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The issue of nursing care about patients with geriatric fragility.
ŠINDELÁŘOVÁ, Renata
Bachelor thesis titled The issue of nursing care about patients with geriatric fragility is a theoretical work, that tries to catch and describe the most information about geriatric frailty and specifics of nursing care for geriatric patients, who are withering away. Geriatric frailty has significant influence on quality of seniors life who currently live longer. Because the population is getting older and number of geriatric patients is increasing and it will be stil in the future, the geriatrics and the gerontology began to focus on geritraic frailty in their research. The geriatric frailty is called "The Holy Grail" of this medicine that tries first to maintain the longest possible psychical and physical senior activity and to turn away institutionalization of geriatric patient mainly by appropriate interventions in the provision of comprehensive nursing care. The aim of great effort in this work was to map and find out all details not only about geriatric frailty, but also about areas with influence on the emergence and development of the geriatric frailty and also on quality of senior life. Geriatric frailty does not have set definition yet and it is not now known if it is a syndrome, a symptome or a medical diagnosis. Involution, that goes along and has significant influence on men's life, causes natural biological aging process of organism, which is manifested by decrease or loss of functional human reserves. If these reserves are also influenced by inner factors for example multimorbidity or undesirable effects of medicaments or external factors, where we put malnutrition, sarcopenia, cognitive deficit, inactivity, instability but also loneliness, excessive load, inappropriate housing and insufficient financial income, than the "spiral of deteriorating" is developing and heading towards disability, immobility and danger of senior life. It is necessary to add that senior with geriatric frailty may not be always ill but he wither away. So effort of my thesis is to bring meaning and impact of "geriatric frailty" and "spiral of deteriorating" in the seniors life, that are not in the awareness of medical staff who provide nursing care to seniors (Kalvach, 2008). Geriatric frailty is getting worse by its progressivity and causes emergence of other syndromes, of which the most serious are immobilization syndrome and terminal geriatric deterioration followed by death. We need the presence of three basic characteristic of five to diagnose geriatric frailty in the eldery. It is malnutrition, sarcopenia, self-reported exhaustion, reduced level of mobility and weakness. As already said geriatric frailty is now the main theme of geriatric medicine, gerontologists and geriatrists, and because it can meaningfully contribute to providing of nursing care with propriate interventions, I tried in my thesis to determine specifics of nursing care focusing on areas, which have significant influence on emergence and development of geriatric frailty. It is primarily nutrition, rehabilitation nursing and motivation of frailty seniors, but also decubitus, falls and injuries of patients, inappropriate communication with elements of ageism or sleep disturbances can affect the emergence of frailty. The result from acquired information is that the main goals of nursing care for patients with geriatric frailty are to make eat, get to go and motivate patient. Effort this thesis is not to disparage present nursing care for geriatric patients, but to explain and give information about the necessity of greater focus of nursing care on risks mentioned above. Nursing care will have to make certain changes, as well as the geriatric medicine is adapting to the population aging and geriatric frailty. If this bachelor thesis will enrich awareness of nurses and other members of multidisciplinary team with problem of geriatric frailty, specifics of nursing care of patients with geriatric frailty, attitude and motivation of these risk patients, then the.
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