Canadian Fundamentals of Aging Flashcards
Personal Care Home
- Private business
- Accommodation, meals
- Personal, family-like
LTC
- Accommodations
- 24hr nursing care
- Unable to care for themselves, no need for hospital
Five points to ensure age-specific approach
1) Interrelation of physical-psychosocial aging
2) Effects of disease/disability on function
3) Decreased efficiency of homeostatic mech.
4) lack of standards for health norms
5) Altered manifestations of disease
Early indicators of illness in OA
- Changes
- Falls
- Dehydration
- Loss of function
- Appetite
- Incontinence
- Dizziness
Delerium
- Med emergency
- Acute + fluctuating onset of confusion
- Sudden, often reversible with treatment of underlying disease
Dementia
- Gradual and progressive
- Alzheimer, lewy body, frototemporal, CJ (bac inf) and vascular dementia
Depression
Cluster of symptoms, most days, at least 2 wks.
Agnosia
Loss of ability to recognize names and people
apraxia
Loss of ability to perform familiar tasks
Decisions that effect retirement
- Finances
- attitude toward work
- Age
Health - Self-perception of ability to adjust
Phases of retirement
Remote - Anticipation Near - Prep + fantasizing Honeymoon - Euphoria Disenchantment - Letdown/boredom Reorientation - Develop satisf. lifestyle Stability - meaningful involvement Termination - illness/back to work
Core features of widowing/greif
Depression, anxiety, loneliness
Social Isolation
`Lack of sense of belonging, social engagement, quality relationships
Loneliness
Dissatisfaction with level of social contact
Neglect
Inaction
