influenza, pneumonia, tetanus,
hepatitis B
80. Secondary prevention
• Educate about danger signals of disease.
• Educate woman about BSE
• Pap smear examination for menopause women.
81. Tertiary prevention
• Cataract surgery, provision of spectacles
• Hearing aids, artificial limbs, prosthesis.
• Physiotherapy, vocational therapy, psychological and
social therapy depending upon the functional
capacities.
• Deaddiction counseling
• Establishment of old age homes and old age clubs
• Establishment of geriatric clinics
82. RESPONSIBILITIES OF COMMUNITY
HEALTH NURSE
• Health assessment
• Arranging and promoting nutrition
• Promoting activity and exercise
• Preventive care of elderly
• Providing psychological support
83. FUNCTIONS OF A GERONTOLOGICAL
NURSE
• G (Guiding)
• E ( Eliminating)
• R ( Respecting)
• O (Observing)
• N ( Noticing)
• T (Teaching)
• O (Opening Channels)
• L ( Listening)