As you age...
“Nonsystemic musculoskeletal condition that includes the progressive deterioration of articular cartilage and its underlying bone.”
What is Osteoarthritis?
With age, changes in this body system may result in an increased risk of aspiration.
What is the respiratory system?
This screening tool requires the responder to: identify the week, year, and state; add and subtract via mental math; categorize animals; recall objects; and listen to a short story and answer questions.
What is the Saint Louis University Mental Status examination (SLUMS)?
This intervention strategy includes prioritizing what needs to be done now and what can wait until later, alternating heavy and light tasks, pacing ones activities, taking breaks, and using AE.
What is energy conservation?
This theory was developed by early gerontologists. It views aging as a problematic, inevitable, global decline, in which aging individuals abandon their roles and activities and withdraw from society.
What is Disengagement Theory?
“Systemic autoimmune disease process that exhibits both articular and periarticular impairments that include, but are not limited to, joint pain and stiffness.”
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
With age, changes in this body system results in a decrease in lean body mass, a decrease in estrogen production, a decline in thyroid-stimulating hormone, and changes in pancreatic function.
What is the endocrine system?
This is a summary of a client's occupational history and experiences, patterns of daily living, interests, values, and needs.
What is an occupational profile?
This intervention strategy could include physical, visual, or verbal, or include gestures and/or models/demonstrations.
What is a prompt (or cue)?
This ethical principle includes respecting the client’s privacy with regard to his or her medical condition and treatment and also following state and federal privacy laws and regulations, such as HIPAA.
What is confidentiality?
This is the loss of bone mineral density. Risk factors include age, inactivity, and having a slight build. Women are more likely than men to experience it.
What is osteoporosis?
This condition may result in lifestyle changes that lead to dehydration. It may also cause fear (of embarrassment), decreased social participation, and an increased risk of falls.
What is Urinary Incontinence?
If you were assessing this, you would measure ROM, strength, endurance, cognition, and orientation; you would also identify the values and beliefs.
What are client factors?
This intervention strategy includes using larger joints rather than smaller joints, limiting activities that cause pain, taking breaks/resting, avoiding staying in one position for a prolonged period of time.
What are joint protection techniques/strategies?
Risk factors for this include the following: financial or other family problems; social isolation and dependence; physical, functional, or cognitive deficits in caregivers; and inadequate housing or unsafe conditions in the home.
What is elder abuse (and/or neglect)?
This peaks in your 20s. Its decline may be related to "use it or lose it" or genetics. Women experience a greater loss in this than men. Its decline may contribute to an increased risk of falls.
What is strength (muscle strength)?
This can result in dry mouth, taste alteration, diminished bone health, tissue overgrowth, swelling, inflammation, and/or ulceration.
What is medication side effects?
As part of an evaluation, an OT would consider "features of an individual that are not a part of a health condition or health status" - for example, Mr. Smith is an 87-year-old male. He has an 8th grade education and low SES. What are these examples of?
What is/are personal context?
This intervention strategy includes client education to "don the affected limb first, doff the affected limb last."
What is a hemi-dressing technique (or hemi-technique)?
Signs and symptoms of this may include: a rapid heart rate; sudden change of color around lips; gurgling sounds from the chest when breathing; and/or a fever.
What is aspiration?
The primary risk factors for this are decreased bone strength and/or occurrence of fall-related trauma. Other risk factors include osteoporosis, decreased muscle volume, and decreased neuromuscular responses to physical challenges.
What is a (hip) fracture?
Improving this can improve metabolic control in individuals with diabetes, reduce cardiovascular disease, and in individuals in long-term care settings, prevent respiratory infections and even death.
What is oral hygiene?
This assessment serves as an indicator for what a person does, not what he or she could do. It assesses a person in the following areas: feeding, bathing, grooming, dressing, bowels, bladder, toilet use, transfers, mobility (on level surfaces), and (mobility on) stairs.
What is The Barthel Index?
Intervention strategies for this condition commonly includes the following adaptive equipment: reacher, LH sponge, sock aid, and LH shoehorn.
What is a THR/THA?
This low vision condition is the most common. It occurs most frequently in Caucasian populations. It results in a loss of central vision.
What is age-related macular degeneration (ARMD)?