NURSING 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Intraocular Pressure, Inner Ear
16 Dec 2017
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Experiences age-related changes in vision, hearing, taste, smell and touch sensation. Routine assessment and nursing interventions are benefited for all older adults. Variety of structural changes cause visual acuity to decrease, color discrimination to become less acute, pupil size and constriction ability to decrease, peripheral vision to diminish. Presbyopia : loss of accommodation that occurs as people age and results in the inability to maintain focus on objects close to the eye. Lens of eyes thickens and becomes yellow. Increased risk for glaucoma: group of eye disorders characterized by increased intraocular pressure. Baseline eye assessment should be done early in this stage of life --> monitor normal changes in aging eye and high risk for disease. Follow-up eye appointments be scheduled at least annually. Hearing deficits due to inner ear atrophy or sclerosis of the tympanic membrane. Inner ear undergo a number of changes. Presbycusis: progressive sensorineural hearing loss associated with again.
