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?
These are the activities that family caregivers help older adults with dementia with the most.
What are IADLs (Instrumental Activities of Daily Living)?
These are three normal age-related changes that affect the way medications are processed in the body of an older adult.
What are decreased liver metabolism, renal clearance, and absorption in the gut?
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?
This is the trend in the number of male family caregivers.
What is increasing?
These are unwanted pharmacological effects, ranging from minor effects to death.
What are adverse drug interactions?
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?
This is a poor mental health outcome that family caregivers are at increased risk for.
What is depression?
This identifies potentially inappropriate medications for use in older adults.
What is the Beers Criteria?
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?
This is a role that the nurse can play to support family caregivers.
What is assessing for and addressing daily challenges?
These include lorazepam, diazepam, phenobarbital, cholopromazine, and haloperidol.
What are highly lipid-soluble drugs stored in fatty tissues that can elevate and/or extend drug effects?
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?
This is the second most common condition that caregivers identify as a reason for a family member requiring care.
What is Alzheimer's/Confusion?
These are five factors to consider when starting a new medication in older adults. (Name at least three)
What are: Is it appropriate? Are there potential drug-drug interactions? Are there known drug-disease interactions? Does this duplicate other meds? How will the patient's response be monitored?