A Study of Medication Label Among Elderly Person

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1320-1322
Author(s):  
Siti Farhana Zakaria ◽  
Irwan Zakaria ◽  
Intan Natasha Abdul Azim
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Person ◽  
Medication Label

Osteoporose und Frakturrisiko beim älteren Sportler: Aktuelle Guidelines

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fragility Fracture ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Vitamin D Supplementation ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Off Label Use ◽  
Risk Of Falling ◽  
Treatment Of Osteoporosis ◽  
Pharmacological Prevention ◽  
Age Related

A Fragility Fracture is nowadays looked upon to be the most important clinical symptom of osteoporosis. The sportive elderly have a limited risk to suffer from this event. Mechanical loading of the skeleton which is associated with most sporty activities prevents age related bone loss. Furthermore, if a fracture happens as a result from sporty activity, the criterion of a fragility fracture is usually not met. Elderly sportsmen who want to be reassured or who are going to restart activity after a break can be offered a fracture risk calculation by means of FRAX. Correct interpretation of the risk scores needs knowledge of the boundary conditions the algorithm is based on. In contrast a DEXA scan is rarely indicated in this situation. Vitamin D Supplementation can generally be adviced for every elderly person in our region, especially for the sportive ones. Sufficient intake of calcium and protein shall be achieved by a healthy diet. Despite of the risk of falling that is usually associated with any sportive activity it may be summarized, that there is less fractures in active people. As long as human beings stay mobile and active, pharmacological prevention or treatment of osteoporosis is rarely indicated. An exeption from this is osteoanabolic treatment of insufficiency and stress fractures. This shall be mentioned here even though it is an “off-label” use of the drugs.

HOME CARE IN OUTPATIENT CARE – STATE AND DEVELOPMENT IN BULGARIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 571-574
Author(s):  
Ivanka Stambolova ◽  
Stefan Stambolov
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Health And Social Care

In outpatient care the home care, including hospices, is recognized as a model for providing quality, cost-effective and charitable care. The focus is mainly on the care that helps everyday lifeof the patient as well as the relatives, rather than on treatment, and in most cases it takes place in the patients' home. In Europe, in recent years there has been a real "boom" in home care due to demographic processes linked to increased needs for elderly care and chronically ill under the conditions of limited financial resources.In outpatient medical care in our country by means of a national framework contract there are regulated visits to the patient's home by a doctor, as well as visits by medical staff employed by him - nurse, midwife, medical assistant / paramedic / for manipulation, counseling and monitoring. At the same time there is no regulated legal activity in the Republic of Bulgaria, which is essentially the subject of home care.Since 1994 „Caritas“ has carried out the "Home Care" service, which provides a complex - health and social care for over 360 sick adults in a place where the elderly person feels the most comfortable - in their own home. „Caritas Home Care“ is provided by mobile teams of nurses and social assistants who visit the elderly at home and provide them with the necessary care according to their health and social needs.With the establishment of the first „Home Care Center“ in Lozenets region, Sofia, with the support of the PHARE ACCESS program in 2003, the Bulgarian Red Cross introduces in Bulgaria an integrated model for provision of health care and social services in the home of adults, chronically ill and people with permanent disabilities. To date, there are a number of problems in home care related to the realization of home care for patients in need in out-of-hospital settings: lack of legal regulation for home care, lack of qualified staff in outpatient care; lack of organization and structures for care; unsettled funding and the inability of the part of the population that is most in need of care to pay for it, there is no regulation to control the activity. Although home care began over 20 years ago, our country is yet to make its way to the European program called „Home care in Europe“.

scholarly journals AnkFall—Falls, Falling Risks and Daily-Life Activities Dataset with an Ankle-Placed Accelerometer and Training Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1889
Author(s):  
Francisco Luna-Perejón ◽  
Luis Muñoz-Saavedra ◽  
Javier Civit-Masot ◽  
Anton Civit ◽  
Manuel Domínguez-Morales
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Person ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Learning Classifier ◽  
The People ◽  
Activity Types ◽  
Remote Monitoring Systems ◽  
Secondary Study

Falls are one of the leading causes of permanent injury and/or disability among the elderly. When these people live alone, it is convenient that a caregiver or family member visits them periodically. However, these visits do not prevent falls when the elderly person is alone. Furthermore, in exceptional circumstances, such as a pandemic, we must avoid unnecessary mobility. This is why remote monitoring systems are currently on the rise, and several commercial solutions can be found. However, current solutions use devices attached to the waist or wrist, causing discomfort in the people who wear them. The users also tend to forget to wear the devices carried in these positions. Therefore, in order to prevent these problems, the main objective of this work is designing and recollecting a new dataset about falls, falling risks and activities of daily living using an ankle-placed device obtaining a good balance between the different activity types. This dataset will be a useful tool for researchers who want to integrate the fall detector in the footwear. Thus, in this work we design the fall-detection device, study the suitable activities to be collected, collect the dataset from 21 users performing the studied activities and evaluate the quality of the collected dataset. As an additional and secondary study, we implement a simple Deep Learning classifier based on this data to prove the system’s feasibility.

