KINESIOL 3U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Palliative Care, Hyperlipidemia, Peripheral Neuropathy
6 Apr 2017
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Relationships between physical activity and disease in the elderly. Primary prevention: measures to prevent or avoid development of disease osteoporosis. Secondary prevention: measures to prevent clinical manifestations of disease: ex. Optimizing physical activity and nutritional status in growing years to optimize skeletal mass (getting skeletal mass as high as possible before it begins to decline) preventing or avoiding: ex. Diagnosed with high cholesterol (risk factor for heart attack) any measures to prevent a heart attack are secondary prevention. Tertiary prevention: measures aimed at preventing recurrence of disease in someone already diagnosed: ex. Have already had a heart attack, exercise to prevent another one from happening. Quaternary prevention: measures to optimize residual function and quality of life in individuals for whom more aggressive treatment is unwarranted: focusing optimizing function. End stage cancer = focusing on palliative care rather than still focusing on trying to get rid of cancer.
