Module 6 Flashcards
1
Q
key considerations for healthy ageing
A
- human rights
- gender equality
- equality and non discrimination
- equity
- intergenerational solidarity
2
Q
what are the main problems related to pathology
A
geriatric
* immobility
* instability
* incontience
* impaired cognition
3
Q
how is burden of disease measured
A
- measured using the summary measure DALY
- 1 DALY is 1 year of healthy life lost due to ilness and/or death
4
Q
markers of frailty
A
- inability to perform 1 or more basic activities of daily living
- a stroke
- depression
- dementia
- hisotry of falls
- malnutrition
- incontience
- difficulty walking
5
Q
complications of sacropenia
A
- cachexia - loss of both muscle mass and muscl function as well as gait speed
- osterosacropenia
6
Q
interventions for sacropenia
A
- resistence training
- adequate protein
- adequate calcium intake
- vitamin D
7
Q
weight loss in older adults can cause?
A
- cachexia
- wasting and failure to thrive
- anoerixa
- unintentional weight loss
- decrease in appetite and energy intake
8
Q
classification of incontience
A
- transient (reversible - a change in health status, medication or environment
- persistant (chronic) - further classified as
* stress
* urgency
* mixed
* nocturnal enuresis
* post- micturition dribble
* continous
* overactive bladder
* functional
9
Q
what are the risk factors of incontinence
A
- older age
- obesity
- lower urinary tract symptoms
- infections
- family history
- coughing and chornic lung disease
- diet
