Gerontologic Health Care Team Flashcards
● A medical doctor who specializes in the care of the elderly
● Provides treatment of diseases affecting the older adults as they
age.
● It includes diagnosing and treating a wide range of conditions like
dementia, alzheimer, cancer, hearing/visual loss, osteoarthritis,
osteoporosis, diabetes, heart failure.
GERONTOLOGIST / GERIATRICIAN
● An advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) or clinical nurse specialist
(CNS) with graduate level of education (master and doctorate
degree)in gerontology
● Diagnose, treat and manage chronic illness while coordinating care
with physicians
● Risk assessment, immunization, screening test, examines
patient, counseling, health check-up, preventive care, provides
prescription
GERONTOLOGY NURSE PRACTITIONER
Nursing specialty that provides care for the older adults
○ Works in collaboration with older adults, their families and
communities
○ Focuses healthy aging, maximum functioning, quality of life
○ Provides routine assessment, physical care, administer
medications, patient education, explain therapeutic regimens
Nurse Gerontologist/Gerontology Nurse
Personal care Attendant (PCA), patient support assistant (PSA), certified nursing assistant licensed practical nurse
(LPN), nursing assistant (NA), nursing aide, and nursing orderly.
○ Assistants in Nursing are healthcare staff who assume delegated aspects of basic care
○ Some of these provider may have standardized education
while others do not
○ Take care of patients in hospitals, long-term facilities, nursing
homes
○ These tasks include bathing, assisting with feeding collecting
specimens, and transporting individuals
○ Delegate unregulated nursing roles
■ Take vital signs
■ Cleaning/sterilizing Treatment area
■ Serves meal/ Feeding patient
■ Bathing/Dressing, personal grooming changing linen
■ Turning/moving patient
NURSING ASSISTANT
● Providing therapeutic support for older adults experiencing sensory
changes, motor disabilities, physical injuries, impairèd functioning
● Help someone recover by improving their ability to do their
day-to-day tasks or everyday routinary activities
● Assists individuals with impaired functioning to function better without assistance and with independence
● Helps patients to perform skills needed for activities of daily living (cookIng, feeding, bathing, dressing), occupation/work and
everyday activities (pick up, write, run)
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST
● Or Geriatric Physical Therapist, physiotherapist
● Helps patients promote and restore health by restoring balance,
improving mobility, movement, and exercise
● Assist older to recover from trauma, injuries, paralysis
● Example: Stroke, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer
● Reduce pain and prevent falls and contracture
● Work in nursing home, skilled nursing facility, extended facility,
community support service agency
PHYSICAL THERAPIST
is a person w/ special knowledge about nutrition and
food
Nutritionist
has special knowledge about therapeutic diets required to
maintain health and treat disease.
Dietitian
● They are generally concerned with special diets in the hospitals to
meet nutritional needs of individuals
● Supervise the preparation of meals to ensure that individuals
receive the proper diet
● Recommends healthy diets and gives advice to patients and
families about balanced diets.
DIETITIAN/ NUTRITIONIST
● Role is to ensure that older adults receive sound and
appropriate care in the best setting
● To ensure that the best care is delivered, oversees the
processes of care delivered
● This tole is often being the most involved in the person’s care.
● Serve as a patient, family, and facility advocate
● Address individual’s concerns, needs; Manage conflict, issues,
problems
CASE MANAGER
counsels patients and significant others
regarding problems, such as finances, family condition, living
arrangement, day-to-day living.
MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER
● Provides support and assistance to not usual for health problems
● They provide care by conducting psychosocial assessments
● To identify mental and emotional distress, crisis, psychosocial
help
MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER
● Chaplains, pastors, clergy, rabbis, priests, spiritual advisors
● Healthcare team attend the spiritual needs of patients
● Services on a regular on-call basis or full-time chaplains,
hospital-affiliated
● They usually offer regular scheduled religious services
● The nurse is often instrumental in identifying the person’s desire for
spiritual support
SPIRITUAL PERSONNEL SUPPORT
