GERIATRIC RESOURCES. LEVELS OF CARE

Introduction:

For proper health care, a need for adequate coordination of the different stakeholders involved.

-        Primary care

-        General Hospital

-        Geriatrics unit

Primary care:

Develops activities of health promotion and preventive, or rehabilitative. It should work with other professionals integrated.

Function:

-        health promotion

-        health state valuation

-        preventive activities

-        early detection and assistance, especially potentially disabling process.

-        tracking task

-        palliatives care

Health education about the patient (healthy, sick and fragile):

1.      Nursing care realization

2.      identification of signs and symptoms

3.      meet the needs

4.      achieve less dependence on environment

5.      address deficiencies valuation

Health education:

-        food and nutrition

-        general body grooming

-        specific hygienic measures

-        exercise age-appropriate physical

-        toxic habits

-        self-medication

-        prevention of accidents and falls

-        skin protection

-        Cornish pathologies

General hospital:

Entry by an ailment. hospitalization units at home, dependent the hospital and have the task of continuing hospital care in the community

Nursing care:

-        nursing care

-        making constant

-        cures

-        sampling

-        hygiene / demonstrations

-        respiratory physiotherapy

-        oxygen

-        catheterization, nasogastric

-        injectable

Specialized care

Geriatric services are interdisciplinary units to serve geriatric patients, in addition to providing support to primary care and play activities of teaching.

Acute geriatric unit is intended to income for valuation comprehensive geriatric patients or managing their acute or chronic pathologies.

The unit for chronic patients or nursing homes is destined to chronic impairment of functional capacity, and can not be kept at home by the care they need and means to deliver them.

Day centres interdisciplinary attention to fragile or geriatric patients, usually with physical disability, to receive comprehensive care and return home.

Personal reflection:

For proper health care is important to proper coordination.

Through teamwork, we can achieve strategies to address the problem in the best way and create different responses.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Treaty of geriatrics. Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology. http://www.imsersomayores.csic.es/documentos/documentos/segg-tratado-01.pdf.