Essays on Activities Of Daily Living

Post-Stroke Depression

Stroke is amongst the leading causes of disability and mortality worldwide (Mitchell, 2016). In the United States (US) alone, an estimated 750 000 individuals are affected by new or recurrent stroke annually. Survivors of stroke frequently experience some neurological-linked disability like hemiparesis and aphasia that lead to a loss of function. An estimated 50% of stroke survivors additionally experience long-term disability like partial paralysis while 25-50% of stroke patients require help in performing activities of daily living (Byun, 2012). Post-stroke disability is linked to additional symptoms such as depression, fatigue, and sleep disturbances. These symptoms have been correlated with ...

Healthcare has been experiencing tremendous transformations in the recent past, and this can be attributed to the changing health needs of the people. To adapt to these changes, the models of care delivery, care services, and even the personnel, have changed as well. Also, there is an increasing need to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care, as cultural diversity continues to pose a challenge to the delivery of holistic care. One approach of delivering care services is by focusing on a family, identifying the specific health needs of such families, and developing plans of treatment that are focused on ...

Physical Therapy following Stroke

The purpose of this paper is to review a study by Kim, Kim, and Kim1 on the topic of physical therapy following cerebrovascular accident (stroke). The paper will summarize the study, comment on the relevance of the article to the field of physical therapy, and the importance of the study to other stakeholders. Finally, the paper will add recommendations for future research based on the results of the study. 1. Summary of the study The aim of the study was to determine if there was a relationship between stroke survivors’ quality of life and their ability to accomplish daily ...

This is a case of a 60 year old elderly with complaints of persistent coughing for at least the past three months with pulmonary secretions. The patient’s name is A.D. (initials used for confidentiality purposes). She lives with her family and it was her daughter, D.F., who brought her to the hospital for medical consult. The doctors from the hospital conducted a comprehensive physical examination and found out what the main problems are; they also laid out an initial plan of action and the parties agreed with a course of action. I encountered numerous challenges when I got ...

Across most of the globe, the percentage of elderly persons has increased radically. The elderly frequently have outlived a spouse, particularly women, and find themselves living alone on a pensioner’s income. This population is particularly at risk for malnutrition. This paper will discuss some of the sources of nutritional risk, how they can be assessed, interventions available to a gerontological nurse practitioner, and some community resources. 1. Causes of malnutrition among the elderly As individuals age, physiological changes in several systems take place that can impact nutrition, specifically perceptual, renal, gastrointestinal systems (Guigoz, Vellas, & Garry, 1996). Also, chronic ...

Pathophysiology

One of the most important parts of achieving the goal of being able to meet the patient’s entire healthcare (i.e. nursing) needs is to ensure that the underlying disease’s pathophysiology is well understood by all the stakeholder groups. These groups, in this case, would include the medical and healthcare practitioners, patients, and their respective family members. It would be a lot easier to instruct a patient to have a patient undergo a prescribed healthcare routine once he understands the nature of his condition, why each procedure is being done, and how they collectively contribute to the end-goal ...

Typically, when information is written by scholars, the information is transferred to the end users of the information. The end users, in this case, are the people seeking to find solutions to their research problems from the sources while the scholars are the authors of the sources. It is, therefore, prudent for scholars to take a lot of caution in their writing. They need to keep it simple and have detailed explanations with numerous examples to enable the readers or the end users of their work to have a better understanding of their work. Moreover, having a better understanding ...

Introduction

People in the developed countries are living longer with advances in medical science. The life expectancy, today, is much longer than it was in the previous generations. With the baby boomer generation now reaching the age of 65 years and people living longer as compared to the olden days, the population worldwide of those aged over 65 years is increasing day by day or is set to increase substantially in the coming decades ahead. With an increased life expectancy, there is also a rise in chronic diseases. Worldwide, over 22 million people die from chronic diseases every year (Free 2). ...

Presentation: 52 year old male presents with complaint of wet cough and intermittent fevers for one week. Symptoms have progressively worsened with onset of back pain over the last two days. Previous Medical History: No health insurance and has not seen provider for five years. History of Hypertension, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Diabetes Mellitus-2 controlled with diet.

Allergies: Penicillin and Erthyromycin History of Present Illness: Onset/duration: one week. Pattern: cough worse at night. Associated Symptoms: fever and back pain worsens with coughing. Relieving factors: sitting up and drinking fluids. Aggravating factors: smoking and lying down. Effect ...

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Brief History of Case Study:

Presenting Illness: Ms E.H. is an 83 year old female with a chronic history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus came in for routine check-up. History of Presenting Illness: The 83 year old female patient was in usual state of health with a prolong history of hypertension that was adequately managed on diuretic therapy. She has been given and tried various other medications but for some reasons, her blood pressure is not very well controlled. Since past few days, she has started complaining of polyuria and polyphagia. She has experienced decreased vision for the last couple of months. ...

