Someone who has not enjoyed good health over a long period of time, however, may be able to adjust well to a more limited physical level of ability, perhaps having compensated for poor health by developing intellectual interests. Employment Health is also likely to have had an impact on a person’s employment opportunities, either making employment impossible at times or restricting the types of jobs they could do. Whether or not people are able to work has a huge effect on their level of confidence and self-esteem. Employment may also have an effect on the extent to which people have
It also allows the patient and caregiver the possibility to organize their lives better in face of the progressive mental decline. It also contributes to prevent patients from delays in their admissions to in-home nursing facilities. The study reveals, on the one hand, a strange behavior on the part of general practitioners (GPs) who are not inclined to register early signs of dementia in their patients. On the other hand, the article shows that despite the improvement observed in dealing with dementia, early detection is not a widespread practice in primary care. Definitions of vulnerable population According to the Northern Arizona University (2001), the vulnerable population is a segment of the general population who is more likely to develop health problems or other kind of problems as a result of exposure to risk.
In rural or underserved areas, access to a physician may be very limited, so more patients depend on nurse practitioners for care. With more lenient prescriptive authority also comes the opportunity for nurse practitioners to have more autonomy, in some cases they may choose to open their own practices depending on their state regulations. This would greatly improve access to care. Nurse practitioners having more prescriptive authority and more autonomy can also ultimately decrease healthcare costs. Per Fairman, Rowe, Hassmiller, and Shalala (2011), up to twelve nurse practitioners can be trained for the cost of educating a single physician.
Half of the individuals were divorced and the other half was widowed. The study found that widowed individuals showed a higher life satisfaction before than after, whereas the divorced group showed the opposite result. Research into life changes can be criticized for being correlation they therefore cannot imply causality, there also may be other factors to consider such as depression and chronic physical illnesses which may lead to life problems rather than be caused by the. Rahe’s study had a correlation of 0.118 which isn’t very strong as a per correlation has a correlation of 1. Rahe’s study can also be deemed as androcentric and ethnocentric.
Dementia is most commonly associated with the elderly, therefore a younger person may find it more difficult to access help and advice as it is less common in younger people. They may still be working at the time of diagnosis, have financial commitments, dependant children to look after and it may have a greater impact on their social life. The younger you are the more likely you are to get an early diagnosis, meaning the individual might have a greater understanding of how dementia will affect them compared to an older person with dementia. Being diagnosed as an elderly person is different because they tend to not have as many commitments and may find it
Assessment 2 (b): Individual Essay Stage 2 Poor prognosis is when an individual is diagnosed with a disease that typically has poor expectations of any treatment being successful or not changing treatment and their lives remain the same the patient’s chances of recovery are limited (Bruera, 2001). When experiencing a newly diagnosed condition with a poor outcome, the patient can often respond in various ways that include emotional, physical, cognitive and/or behavioral reactions. Patients respond in these different ways because of how they individually manage the news of their prognosis. The following paragraphs will discuss the different type of responses that a patient may experience when dealing with being diagnosed. For example if a patient is told they have been diagnosed with a poor prognosis their instant reaction is usually shock, which is a sudden surprising or upsetting event and experience that disturbs your emotions.
However the care that the individual's will receive will differ, the way they both take the news that they have dementia and their attitudes towards it will be very different. I believe an older person will cope better with the news that they have dementia because it is more common and their is alot of help and care available for them, whereas a young person with dementia may struggle because they may have to give up work and often struggle to access the right care and support they need. 1.3 Describe how the experience of dementia may be different for individuals - Who have a learning disability Dementia generally affects people with learning disabilities in similar ways to people without a learning disability, but there are some important differences. People with a learning disability: · Are at greater risk of developing dementia at a young age - particularly
| | |Health Disparity And Its Victims | | | | | When one thinks of modern health care in the United States, patients receiving different quality health care than other patients because of race, gender, or age seems like something from the past. These differences, called health disparities, affect the morbidity and mortality of diseases by someone’s race, culture, environment, sex, age, socioeconomic status, etc. (AMA, 1995-2012). When speaking of health disparities, it is important to note that these differences will include not only a difference of disease according to the aforementioned list, but also a difference in regard to the type of facilities, access to care, and services available to those listed above. An example of health disparities, and how it affects the outcome of disease according to race, would be if African American males from an urban community had a higher mortality rate from cancer than a Caucasian male from a non-urban community.
In this case, if a patient in the ward was to catch one off these infections from dirty cups, it would be harder for them to recover due to them being elderly and having a lower immune system than someone that was young and healthy, so in some cases little infections like this from been given a dirty cup to drink from can sometimes lead to death. Another recommendation that was made in the scenario in a ward which included a patient suffering from dementia was that staff should be trained more regularly on how to manage patients when lifting them to different places. I recommended that
Some people recover within a few hours. Other people take a few weeks to recover. In rare cases concussions cause more serious problems. Repeated concussions or a severe concussion may require surgery or lead to long-lasting problems with movement, learning, or speaking. Because of