Topics relating to the intervention of nurses in Geriatrics
“Provide individualized, comprehensive care, respecting the client’s preference and autonomy.
Chronic illness management and adaptive promotion of health-illness transition processes.
Gerontological nursing implies a set of specific skills and knowledge placed at the service of the person being cared for, the family.
The nurse’s intervention in gerontology is specifically designed to respond to the specific needs of the person.
Gerontology presupposes an integral approach, based on a context of multiprofessional and transdisciplinary collaboration.
Intervention in geriatrics is fundamentally based on respect for the elderly in all their uniqueness, as well as in their totality.
It is the elderly who defines what is relevant or secondary in terms of therapeutic intervention in geriatrics.
The person being cared for, in geriatrics, is a coherent whole, so the aging process, being experienced differently from individual to individual, imposes different responses.
Nursing care for the elderly is based on individuality and respect for the person as a unique individual.
Geriatrics aims to respond to the specific and increasingly complex needs of the elderly population.
The multidisciplinary intervention in geriatrics allows the incorporation of knowledge from the various professional and disciplinary areas for a global and comprehensive approach to the elderly, their caregivers and their families.
Intervention in geriatrics results from the recognition that elderly people have particularities and specific characteristics as a result of the aging process.
The intervention of nurses in geriatrics aims to promote the training of clients, families, significant others and caregivers in protecting their health in the face of physical, mental and psychological changes resulting from aging.
Intervention in geriatrics contributes to the realization of a culture of promoting the quality of life of the elderly.
An approach like the one proposed by Cuidar e Viver promotes gains in terms of diagnostic efficacy, with an impact on the reduction of mortality and comorbidity in situations of multipathology.
A personalized follow-up, adjusted to the specific needs of the elderly person, contributes to the reduction of the use of hospitalization in residential structures for the elderly, hospital admission and episodes of hospital emergency.
Nursing care for the elderly and their family aims to maximize health conditions, minimizing losses and limitations.”