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Implications of Age-related changes in geriatric patients
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A geriatric patient is elderly with impaired overall functions.no we age, but he or she should be more than a period of 75 years old with the chronic diseases, physically impaired and or cognitive impairment, older people with fraternity may also be affected with the following: recurrent falls and the Gait abnormalities.
According to Olympia, et al., ( 475) ageing as the progressive accumulation of more or less random body and mindset changes has much of the implications. This has limited age to the average life expectancy up to about 85 years, maximum life span to around 122 years, and lowers the ability to cope with internal and external stresses. Moreso, the interindividual variability in the physiological responses increases with age (Jack Jr, et al., 210). Ageing is not only a single entity but also a collective term representing the total sum of the cumulative local effects at the molecular, cellular and tissue level. Ageing is the effect of these underlying changes and not the cause. Although an all‐encompassing definition of ageing is not possible, several characteristics identified. The far most consistent is the time‐related loss of functional units. The mentioned sections are the smaller structures capable of performing the specific physiological activities characteristic of the organ of which they are separate. A further feature is the disruption of some of the regulatory procedure that provides the functional integration of the cells and the other parts.
Therefore, failure to maintain homeostasis under conditions of physiological stress can happen.leading to the loss of functional reserve is associated with a reduction in viability and an increase in vulnerability. Ageing not only solely a progression of functional decline but also creating anatomical and physiological changes which can lead to decompensation of the relevant system when they go beyond a certain extent ( Vos, et al., 5).
Work cited
Jack Jr, Clifford R., et al. “Defining imaging biomarker cut points for brain ageing and Alzheimer’s disease.” Alzheimer’s & Dementia 13.3 (2017): 205-216.
Olympia, Daniel E., et al. “29 Positive Psychology and Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties.” The Oxford handbook of optimistic psychology and disability (2013): 475.
Vos, Stephanie JB, et al. “NIA-AA staging of preclinical Alzheimer disease: discordance and concordance of CSF and imaging biomarkers.” Neurobiology of ageing 44 (2016): 1-8.