palliation in the care of the elderly

... Juha Nevalainen ACADEMIC DISSERTATION To be publicly discussed with the assent of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Helsinki, in the main auditorium of the Institute of Dentistry, ... recall the earlier events in life This must be kept in mind in the interpretation of interview data 9.2 Loss of natural teeth In Finland, a clear increase in the number of ... Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland and Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Finland PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY Martti...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... HEALTH CARE MAINTENANCE IN THE ELDERLY GOALS: 1)To improve quality of life. 2) To delay or prevent common conditions of aging 3) To maintain function Objectives: 1)To give the learner ... health decisions help, are they an official DPOAHC?, 10 HEALTH CARE MAINTENANCE IN THE ELDERLY GOALS: To improve quality of life, delay or prevent common conditions, maintain function Preventative ... 13.Grundy SM, Cleeman JI, Rifkind BM, Kuller LH Cholesterol lowering in the elderly population: Coordinating committee of the National Cholesterol Education Program Arch Intern Med 1999;159:1670-8...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... Undernutrition in the elderly or points The Committee considered a score of for the randomisation quality indicator to be a first requirement in the selection The Committee then determined the sum of the ... mortality and on the occurrence of complications are listed in Table A20 Mortality was an outcome measure in only some of the RCTs; these data are shown in bold in the table Of the RCTs in which mortality ... van begin tot eind (Health Nutrition, from beginning to end), which the Government sent to the House of Representatives in July 2008 A lot is being done in hospitals, care facilities and in primary...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... illness Evaluation of Function  Functional assessment  Activities of daily living  Feeding, Bathing, Dressing, Transferring, Toileting  Instrumental activities of daily living  Finances, Telephone, ... of the Chains of the Mad at the Salpêtriére Tony Robert-Fleury (1838–1911) 1876 painting Resources American Association of Geriatric Psychiatrist www.aagpgpa.org... Outline findings ... groups and networks Caregivers need care Caregivers are often older and frail Need to care for health of caregiver Care can be sad, depressing and overwhelming Caregivers may blame themselves Seek...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... that the main reason limiting the participation of elderly subjects in physical activity was their lack of interest in physical activity In view of these two difficulties, together with the high ... Increased fall risk in elderly individuals According to the World Health Organization, a fall is defined as the action of finding oneself involuntarily on the ground The prevalence of falls in ... However, application of this kind of intervention encounters two main problems The first is the need for a network approach and the second is the poor compliance of elderly people in the proposed physical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... considered as the mean of the frac- tion of patterns of length m that resemble the pattern of the same length that begins at index i. ApEn is computed by using the following equation: In our study, ... differed only in the sequential ordering of MFC series. Then the mean of the surrogate ApEn values were then calculated for the 10 surrogate data sets and compared to the ApEn of the original data ... randomness in the MFC signals. Higher ApEn values displayed in the falls-risk group might be an indication of randomness in the walking pattern of falls- risk elderly. On the other hand for healthy elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... issues, and the expectations of healthcare professionals and managers with an eye to determining the defining features of the intervention While improving and reorganizing elderly care in modern ... determine the defining features of the intervention This paper proposes an innovative strategy for developing interventions that take into account the context of care It highlights the usefulness of ... developing an intervention in the context of elderly care, both in terms of the population (frail elderly with complex medical conditions) as well as in terms of the reorganization of care (not...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... regulated in skin. Again, this novel finding may be important in light of the role of arginase in modulating the balance between inflammation and matrix deposition during healing, and in the progression ... increase lifespan by up to 20%, and that the insulin growth factor/insulin pathway influences the rate of aging [26,27]. That regulation by estro- gen at the level of the gene appears to be the ... healing is unknown. Here at the level of gene expres- sion, we provide novel insight into the relative contribution of hormones and intrinsic aging, including gerontogenes, to delayed wound healing....

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... physical status of or Therefore, in present study, there were low severity in both groups In the present study, we used sevoflurane, but not propofol, to maintain the general anesthesia in elderly patients ... 0.40; Table 2) The highest HOMA-IR in the 0G group was 4.0, and that in the LG group was 4.2 Therefore, in the present study, insulin resistance were increased in both groups In the present study, ... anesthesiologist evaluating the date were blinded to group assignment Endpoints The primary endpoint in the present study was the concentration of FFA Secondary endpoints included the concentration of ketone...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2022, 00:38

... images, training sexual care by psychologists, interesting mothers in learning skills, increasing their self-confidence, providing Whatsapp groups for exchanging information, and sending educational ... impact of the designed training program One of the limitations of this study was the self-reporting answers of participants The other limitation was lack of appropriate cooperation of mothers ... discuss sexual problems with their kids [25] Therefore, increasing mothers’ ability in the sexual care of children and recognizing their weak points are essential One of the most important health...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2022, 03:16

