GERIATRIC HEALTH EDUCACTION

The most common diseases are:

  - Hypertension.

  - Ischemic stroke.

  - Cardiac failure.

  - Diabetes.

  - Dementia.

  - Depression.

RISK FACTORS

• Organics: hypertension, malnutrition, incontinence and sensorial difficulties.
• Environmental: inactivity, barriers…
• Relationships: lonesomeness and insomnia.

All of them can be associated to other diseases or trigger some others.

GERIATRIC PREVENTION OBJECTIVES

  - Decreased the mortality.

  - Maintain the functional independence.

  - Increased the hope of active life.

  - Improve the quality of the life.

Provide attention to the old persons and their surroundings are our labor like nurses. Inside of the care processes are:

• Reinforcement: the old person is independent and the carer only say him/her some action she/he have to do.
• Support: the carer gives to the old persons some advices and guides them to execute some actions. 
• Aid: the carer contributes in some activities because the old person has some physical and mental  problems.
• Substitution: the old person present incapacity to do all the activities, so the carer does the total action.

HEALTH PROMOTION 

1. Blood pressure: once a week. Prevention: hypertension.
2. Control of lipids: screening in adults without symptoms (more than 35 years in men and more than 45 years in women). Prevention: dislipemia.
3. Electrocardiogram: once per year in older than 75 years. Prevention: arrhythmia and fibrillation with anticoagulant and other medications.
4. Glycaemia: once a year. Prevent: diabetes II. 
5. Test of mental state: once a year. Prevent: cognitive deterioration.
6. Blood hide in feces. Prevent: colon cancer. 
7. Mammogram: each 1 o 2 years. Prevent: breast cancer.
8. Rectal touch: to prevent prostate cancer.

We have to insist in this health promotion to prevent some diseases. Our objective with this is avoid diagnose the disease when the incidence is elevated. If we catch the symptoms quickly the consequences will be less importants.