Rehabilitation of the elderly
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Rehabilitation of the elderly has several types:
- medical - restoration of lost functions of organs and systems;
- psychological - the restoration of adequate (proportionate) patient response to changes in the external and internal environment;
- social - restoration of the capacity for independent (self-service) and worthy existence of the patient in society;
- labor - the restoration of a person's ability to work in general and professional in particular.
For people of elderly and senile age, the minimal task of rehabilitation is the restoration of the ability to self-service, which makes it possible to feel independent, and the maximum - to restore work capacity.
Rehabilitation of elderly people has several objectives:
- reactivation - increasing the motor and cognitive activity of the patient;
- re-socialization - providing the elderly with equal social opportunities;
- reintegration - the adaptation of the geriatric patient to life in a microsocial environment.
Rehabilitation of elderly people is carried out in the following areas:
- medical - medical care;
- gerontopogichesky care - the decision of the general physiological and psychological problems of the patient;
- social - the provision of social assistance;
- educational - informing society about the features of the aging organism, the opportunities and needs of older people;
- economic - providing people of the "third age" with material prosperity and equal opportunities to participate in the economic life of the society;
- professional - the implementation of opportunities for permanent work capacity.
According to the duration of rehabilitation activities:
- rehabilitation of elderly people in acute conditions (the main character is a doctor);
- rehabilitation of elderly people with subacute conditions (performed by a doctor and a nurse);
- long-term rehabilitation (carried out by medical and social services).
Rehabilitation of the elderly requires the following rules:
- carrying out of rehabilitation actions according to the planned plan (it is necessary to acquaint the patient with it);
- periodic, regular monitoring of the functions of organs and systems (pulse, the number of respiratory movements, blood pressure, general health, etc.);
- support and shape the patient's belief in the success of rehabilitation activities, noting the slightest positive changes in his state of health;
- Do not do for the patient what he can do himself;
- classes should be systematic, activities - comprehensive.
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