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    • ]]>     Indicator of the health of the elderly and their quality of life.
    Unit: the need for attention and care needed by those who can not do for themselves the activities of daily living.
    Major causes of dependency.
    • Chronic illness or disabling.
    • cardiovascular diseases (stroke, CHF)
    • Pathologies in the musculoskeletal (arthritis, osteoporosis)
    • Neurological disorders (Alzheimer, dementia)
    • Pathologies that affect the sense organs (cataracts, deafness)

    Geriatric syndrome.
    • Fall
    • Urinary incontinence
    • Immobility
    • Infectious process
    • Delirium
    • Oral diseases
    • Food and nutrition
    • Dementias
    • Depresion.Síndrome restraints.


    Decline in ability to perform activities of daily living impairment or deterioration of motor functions.
    Can be avoided, even during a serious illness.
    -> 65 years 18% problems with mobility without assistance
    -> 75 years 50% difficulty in emerging
    20% confined to home.

    Rating:
    Acute:
    3 days patients spend in bed or chair. 33% of fixed assets are causes of death after three months and 58% a year.
    Etiology of immobilization.
    • Pain and stiffness
    • Cause cardiovascular and pulmonary
    • Neurological causes
    • General weakness
    • Metabolic causes
    • Mental Illness
    • Custom
    • Lack of support (without a walker, cane or burrito)
    • Impaired vision and hearing
    • Instability and fear of falling
    • urinary and fecal incontinence
    • Iatrogenic (drugs, immobilization)
    • Architectural Barriers
    • Disease of the feet.

    Complications.

    • Thrombosis
    • Thromboembolism
    • Pneumonia
    • Dehydration
    • Malnutrition
    • Osteoporosis
    • Hypothermia
    • Confusion
    • Depression
    • Withdrawal and isolation
    • UPP
    • Stiffness and contractures
    • Loss of muscle strength
    • Constipation and implementation
    • Retention and incontinence
    • Instability and Falls

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    1. Factors involved in the immobility of the elderly
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