KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Light Therapy, Bladder Training, Kidney Failure
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Age related changes with the kidneys and bladder. Incontinence: can hurt when you laugh, sneeze, you have no control, can be embarrassing because you"re always wearing a diaper. Intervention can be bladder training like a child. Kidney failure: the kidney"s job is to remove waste products from the blood in your body, you have to have dialysis, which is getting a blood puri cation. You have to go 3 times a week for 4 hours a day to get your blood puri ed. Depression is not natural, not all old people are depressed: older people might not be happy and perky all the time, but that doesn"t mean they"re depressed more than 50% of people in nursing homes are depressed. Depressed people are sad, hopeless, feel a lot of worry. They can"t sleep, lose their appetite, and experience aches and pains reasons for depression among older people: poor health from chronic diseases.