This document provides information on trauma care services, old age homes, orphanages, and homes for the destitute. It discusses the definition of trauma and types of injuries. It outlines the key steps in caring for trauma patients. It describes the relevance of old age homes in India and different types. It defines an orphanage and lists some charities. It discusses the causes and management of poverty and destitution in India.

1. Lesson Plan on
• TRAUMA SERVICE
• OLD AGE HOME
• ORPHANAGE
• HOME FOR DESTITUTE
Presented By
Dipinti Lakha
4th BSc Nursing
Karnataka College of Nursing

2. TRAUMA CARE SERVICES

3. Trauma Care Services
Trauma is defined as injury that results
when energy is transferred from the
environment to human tissue. Injuries are
major causes of disability in the United
States accounting more deaths annually.
Injury is the fifth leading cause of death in
all groups and the number one killer of
persons 1 to 34 years old. Every emergency
nurse must be prepared to care for critically
injured trauma patient.

4. Trauma Care Services
In medicine, Trauma (injury) is damage to a
biological organism caused by physical harm
from an external source

5. Types of Trauma
• Major Trauma :- Trauma with heavy injury
to the body
• Minor Trauma :- Trauma that cause less
injury to the body

6. Care of Trauma Patient
• Establishment and maintain an adequate
airway
• Ensure effective ventilation
• Control hemorrhage
• Initiate continuous cardiac monitoring
• Place a nasogastric or orogastric tube

8. Care of Trauma Patient
• Collect and send appropriate laboratory
studies
• Initiate continuous monitoring of O2
saturation
• Monitoring vital signs
• Give comfort measures

9. OLD AGE HOMES

10. Old Age Home
A retirement home is sometimes called an
old age home. It can also be said as a multi
residence housing facility intended for senior
citizens.
• Relevance of old age homes in India
• Migration of young couples from the rural
areas to cities in search of better
employment opportunities to fend for
themselves.

11. Old Age Home
• Elders who have been in control of the
household for a long time are unwilling to
give the responsibility to their children.
• Youngsters on their part are sometimes
resentful of the attitude of their parents
• Many youngsters have moved to places far
away from their native homes and in the
recent past to many countries abroad. So
even if they want to they cannot
accommodate their parents in their own
homes.

12. Old Age Home
• Elders are sometimes too incapacitated or
unwell to look after themselves or get
medical care especially in an emergency.
All these have made the old age homes
seem more relevant in the Indian context
than ever before.

13. Types of Old Age Home
• Free Old Age Home
It cares for the destitute old people who
have no one else to care for them. They are
given shelter, food, clothing, and medical
care

14. Types of Old Age Home
• Paid Old Age Home
It is a type of old age home where care is
provided for a fee. Either the senior citizen
himself should pay or any one from his
family should pay for the care provided.
Nowadays such “Retirement” homes
have become very popular in India and they
are well worth considering.

15. ORPHANAGE

16. Orphanage
Orphanage is the name to describe a
residential institution devoted to the care of
orphan children whose parents are deceased
or otherwise unable to care them. Parents and
sometimes grand parents are legally
responsible for supporting children but in the
absence of these or relatives willing to care for
the children, they become a ward of the state
and orphanages are a way of providing for their
care and housing. Children are educated within
or outside of the orphanage.

17. Charities
• SOS children’s village is the world’s largest
non governmental, non denominational child
welfare organization. It’s mission is to provide
stable homes and loving families for orphaned
and abandoned children around the world
• Dr. Barnardo's Home
• The Miracle Foundation is concerned with
helping orphans in India

18. ORPHANAGE IN INDIA
• Seva Sandan Orphanage & Training
Institute, Koramangala
• Emmanuel Children Home Society, Hayath
Nagar
• Holy Cross Social Service Centre
• Life Giving Home Charitable Trust
• Society for Upliftment of Blind

19. HOMES FOR DESTITUTE

20. Destitute
Any person found begging in a public place in
such a way as to cause or likely to cause
annoyance to persons frequently the place or
otherwise to create a nuisance.
Any idle person found in a public place,
whether or not he is begging who has visible
means of subsistence or place of residence or
is unable to give a satisfactory account of
himself.

21. Destitution
Destitution is a state of object poverty, a
state of extreme deprivation whereby a
family is not able to obtain even the
minimum quantity of food for the survival its
members. Destitute population is treated as
living below the poverty line. India has a
population of more than 300 million living
below the poverty line

22. Causes of Poverty
• Unemployment
• Distorted socio-economic development
• Unequal distribution of national wealth
• Decreasing allocations on health, housing,
nutrition and education
• Increasing allocations on non-productive
ventures of false prestige

23. Causes of Poverty
• Crime and corruption
• Political system based on casteism
communalism dynastism and mutual
hatred
• Problem of mounting debt burden due
to years of misappropriation

24. Problem Outcomes
• Poor housing
• Insanitary surrounding
• Underfeeding
• Under nutrition
• Illiteracy and ignorance
• Not getting food for survival
• High morbidity, mortality and high fertility
rates

25. Management
• Consideration for poor by the government
• Development of homes
• Poverty alleviation through employment
generation
• Vocation oriented education
• Family planning approaches

26. Management
• Taking of finger impressions and
photographs
i. The director may authorize the taking of
finger impressions and photographs of any
destitute person residing in a welfare home

27. Management
ii. After the expiry of two years from the date of
discharge of a destitute person from a welfare
home, the Director shall on the application
from that person deliver to him the sheet upon
which finger impression have been made
together with the negatives and copies of
photographs taken of him and if no such
application is received after the said period of
2 years and before the expiry of 3 years from
the date of discharge those records shall be
destroyed

28. Management
iii. The director may retain 3 copies of the
photographs taken of the destitute person for
maintaining a register of destitute person
admitted to and discharged from welfare homes
iv. Minister may establish welfare homes
The Minister may appoint superintendents and
others officers for the management of such
welfare homes.
Every superintendents or officer shall be
deemed to be a public servant within the
meaning of the Penal code