More Nursing Home Patients Suffer From Malnourishment Compared With People In Developing Countries
As is we need another statistic to confirm the extensive problems facing nursing home patients, here's some more fuel to add to the fire-- 35% to 85% of nursing home patients suffer from malnourishment according to a study published in Commonwealth Fund. In response to this epidemic, an international group of nutrition experts has released new definitions to help medical professionals better equip themselves to identify and treat malnutrition. According to the new guidelines, adult malnutrition can now be classified in one of three categories: Starvation-related Chronic disease-related Acute disease / injury-related. The new guidelines were assembled in conjunction with...
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Bedsores: Are You At Risk?
The incidence of bedsores (or pressure sores or decubitus ulcers) is shockingly common in many nursing homes, hospital and assisted living facilities. Determining who may be at risk for developing this potentially devastating condition is important to preventing the development of them in the first place. If a family member has one or more of the conditions below they are at an increased risk for development of bedsores. A daily monitoring of their condition should be done as the first step of prevention. The following are risk factors identified by The Mayo Clinic: Age: If you are over 70, you...
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Everything You Want To Know About Pressure Sores
A client's daughter forwarded this link to me regarding pressure sores (or similarly called pressure ulcer, decubitus ulcer or bed sore). This is a thorough discussion of the subject and is useful to all who have pressure sores or who may be at high risk for developing them. This article appeared on the CNN website. Bedsores (Pressure sores) From MayoClinic.com Special to CNN.com Bedsores, more accurately called pressure sores or pressure ulcers, are areas of damaged skin and tissue that develop when sustained pressure -- usually from a bed or wheelchair -- cuts off circulation to vulnerable parts of your body,...
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