ENGINEER 1P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Agnosia, Health Care, Telemedicine
23 Apr 2016
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Even talking down to them, even to try to be nice, takes away their dignity. Patient medical history (pmhx): mi, cva, htn, d2m, thr, depression. Peak in ability to function during the end of the early life and right before the adolescence. With rehab, it takes them just above the disability threshold. But with design, it can take them well above the threshold. When an old person loses their license it is a higher chance of them living in a ltc home. 20-30% of seniors fall each year financial costs: estimated billion/per year. Complex continuing care, soulstream rehab bed exercises the longer people stay in hospitals, the capacity decreases at a sharper rate transfers to ltc homes only when theres a spot open. Try to get them more engaged in their daily living. Makes them have to spend their life in the hospital.
