Functional Abilities
This group of basic physical activities are measured to determine ability to perform basic self-care needs.
What are activities of daily living (ADLs)?
When an older adult moves in with a child's family, the ability to adapt and cope with an additional household member varies greatly from situation to situation.
What are family dynamics (or household dynamics)?
Many older adults live with pain believing this common misconception about aging.
What is the belief that pain is a normal part of growing old?
Western Europe and the United States are characteristic of these societies, producing a separated or independent sense of self.
What are individualist societies?
Older adults with this common infection may present with confusion, dizziness, anorexia, or fatigue.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
This type of daily living activity includes complex skills like managing money, grocery shopping, cooking, and taking medication, which are essential for community living.
What are instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)?
When parents lose the ability to function independently and become dependent on their children, this type of tension is likely to occur.
What is role conflict (or altered family relationships)?
This affects more than greater than 80% of nursing home residents lasting more than 3 months and may last for years.
What is chronic pain?
Some teach that it is acceptable to express pain in these demonstrative ways.
What are crying, moaning, and yelling?
These conditions—including diabetes, cancer, and kidney disease—are particularly common in older adults and may alter the body's response to infection.
What are comorbidities?
This physical activity has been proven to reduce falls and maintain functional independence in older adults.
What is exercise?
These physical warning signs include bruising, lacerations, wounds in various stages of healing, unexplained and delay in seeking medical treatment.
What are signs of physical abuse?
This internationally-used, five-item observation tool scores from 0 to 10 to indicate pain severity in patients with dementia.
What is the PAINAD (Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia) scale?
Studies show that these interpreters make even more mistakes than professional interpreters, which can be potentially dangerous.
Who are family members and friends of the patient?
This type of pneumonia is an inflammatory process caused by inhalation of foreign substances in older adults with a poor gag reflex, decreased mental status, or those who must remain supine.
What is aspiration pneumonia?
This age-related change leads older adults to need frequent pauses during activity or a slower pace while performing tasks.
What is decreased stamina?
Includes behaviors such as isolating, ignoring, shouting, voicing threats, or communicating displeasure through sighing, head shaking, or door slamming.
What is emotional abuse (or psychological abuse)?
These three pain syndromes are more prevalent in the older population than in younger adults.
What are postherpetic neuralgia, poststroke pain, and diabetic neuropathy?
In low- and middle-income countries, as well as in Native American and ethnic minority communities within the United States, these practitioners are often consulted in response to illnesses believed to be caused by spiritual distress.
Who are faith healers or traditional healers?
This age-related immune system dysregulation in older adults may cause body temperature to not become significantly elevated until infection is severe.
What is immunosenescence?
This type of comprehensive, interprofessional assessment should be performed for all individuals showing observed functional, social, or cognition changes
What is a functional assessment (or functional ability assessment)?
When caregivers fail to provide for the needs of older persons under their care includes failure to meet hygiene, safety, or medical care needs.
What is neglect?
Many older adults are reluctant or unable to report their pain because of one of these two factors, contributing to their high risk for undertreatment.
What are illness and cognitive impairment?
This approach to care means conveying acceptance of the patient's health beliefs while sharing information, encouraging self-efficacy, and strengthening the patient's coping resources.
What is culturally competent care?
Older adults are more likely to experience these complications, which include functional impairments, fatigue, decreased muscle strength, poor tissue healing, pressure injuries, and this increased susceptibility to pathogens.
What is malnourished?