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The population of the United States has reached the point where the Baby Boomers are becoming elderly. With advanced age comes the problem of maintenance. At the end of World War II in 1945 there was an explosion of births leading to the Baby Boomers. As the population of the United States ages the number of individuals who will be considered elderly will increase tremendously from this initial wave of the Baby Boomers. The documentary presented by Frontline titled “Life and Death in Assisted Living Facilities” addresses the problems faced by this expanding population group. In a series of interviews ...

A Report

Introduction Care homes for the elderly people, who cannot take care of their own, have always had a significant role in provisions of health care in any society. This is the reason why the most suitable use and funding of health care in care homes has been a crucial subject of key health policy initiatives in the developed as well as developing societies over many years. Rejuvenation Personal Care Home is a facility that provides care to the older people who are unable to take care of themselves. There are several projects going on under this agency which deal with several ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Dementia is among the most common universal age-related disease where an individual gets to experience progressive and irreversible cognitive decline. The aspect of genetics greatly influences the age-related disease of dementia. Genetics may influence the probability of one suffering from dementia because they may be having the genetic market linked to Alzheimer's disease. This is also linked to the experience that comes with seeing a family member suffering from the same condition (Belsky, 2010). The three principles of age-related disease development state that developing a chronic disease is classified as normal aging only at its extreme, will an individual finds ...

Introduction

A sustainable community is one that is ecologically, economically and socially healthy and buoyant. Such a community strives to meet its challenges through integrated solutions rather than through patchy approaches that will probably meet one of these goals at the expense of the rest as this will only deteriorate the quality of life (ISC, 2013). Sustainable development is a concept that has just emerged. My interest lies solely on sustainable community and how employment fits into it taking Thornbury a town in Bristol as a case in example. My interest in this topic was spurred by the fact that world population is rapidly ...

The family I have interviewed is composed of 4 members: a mother and her three children. Violy, the mother, is 53 years old, a widow and has no occupation. Groban, the eldest, is 26 years old, male, single, has a Master’s degree in Education and has been a university instructor and researcher for four years. Lambert, the second child, is 20 years old, male, single and a senior Fine Arts student. Carrie, the youngest child, is 17 years old, single and sophomore student majoring in Physics. The family lives in a 2-storey residence with a 240 square meter floor area. The family has an average ...

Introduction

Regular exercise is known to be a therapeutic lifestyle factor. It is not a drug, but it possesses many traits of a powerful pharmacologic agent. Routinely performing physical activity (PA) stimulates many beneficial physiologic changes in the body (O’Keefe, 2012). Age is associated with increases in body weight, body fat, and abdominal fat. Besides as age advances, many people tend to spend time in sedentary activities. Fifty-five to sixty years is the age when people retire from their services; and this sets a sedentary lifestyle for most. Sedentary lifestyle, as is widely known, is associated with obesity, diabetes, cancer, and/or cardiovascular diseases ( ...

In general terms, environmental press refers to the various demands that both social and physical environments make on an individual to adapt, respond or change. The intensity of these demands varies and so does their influence on the process of optimal aging. Studies have shown that environmental press and optimal aging are not mutually exclusive as there is a heavy dependency between the two. Since environmental change is an inevitable feature, old people must devise effective means and ways of dealing with environmental press issues if they are to achieve optimal aging. In this particular case study, Julio, a Brazilian who ...

Nursing Older People: Dementia

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) defines dementia as (1) a syndrome that is caused by a chronic or progressive disease of the brain, that (2) causes multiple disturbances of higher cortical functions, and (3) is characterized by impairment in memory without impairment in consciousness. Dementia affects all areas of the brain and can occur at any age but is more common in people over 65 years of age, affecting 20% of those aged over 80 (Gulland, 2012). A clinical diagnosis of dementia is made when a patient develops cognitive impairment severe enough to ...

Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior

According to American Association of Mental Retardation, intelligence is the general mental capability (2002). Mental capability is the ability of an individual to plan, solve problems, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience. From a teacher of students with intellectual disability (MR) perspective, intelligence is the ability to figure out things by pulling together reasoning, experience, and observation (Dage, 2010). Normally, intelligence is measured using Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Standardized tests, prepared by professionals, are used to measure IQ. An IQ score of 70 or below indicates present of intellectual disability in an individual. Intelligence cannot be taught in ...

Learning Plan for Adult Patients with Stroke

Adults suffering from stroke or those surviving after a stroke are left with serious brain damages that leave them with weaknesses on certain body parts, which impair movement, talking, or thinking. As such, there is a reduced blood flow to the brain normally caused by blocked blood vessels or the blood vessels become too narrow to allow blood vessels to flow or at times the blood vessels burst making blood to cause damage to the brain through leakage. In turn, the brain cells in the affected areas die because of limited oxygen supply. Strokes are common in older people especially those ...