scholarly journals An Unsupervised Behavioral Modeling and Alerting System Based on Passive Sensing for Elderly Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rui Hu ◽  
Bruno Michel ◽  
Dario Russo ◽  
Niccolò Mora ◽  
Guido Matrella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Living Condition ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Remote Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence in combination with the Internet of Medical Things enables remote healthcare services through networks of environmental and/or personal sensors. We present a remote healthcare service system which collects real-life data through an environmental sensor package, including binary motion, contact, pressure, and proximity sensors, installed at households of elderly people. Its aim is to keep the caregivers informed of subjects’ health-status progressive trajectory, and alert them of health-related anomalies to enable objective on-demand healthcare service delivery at scale. The system was deployed in 19 households inhabited by an elderly person with post-stroke condition in the Emilia–Romagna region in Italy, with maximal and median observation durations of 98 and 55 weeks. Among these households, 17 were multi-occupancy residences, while the other 2 housed elderly patients living alone. Subjects’ daily behavioral diaries were extracted and registered from raw sensor signals, using rule-based data pre-processing and unsupervised algorithms. Personal behavioral habits were identified and compared to typical patterns reported in behavioral science, as a quality-of-life indicator. We consider the activity patterns extracted across all users as a dictionary, and represent each patient’s behavior as a ‘Bag of Words’, based on which patients can be categorized into sub-groups for precision cohort treatment. Longitudinal trends of the behavioral progressive trajectory and sudden abnormalities of a patient were detected and reported to care providers. Due to the sparse sensor setting and the multi-occupancy living condition, the sleep profile was used as the main indicator in our system. Experimental results demonstrate the ability to report on subjects’ daily activity pattern in terms of sleep, outing, visiting, and health-status trajectories, as well as predicting/detecting 75% hospitalization sessions up to 11 days in advance. 65% of the alerts were confirmed to be semantically meaningful by the users. Furthermore, reduced social interaction (outing and visiting), and lower sleep quality could be observed during the COVID-19 lockdown period across the cohort.

The Mental Efficiency of the Elderly Person with Type II Diabetes Mellitus

1990 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. U'Ren ◽  
Matthew C. Riddle ◽  
Muriel D. Lezak ◽  
Margaret Bennington-Davis
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type Ii Diabetes ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Mental Efficiency

CONGENITAL ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA OF THE FACE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-548
Author(s):  
Howard Setleis ◽  
Benjamin Kramer ◽  
Marta Valcarcel ◽  
Arnold H. Einhorn
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Ectodermal Dysplasia ◽  
Single Gene ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Cutaneous Lesions ◽  
Median Ridge ◽  
The Face

Five children are described who have a previously undescribed collection of defects. The children are all of Puerto Rican ancestry. The features of their defects are: (1) an aged, leonine appearance; (2) absent eyelashes from either lid, or multiple rows of lashes on the upper lids with absence of those of the lower lids; (3) eyebrows which slant sharply upward and laterally; (4) scarlike defects on each temple erroneously attributed at first, to obstetrical forceps injury; (5) skin which is puckered around the eyes, as in an elderly person; (6) a scarlike median ridge of the chin; and (7) a nose and chin which seem rubbery when palpated. The temporal defects and abnormalities of the eyelashes are thought to be due to the multiple effects of a single gene. We suggest that this combination of cutaneous lesions limited to the face is probably the expression of an autosomal reccessive inheritance.

Prevention and Control of Trichotomy Infection in the Elderly Surgical Patient: An Umbrella Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Ferreira ◽  
Filipe Orfao ◽  
Cesar Fonseca ◽  
Lara Guedes de Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
World Health ◽  
Surgical Patient ◽  
Risk Of Infection ◽  
Umbrella Review ◽  
And Control

Introduction: The World Health Organization creates norms and guidelines for the adoption of good practices in health care that are provided to the surgical patient. In order to prevent and control infections associated with health care, the nurse must follow the guidelines for preparing the surgical patient for success. These infections can be particularly harmful to the elderly person given their vulnerability. The preoperative preparation, includes the trichotomy as one of the interventions to be performed, however, is one of the most controversial interventions that has caused in clinical practice, by the potential risk of infection in the surgical patient. Aim: To investigate the need for trichotomy, or removal of hair, in the preparation of the skin of the surgical patient, clarifying which is the most appropriate technique in the prevention of infection. Methodology: we conducted an umbrella review. The documentary research followed the consultation of bibliographic sources in the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health (CINAHL) and Public/Publisher Medline (PubMed) databases. The researched articles were grouped in a time horizon between 2011 and 2020. Afer data extraction, a narrative analysis was performed. Results: We found 40 articles from which 8 were selected. Conclusion: Trichotomy should be avoided by increasing the risk of infection of the surgical site. Innovative haircut and vacuum technologies can help in hair removal, mitigating the risk of contaminating the surgical incision. The timing of the trichotomy is not consensual among researchers.

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