Module 6

Question 1

key considerations for healthy ageing

Answer 1

1. human rights
2. gender equality
3. equality and non discrimination
4. equity
5. intergenerational solidarity

Question 2

what are the main problems related to pathology

Answer 2

geriatric
* immobility
* instability
* incontience
* impaired cognition

Question 3

how is burden of disease measured

Answer 3

• measured using the summary measure DALY
• 1 DALY is 1 year of healthy life lost due to ilness and/or death

Question 4

markers of frailty

Answer 4

1. inability to perform 1 or more basic activities of daily living
2. a stroke
3. depression
4. dementia
5. hisotry of falls
6. malnutrition
7. incontience
8. difficulty walking

Question 5

complications of sacropenia

Answer 5

• cachexia - loss of both muscle mass and muscl function as well as gait speed
• osterosacropenia

Question 6

interventions for sacropenia

Answer 6

• resistence training
• adequate protein
• adequate calcium intake
• vitamin D

Question 7

weight loss in older adults can cause?

Answer 7

• cachexia
• wasting and failure to thrive
• anoerixa
• unintentional weight loss
• decrease in appetite and energy intake

Question 8

classification of incontience

Answer 8

• transient (reversible - a change in health status, medication or environment
• persistant (chronic) - further classified as
  * stress
  * urgency
  * mixed
  * nocturnal enuresis
  * post- micturition dribble
  * continous
  * overactive bladder
  * functional

Question 9

what are the risk factors of incontinence

Answer 9

• older age
• obesity
• lower urinary tract symptoms
• infections
• family history
• coughing and chornic lung disease
• diet