CARE OF THE OLDER ADULTS

• Prepared By:
• ARNELLE L. BALINAO, MAN
• INSTRUCTOR
•Perspective of Aging
GERONTOLOGY

Broad term used This includes

to define the study biopsychosocial
of aging and / or aspects of aging:
the Aged.
UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF GERONTOLOGY ARE SEVERAL
SUBFIELDS.
 a. Geriatrics
UNDER THEe.UMBRELLA
Financial gerontology
OF GERONTOLOGY ARE
SEVERAL SUBFIELDS.

b. Social gerontology f. Gerontology Nursing

c. Geropsychology g. Gerontological
Rehabilitation

d. Geropharmacology
GERIATRICS OR GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING

• Geriatric or gerontological nursing is one of the

fields of nursing that deals with proper care and
hospitalization of aged or geriatric patients.
SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY:

• focuses on the social aspect of growing old

GEROPSYCHOLOGY

• the field within psychology that applies the knowledge and

methods of psychology to understanding and helping older
persons
GEROPHARMACOLOGY:

• Polypharmacy
• - as simply the use of multiple medications,
FINANCIAL GERONTOLOGY

• is a multidisciplinary field of study encompassing both academic

and professional education
GERONTOLOGY NURSES
GERONTOLOGY REHABILITATION

• Achieve optimal level of physical. Mental and psychosocial well-

being of an older adult while providing safe and secure
environment
 DEFINITION OF TERMS:
• Aging: The process of becoming older, a process that is
genetically determined and environmentally modulated.

• Ageism: a bias against older people based solely on their

chronologic age, without consideration of their functional
status
 GERONTOLOGIC/GERIATRIC NURSING:
•the field of nursing that specializes in the nursing
process as it relates to the assessment, nursing
diagnosis, planning, implementation, and
evaluation of older adults in all environments
including acute, intermediate, and skilled care as
well as within the community
 GERIATRICS:
•the study of old age that includes the physiology,
pathology, diagnosis, and management of the
disorders and diseases of older adults
 GERONTOLOGY:
•the combined biologic, psychologic, and sociologic
study of older adults within their environment
•-the scientific study of old age, the process of
aging, and the particular problems of old people.
 TYPES OF AGING:
• Chronological aging – reckoned by the number of
years lived since birth
• Physical aging – growing old physically as a result of the
passage of time
• Functional aging – This reflects our ability to carry out
an independent, self-sufficient life in which we take
care of our own personal needs like self-care.
• Growing older, or chronological aging, is a relentless and
unstoppable process that happens to all humans. For that
reason alone, some bioethicists argue that aging is, in fact, a
natural developmental process for human beings
(Meilaender, 2011). ...
• It is senescence that causes diseases of aging. (deterioration
with age.
• loss of a cell's power of division and growth.)
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