Falls in the elderly can cause all kinds of injuries and are responsible for many of the brain injuries older adults. Falls are the primary cause that older adults are admitted to hospital and this increases the need for medical services. The older the person is the more likely the fall will end up in death, the need to be in a long-term care facility or be put in a nursing home to recover. Not only does a fall cause physical problems but it can cause psychological issues for the individual. The fall itself causes the older adult to develop a fear of falling and impacts their everyday life.
The risk of becoming infected with C. difficile is ten times greater for people age 65 and up compared with younger people. Are or have recently been hospitalized, especially for an extended period, live in a nursing home or long term care facility, have serious underlying illness or a weakened immune system as a result of a medical condition or treatment (such
Introducing the “Care for memories initiative” Amongst thousands of conditions that can affect the human body, neurological dysfunctions are highly devastating for families because they can affect someone’s ability to complete basic daily functions on their own. Some of these disorders can affect the older adult or appear as an effect of aging. Others may strike early on in life. Whatever the case, people affected by these conditions will most likely require partial or complete care which will most likely be provided by an immediate family member who’s life will be greatly affected by this unexpected occurrence. For instance, people usually associate dementia with old age but in recent years it has been shown that adults, as young as 50 have
Elder abuse: disparities between older people's disclosure of abuse, evident signs of abuse, and high risk of abuse. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Vol. 55 Issue 8, p1224-1228. DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01269.x Garre-Olmo, J., Planas-Pujol, X., López-Pousa, S., Juviny, D., Vil, A., (2009). Prevalence and risk factors of suspected elder abuse subtypes in people aged 75 and older.
Employers are now requiring employees to spend more out of pocket for benefits due to the rising cost of medical costs. With the ever rising cost of prescription drugs employers are taking steps to curb the costs of medicines. Some employers require
2006). The ageing persons gait will also change size, for men it will widen and women’s will get narrower, which greatly increases the risk of falls in older females especially. Bone loss is another major problem facing the older adult. As we age loss of bone density and thinning of bone tissue occurs. Martini and Nath (2009) describe this as an age-related loss in
As a result of, the recent recession the group hardest hit were youth, the elderly, indigenous people, the disabled, and women (Social trends and emerging challenges and their impact on public health n.d.). It is social problems such as this that demands the most attention, from our public personnel. If problems such as this are going to be dealt with, by either a private or public agency, or the combination of both of these, there will be a need to hire extra staff, more employable hours will be needed, and the finances to do it (Schottland,
One primary factor is the population growth patterns. Currently the American population is growing older, which means there is both a growing need for nurses as well as the implication that the workforce of nurses is also growing in age, roughly half of the nurses being 50 years or older. In most professions the reason for shortage is more directly related a lack of qualified applicants to the profession, in the case of nursing it is more directly related to the colleges and universities cannot meet demands of an increased enrollment. The inability to increase the enrollment is secondary to a lack of resources to both teach courses as well as issues related to student saturation at clinical sites (Fox & Abrahamson, 2009). A third contributing factor is very interrelated to nursing education is that nursing education has shifted from hospital-based diploma programs to university and college programs.
I have faced many stereotypes before enrolling onto adult nursing programme and unfortunately some of them they have not been so good. The media is a powerful vehicle for shaping social attitudes and sending important messages to the
Negligence and malpractice are increasing within nursing fields even though nurses and students who will become nurses are educated about their legal and professional responsibilities and limitations. Negligence is a failure of fulfilling the responsibilities that the nurse has which results in malpractice. A nurse can be sued for malpractice when she fails to take care of the patient; it results in patient’s injury, however we should keep in mind that not every case ends with the injury, but still it is a malpractice. Many nurses are not fully committed to perform the skills they should, and they enter the profession only because of benefits. Malpractice can be increasing because of a severe shortage of trained nurses, and it happened because of a few factors: nurses are required to work longer shifts; they can lead to fatigue and increase the risk for an error; also short Nursing courses providing degrees with no sufficient time to train nurses results in malpractice.