Schizophrenia in Older Adults and Nurses

Schizophrenia in Older Adults and Nurses

Introduction

Schizophrenia is considered as the cerebral diseases that fall in the category of most critical diseases in medical science. Moreover, schizophrenia refers to the most emotionally devastating and disabling illnesses to the man. This disease was not identified over a number of decades, and its victims moved towards the death because of this condition. Schizophrenia is extremely rare and different disorder found in the population, and a number of studies have found this disorder connected to the older people. It was mistakenly recognized as the split personality, but literature and other evidence based reviews described that it cannot be taken as a split personality case. Furthermore, initially it was considered as the diseases caused by poor parenting or any personal weakness. However, it was cleared after some years that this condition is directly associated with biological factors. Statistics of different departments revealed that around one per cent of the US based population is coping with this condition. It is also a fact that there is no cure for this condition, and it can be managed with the help of maintaining symptoms. Specialists and other professionals have revealed that the presence of abnormal behavior is the first symptom of schizophrenia. Moreover, poor thoughts, delusions, mood abnormality, and hallucinations are other symptoms (Stefansson et al. 2009).

Discussion

Schizophrenia in Older Adults

A term, late life schizophrenia, has been used for those older adults who are coping with schizophrenia. Late life schizophrenia also refers to the condition in which people got indulged with schizophrenia in early adulthood, but its symptoms emerged into their late life. Various studies have concluded that the rate of schizophrenia is extremely high among older adults. It is possible because of the nature of condition. The impact of schizophrenia over the older adults ...