GRNT 3000E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bariatric Surgery, Polydipsia, Hyperglycemia

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Gerontology
• Course: GRNT 3000E
• Professor: Emerson

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Health- multiple definitions: who: complete mental, social & physical well-being, clinical, functional, high-level wellness or well-being. Perception may differ from reality: predictor of mortality. Assessing functional health: activities of daily living, eating, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, getting in and out of bed, walking. Instrumental activities of daily living: home management, managing money, meal preparation, making a phone call, grocery shopping. Chronic disease: an impairment or deviation from normal that has one or more of the following characteristics, permanent, leaves residual disability, acute, one cause, shorter duration, heart attack, chronic, gradual beginning, many causes, cure rare, arthritis, diabetes, cancer. Factors influencing onset and course of chronic conditions: age, gender, ethnicity. Health promotion: combo of health education and related organizational, political and economic changes ai(cid:373)ed at e(cid:374)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol o(cid:448)er a(cid:374)d a(cid:271)ility, primary prevention- prevent, secondary- screening, tertiary- rehabilitation, pain control.