NSG 2113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: World Health Organization, Malnutrition, Integumentary System
21 Nov 2016
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Intro to nursing science lecture 7: healthy aging, diversity. Population 60-64 is growing the most rapidly. By 2020 the number of seniors could exceed the number of children. Development of older adults: main developmental tasks finding ways to maintain quality of life. Older age finds a loss of health, significant others, socialization, income, and independence along with physiological/structural/functional changes: other developmental tasks physical, money, death, self-acceptance, living arrangements, children, etc, variability. Different older adults have different levels of physiological, cognitive, and psychological health levels of functional ability varies as well (ex. Some are very dependent, but others can function very independently. But most do have at least one chronic disease or condition: stereotypes/myths. Ageism our bias against old people affect how we care for older adults. Older adults are ill, disabled, unattractive, old-fashioned, forgetful, confused, rigid, boring, unfriendly, unable to learn, unable to use technology, not interested in sex, like bland food.
