Biomedical subjects
K H Echevarria
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Layoffs: looking for a silver lining.
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A successful aging project: pooling university and community resources.
1. In successful aging, the effects of aging are minimized by such extrinsic factors as nutrition, exercise, stress management, and social support. 2. Mutual and individual goal setting was encouraged at the outset of the successful aging sessions. The most frequently mentioned goals were learning more about health, staying well, feeling well, and helping others to be well. 3. A nonjudgmental attitude toward previous knowledge or lifestyle was prevalent. By tapping formal and informal community resources to deliver a program of health promotion, the project maximized cooperation within an aging services network.
Geriatric tinnitus: causes, clinical treatment, and prevention.
1. Tinnitus is seldom recorded in the clinical database of the elderly, despite the fact that next to hearing loss, tinnitus is the most commonly reported ear problem by the elderly population. 2. Common problems of the elderly that demand special counseling and teaching skills of the nurse are decreased tolerance to tinnitus due to coexistent complex morbidity, social problems, and losses; worry that the tinnitus is a sign of an impending crisis, such as stroke, brain tumor, or insanity; and boredom with excess time with little to do but to listen to one's tinnitus. 3. Tinnitus in aging is a symptom that is usually due to an identifiable disease, and is rarely of subjective type, high-pitched quality, chronic, irreversible, idiopathic, and bilateral. 4. The common causes and aggravating factors about tinnitus in aging can provide the clues to effective nursing-initiated measures, many of which are simple household activities or personal interactions.
Board and home care. Primary care practice.
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Board and home care. A team approach to foot care.
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Innovative teaching of developmental themes of the elderly and the young.
The authors demonstrate how faculty members creatively designed an undergraduate course in which students learned developmental similarities and differences across the life span. Student-client interaction, involvement in practice, and inquiry strategies are used to enhance teaching and learning. Practice informed theory for students resulting ina meaningful synthesis of content.
Nursing outcome indicator: preventing falls for elderly people.
Falls among elderly people living in the community are costly for all concerned in both monetary terms and quality of life. Faculty and students in a nurse-managed clinic in partnership with elderly residents of a public housing unit were able to reduce the number of falls from 30% to 3%. Falls were reduced through a preventive plan that included assessment of intrinsic and extrinsic factors that cause falling and interventions for these recognized risk factors.