Palliative Care and Aging Quiz

The goals of palliative care are:-

• Maximize the quality of life

• Openly discuss care with patient and family

• Activity can be confirmed and measured objectively

• Minimize the quality of life

The role of hospital palliative care team:-

• Support all staff to deliver quality palliative care to patients.

• Un educate to patients, carers and colleagues.

• Emphasizes on primitive services

• Not advanced the practice of palliative care with research

…………..research updating of knowledge and evidence based practice role:-

• Leadership

• Caregiver

• Occupational therapist

• Specialist palliative care nurses

The impact of aging on the kidney………

• Decrease number of Nephrons

• Increase elasticity of kidney blood vessels

• Increase of glomeruli filtration

• Increase in muscle cell volume

Changes in gastro intestinal tract of elderly people includes…

• Sarcopenia

• Pyorrhea.

• Climacteric.

• Increasing empty time.

Integumentary system changes of elderly people include:

• Thicken nails.

• Increased skin elasticity

• Increased melanocytes

• Increased hair pigmentation

Massage of the feet to activate points on the feet that correspond to other body parts or systems.

• Biofeedback

• Reflexology

• Visualization

• Acupuncture

Sarcopenia occurs with age that means:

• ↓ muscle mass & ↑ contractile force

• ↑ muscle mass & ↑contractile force

• ↑muscle mass & ↓ contractile force

• ↓ muscle mass & ↓ contractile force

Negative attitude from community population against old age called

• Aging

• Ageism

• Geriatric

• Gernatology

Changes in nervous System include

• Decreasing sensory receptors for temperature

• Increasing sensory receptors for pain.

• Decreasing sensory receptors for pain.

• Increasing atrophy of sensory receptors for pain