Pressure Ulcer Stages
Elderly
Elder Abuse
Psychosocial Health
Changes & Diseases
100
Full-thickness tissue loss with base-covered by slough or eschar
What is Unstageable?
100
Elderly must have 3 or more symptoms (weakness, poor energy/endurance, slow movement, low # of activites, unexplained weight loss of more than 10 pounds in the last year) to be considered this
What is frail?
100
The percentage of elderly that abused in the community
What is 10%?
100
4 ways to promote psychosocial health in the elderly
What is enhance self esteem, fostering a sense of control, facilitating independence, and dealing with memory loss?
100
This disease has a gradual onset and can be caused by Trans Ischemic Attacks (TIA) and Parkinsons
What is dementia?
200
Full-thickness tissue loss with exposed bone, tendon or muscle
What is Stage 4?
200
Duration of more than 6 months and has exacerbations and remissions
What is chronic illness?
200
Isolation, shame and fear of reprisal
What are the reasons elderly fail to report abuse?
200
Retirement, sexuality, housing, death, and roles and relationships
What are the psychosocial changes in aging?
200
A psychiatric disease that increases the risk of suicide in males over the age of 85
What is depression?
300
Intact skin with nonblanchate redness
What is Stage 1?
300
4 things that increase a patient's risk of developing fraility
What are age, nutrition, smoking and depression?
300
4 signs of elder abuse
What are bruising, recurring pressure ulcers, UTIs and behavioral changes?
300
A way to promote psychosocial health for an elderly person by asking about person, place and time
What is reality orientation?
300
The involves flucuating levels of consciousness and acute confusion, has an acute onset, curable if you know the cause and is always secondary to another illness.
What is delirium?
400
Full-thickness tissue loss (subcutaneous fat visible)
What is Stage 3?
400
Sudden onset of symptoms usually lasting less than 6 months and the patient gets better
What is acute illness?
400
Prevent and manage a crisis, carry out treatment plan, control symptoms, design time frames to focus on treatments, manages changes in the course of the disease, prevent social isolation, attempt to normalize interactions
What are the 7 tasks of individuals with chronic disease?
400
This helps to recall the past and resolve unresolved conflicts.
What is reminiscence?
400
These types of changes can be due to normal changes, disease processes (dementia, delirium, depression, substance abuse) and medication use.
What are neurological changes in aging?
500
Partial-thickness loss of dermis (shallow open ulcer)
What is Stage 2?
500
High blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and cancer
What are the 4 most common diseases in the elderly?
500
According to Erikson, the stage at which most elders are at
What is ego integrity vs. despair?
500
Validating the feeling, not the content.
What is validation therapy?
500
This is not caused by any thing else. It is a disease within itself.
What is Alzheimer's?
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