Urinary Incontinence
This is a safety concern with a high risk of injury that is related to urinary incontinence.
What is falling?
These are four defining characteristics of a chronic disease.
What are: it lasts a year or more, requires medical treatment, may limit activities of daily living, and can adversely affect coping?
This common cause of injury occurs more frequently in long term care settings than in the community and account for 40% of all hospital occurrences.
What are falls.
These are the two types of elder mistreatment that are most often detected and prosecuted.
What are financial exploitation and neglect.
This is the most common form of dementia.
What is Alzheimers Disease.
These factors include delirium, infection, atrophic vaginitis or urethritis, pharmacology, psychological (depression), endocrine (diabetes, polyuria), restricted mobility, urinary retention, and fecal constipation.
What are common reversible causes of incontinence?
According to National Council on Aging approximately 92% of Seniors have this.
What is a chronic condition?
These are the leading cause of death from injury.
What are falls.
These may include fear of being moved out of one's home, fear of getting a family member in trouble or fear of retaliation by the abuser.
What are examples of barriers to elder mistreatment disclosure?
These are the four A's of dementia.
What are amnesia, apraxia, aphasia and agnosia.
This occurs in more than 40% of older adults admitted to the hospital and is a common cause of post-void urinary retention.
What is fecal impaction?
This is the approach in which patient's values, preference and needs guide all clinical decisions.
What is patient-centered care?
What are intrinsic factors.
This is a type of skin discoloration, usually purple or blue in color, that results from hemorrhage and is not a sign of blunt trauma. It may result from taking anticoagulants.
What is ecchymosis?
What are staying mentally active, remaining socially involved, staying physically active, and adopting a brain healthy diet.
15-35% is the prevalence of what condition among community dwelling older adults?
What is the prevalence of incontinence among community dwelling older adults?
These are five communication strategies to promote effective chronic disease self-management with older adults.
What are: Be direct and specific. Use positive statements. Limit number of key points and repeat them. Support information with real examples. Use pictures?
Narrowed gait base, increased sway with ambulation, decreased step height, and increased care with gait are all classified as this.
An example of this is: Mrs. Smith, age 85, has no apparent cognitive issues. She has been diagnosed with cancer but tells her physician that she does not want to receive any chemotherapy or other curative treatment. Her adult daughter does nothing to encourage her to seek treatment.
What is an example of a situation that should not be considered elder abuse?
What is delirium.
This is an involuntary release of less than 50ml of urine with activities that increase intraabdominal pressure (lifting, sneezing).
What is stress incontinence?
This is Healthy People 2020's definition of Health Literacy.
What is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions?
Shopping, meal prep, housework, taking medications, and use of transportation are all considered this and are assessed to identify independence and ability to interact with one's environment.
What are Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs).
This is where most elder abuse occurs.
What is the patient's home?
Anhedonia, anxiety, irritability, lack of motivation, agitation, delusions, hallucinations are symptoms of this condition in older adults with Alzheimer's disease.
What is depression.