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| marketed payment without a source - US has this = health care debt |
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| the challenge is to implement 2 major changes |
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| educational interventions for MDs, and system change from passive to active anticipatory interventional system |
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| pure aging, homeostenosis, geriatrics syndromes, disease in elders usually modified by pure aging effects, pure aging is interpreted as disease, vice versa, medication hazards, multiple pathology, and diseases special in aging |
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| aging of lens of eye = natural like wrinkles |
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| reduced ability to maintain homeostasis; rapid degeneration of "weak link" organs, ex. delirium accompanying pneumonia |
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| interaction of diseases and risk factors with pure aging effects; usually multifactorial. confusion, dizziness, falls, syncope, urinary incontinence, weight or appetite loss |
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| more frequent with less trauma in older patients = theme #4 |
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| diseases special in aging (2) |
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| diastolic CHF, alzheimer's |
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| urinary incontinence could develop from |
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| falling could be the first sign of |
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| confusion could be caused by |
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| risk factors for FALLING and which ones can be intervened upon |
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| history of fall, age>80, cognitive impairment, multiple co-morbidities. intervenable: visual impairment, medications, lower extremity weakness, balance or gait abnormality, ADL impairment, depression, use of assistive device |
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| evidence-based interventions for falls |
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| exercise/physical therapy, modification of home hazards, medication adjustment, vitamin supplementation, visual correction, cardiac pacemaker for syncope-associated falls, physician education |
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| characteristics of age-related changes |
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| survival! variable! but inevitable and irreversible and degenerative/linear. |
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| why does survival probability of pneumonia go down in older patients |
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| cross-linking of collagen in lungs depletes plasticity (lung reserve) |
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| body composition changes in old people |
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| metabolism changes in old people |
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| diabetes = glucose intolerance = insulin resistance |
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| immunity changes in old people |
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| less production of antibodies |
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