DIFFERENT FORMS OF ASSISTANCE TO THE ELDERLY

Good care for the elderly are mainly based on interdisciplinary work that must be good coordination between specialized care, health centers, social workers and specialized geriatric care.
The correct use of levels of care and expertise guarantee optimal care for elderly.

Unfortunately, there is a saturation of working both in primary care and specialized care and attention prevents hospitals can be done properly.

A primary care, multi-disciplinary work should involve all professional functions they must perform will be aimed at the promotion of health, prevention activities and early detection and treatment of disabling processes.


The work of the nurse is very important in order to perform a comprehensive health education patient and family. Will be assessed:

• Deficiencies at their home
• Lack of resources
• Hygiene
• Detentions
• Constant monitoring
• Cures
• Sampling
• Apply chest physiotherapy techniques 
• Oxygen therapy
• Urinary catheterization

It is very important for health education aimed at explaining a proper diet, adequate physical exercise, control toxic habits, self-medication, body cleansing, prevention of accidents, etc..

The activities of nursing home hospitalization are practically the same, including health education, hygiene and mobilizations.

The specialized care units which include:

• Aimed at geriatric patient admissions for assessment of their pathologies
• Medium-stay units aimed at functional recovery of medical procedures, surgery or trauma
• Inpatient units intended for chronic or nursing homes whose impaired functional capacity leads them to a zero level of independence.
• Acute Treatment Unit (ATU)

There are also day hospitals that are specialized day care centers in frail patients with physical disability in which rehabilitation once again made ​​his home.


CONCLUSION

Fair enough there are additional measures to elder care, since it involves a number of increasingly large population, and need further assessment exhaustive.

But overall prevention.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tratado de Geriatría para residentes [Internet]. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Geriatría y Gerontología [acceso 22 de Marzo de 2012]. De Fernández M, Solano JJ. Niveles asistenciales en geriatría. Disponible en: http://www.segg.es/download.asp?file=/tratadogeriatria/PDF/S35-05%2006_I.pdf