... Supplementary Table S5) The incidence rate of the composite outcome in the severe decline group using three measurements of eGFR was higher than the results of two measurements of eGFR before the index date ... baseline and a lower rate of severe proteinuria Progressive Influence of eGFR Change on the Cognition of the Elderly Participants.  The median follow-up of this study was 5.4 years During the ... consider the direct neuronal injury caused by uremic toxin1, particularly in the elderly Longitudinal studies are thus warranted to further evaluate the role of renal function decline in elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:14

... improvement in the health of the elderly, thus extending the period of physical autonomy, and retarding the onset of the effects of aging The fact that the majority of elderly ... in falling These include effects of aging, disease, the behavior of the person in certain high-risk situations, the person’s surroundings and solitude More so than any one of these ... is intended for all those who are involved in the care of the elderly and is an invitation to all health and sociomedical actors to join forces for the well-being of the elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... in? ??uenza. Description of the intervention Vaccines have been the main global weapon to minimise the im- pact of in? ??uenza in the elderly for the last four decades. In the year 2000, 40 out of 51 high-income ... performance. Of the two existing systematic reviews looking at the effects of in? ??uenza vaccines in the elderly, one is now over a decade old and its conclu- sions may be affected by the lack of inclusion ... population. The ques- tion of whe ther these vaccines are ef fective in specific at risk pop- ulations is the topic of other reviews. Types of interventions 1. Vaccination with any in? ??uenza vaccine given independently,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... planning in distributing the numbers properly, or whether the patient perseverates or forgets the task and continues numbering past 12 • Ask the patient to place hands on the clock showing the time ... presenting feature of dementia Presence of apraxia (impairment of performing programmed motor tasks): Examples: playing an instrument, tying shoelaces or a tie, sewing or knitting Presence of delusions: ... (NPH) Urinary incontinence: If urinary and gait problems occur early in the course of cognitive impairment, consider NPH Impaired instrumental activities of daily living: A prerequisite for the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... honeycombing involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3honeycombing involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- honeycombing involving 50–75% of the lobe, 5- honeycombing involving > 75% of the lobe for interstitial ... patients attending the outpatient clinic of the Division of Rheumatology of the Catholic University (Rome, Italy) in the last ten years were included in the study Age (mean ± sd) of the SSc patients ... scale of 0– in the three lobes of both lungs as follows: 0- no alveolar disease, 1- ground glass involving < 5% of the lobe, 2ground glass involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3- ground glass involving...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... source of commensal bacteria for infants’ GIT, contains up to 109 microbes/L in a healthy mother (Moughan et al., 1992) The predominance of beneficial bacteria in the intestinal microbiota of breastfed ... duration of lactation, but also during infant’s gestation, and with genetic makeup of the mother (McVeagh and Miller, 1997) Amount of HMOs is the highest in the newborn period, rising during the first ... able to stop the binding of E.coli enterotoxin to the cells (Kunz and Rudloff, 1993) Sialylated oligosaccharides prevent the binding of E.coli strains associated with neonatal meningitis and sepsis...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 16:28

... to start the chain • many of the neutrons produced in fission are either ejected from the uranium before they hit another U-235 or are absorbed by the surrounding U-238 • minimum amount of fissionable ... to give off a flash of light when they strike the chemical A scintillation counter is able to count the number of flashes per minute 37 Natural Radioactivity • there are small amounts of radioactive ... Fission Chain Reaction • a chain reaction occurs when a reactant in the process is also a product of the process in the fission process it is the neutrons so you only need a small amount of neutrons...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2013, 01:12

... the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino” ”for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons ... shown later, originate in symmetries of the underlying Hamiltonian, or rather the underlying physics angular momentum One of the key invariances of the laws of physics is rotational invariance, i.e., ... the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current” ”for the discovery of violations of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 17:39

... no determinant appears in the integral The matrix ρ in the exponent results from applying the permutation P to the coordinates on the right-hand side and then expressing these coordinates by ... systems A further limitation lies in the expansion of the scattering wave function in the interaction region in terms of Gaussian functions Since the Gaussians are all centered at the origin, they will ... into account (neglecting the symmetry of entrance and exit channel) On the other side the number of terms in the antisymmetriser grows rapidly with the increasing number of particles and furthermore...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... and for the fever index of pyrogen test in rabbits As shown in Table 2, neither Wort nor HIMO affected the production of IL-1b or IL-6 in the SP The induction of the febrile response in rabbits ... decreased the level of p47phox in the membrane, but also increased the level of p47phox in the cytoplasm The use of apocynin alone did not affect the translocation of p47phox, production of ROS, ... continuously for 12 after injecting mL of 10 lm lucigenin (Sigma Chemical Co.) in HBSS into the stainless cell of the system The area under the curve was calculated to obtain total chemiluminescence...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 00:20