Clinical Management of Complex Cases in the Residential Care Setting

Clinical Management of Complex Cases in the Residential Care Setting

Introduction

This study is based on highlighting the clinical management of elderly people in residential care setting in respect of COPD, Dementia, SHINGLES and Urinary Incontinence - Stress diseases. The clinical management techniques that are followed in the residential care settings for managing the disease in elderly people are effectively elaborated. The residential care staff has to manage a lot of risks and challenges that come across their way while providing clinical treatment to elderly people. The diseases such as dementia, shingles, urinary incontinence and COPD are the diseases that are highly found in elderly adults. Effective clinical treatment in the form of medication, therapies or even surgery in severs cases are required to facilitate the elderly people with improved quality of life.

Discussion

Risks and challenges in relocation of older adults in to residential care

Mostly the relocation of elderly patient from residence to an aged care residence takes place when someone is having declining health or there is not one available at home to support them. These are the most common situations that are faced by the older adults for relocation. The main issue behind relocation of elderly adults in residential care setting in Australia is mainly due to their declining health (Abramovitz, 2003). There are many risks and challenges that are faced by older adults in relocation at residence. They often face stress and emotional imbalance while relocating from one place to another. This can be very harmful for their health and they can even get emotional shock as they form bonding with that place where they live for a longer period of time. It provides cost effective and high quality services that are needed by the older patients.

The challenges that are faced by the older people in relocation are protection of relationships and acceptance of new culture. These are the two main challenges faced by the older adults. They feel difficulty in forming relationships and accepting the cultural differences (Ainsworth, 2007). Most of the elderly people in Australia who are relocated in residential settings are suffering from acute illness that cannot be treated at home as they require extensive care. The major risk that most of the elderly people face during relocation is the risk of isolation from community, family and their own network. They face severe depression and due to this they stop eating.

The challenge that the nursing staff faces due to the elderly people is to bring change in their lifestyle and bring improvement in their health and quality of life. At the same time it is a greater challenge for elderly people to get themselves adjusted to new settings as they are not use to quickly adjust into any new settings. Relocation of the elderly people can have positive effect on their life if nursing staff is capable of keeping them motivated and emotionally attached to them. The nursing staffs at residential care settings need to ...