"assistance to the elderly. Hospital , land, home. " A book by Mary Mongardi.
Below is an abstract of the book.
The elderly population has increased steadily over the years, as a result of profound demographic changes, particularly the decline in fertility and mortality reduction. Longer life but does not always correspond to an actual improvement of its quality with increasing age increases the long-term care, which is compounded by the presence of pluripatologie and the risk of social isolation. Against this socio-health persists, however, that the idea that elderly care is low complexity, while it did not differ on the level of skills required, from, for example, a cardiac patient. Assisting an elderly person requires knowledge and professional skills and high level organizational and care pathways are well defined and articulated in various areas of care. The pluripatologie, some serious, and cognitive deficits of the elderly, the relationship with the caregiver, sometimes also elderly, work in multi-professional team require operators involved an ongoing professional training and expertise.
This work wants to represent an attempt to respond to issues raised by the European and national papers about the phenomenon of the aging population and a contribution to the need for training of professionals involved in assisting the elderly, as well as offer insights to administrators. The knowledge, skills and tools that are widely represented in this work, have to find organizational models adapted to the needs and welfare of care is designed to promote an organizational climate that allows for profitable collaboration of all stakeholders.
The broad and comprehensive discussion of the topics and the important collaboration with experts from various health components make the text very enjoyable and useful for training to Bachelor of Health Professions, for more specific courses to address geriatric specialist in the field and for those who wish to have an overall view the peculiarities of care and assistance to the elderly. The work is divided into three parts, the first on broader issues, such as epidemiology ol'invecchiamento biological or even the role of new technologies. The second part, as is clear from the title, "The old man at the center of care: models, tools and setting of care" to learn all-round assistance to the elderly, a patient-centered perspective, according to the latest trends that move the focus from the biomedical model to the bio-psycho-social. The third part deals with aspects of geriatric medicine, treating the most common health problems of the elderly and offering, in addition to the clinical description, an interesting approach to assistance, but based on the diagnosis Carpenito offering connections with other theories of nursing and differentiating possible actions depending on the Settino care with an effort by the author and all who have helped this project to revise and adapt to our reality often results and proposed actions in context rather different from ours.
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