COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY

RIVERSIDE COLLEGE,INC.

GERIATRIC
REHAB
Health and Function: Patient Management Principles
Presented by: Karizza Bhea T. De Vera
 OVERVIEW

• INTRODUCTION
• INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION
• CLINICAL DECISION MAKING
• PATIENT MANAGEMENT MODEL
• STRATEGY FOR DECISION MAKING
 HEALTH,
FUNCTION, AND
Health DISABLEMENT
state of complete physical, psychological, and social well-being, and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
• Optimizing “health” is typically grounded in objective tests and measures
 HEALTH, FUNCTION, AND
DISABLEMENT
Illness
• Internal subjective experience of the individual who is aware
that personal well-being has been jeopardized
• how the individual responds to the stressors on their well-being
 HEALTH, FUNCTION, AND
DISABLEMENT
Successful aging has three core elements:
• absence of disease and disability,
• high cognitive and physical functioning
• active engagement with life.

Optimal aging
• capacity to function across many domains—physical, functional, cognitive,
emotional, social, and spiritual—to one’s satisfaction and in spite of one’s medical
conditions.
 HEALTH CONDITION
• umbrella term for disease, disorder, injury or
trauma.
• also include pregnancy, aging stress,
congenital anomaly or genetic predisposition
 BODY FUNCTIONS

The physiological functions of the body systems,

including psychological functions.
 BODY STRUCTURE

The structural or anatomical parts of the body

such as organs, limbs, and their components
classified according to body systems.
 IMPAIRMENTS

A loss or abnormality in body structure or

physiological function including mental
functions.
 ACTIVITY

The execution of a task or action by an

individual; represents the individual perspective
of functioning.
 ACTIVITY LIMITATION

Difficulties an individual may have in executing

activities.
 PARTICIPATION

A person’s involvement in a life situation;

represents the societal perspective of
functioning.
PARTICIPATION RESTRICTION

Problems an individual may experience in

involvement in life situations
 FUNCTIONING
• Term for body functions, body structures, activities
and participation.

• Positive aspects of the interaction between an individual

(with a health condition) and individual’s contextual
factors (environmental and personal factors.
 DISABILITY
• Term for impairments, activity limitations, and
participation restrictions.

• Negative aspects of the interaction between an

individual (with a health condition) and an individual’s
contextual factors (environmental and personal factors.
 FACTORS

CONTEXTUAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERSONAL

Constitute the complete Refer to all aspect of Relate to the
context of an external or extrinsic world
individual’s life, and in individual such as
that form the context of an
particular the individual’s life. age, gender, social
background against Have an impact on the status, life
which health states are person’s functioning. experience .
classified in ICF.