Pneumonia Case Study
What factors relating to the elderly could be addressed to reduce the incidence of pneumonia in this population?
Some factors that could be addressed could be having better therapy programs in longterm facility's to prevent patients from aspirating due to impairments of swallowing/coughing.The management of an acute aspiration event consists of conservative management, observation, and possible antibiotic therapy these being inplamented could improve the number of elderly having this deadly complication.
Helping to keep the elderly and caregivers informed about maintaining a healthy lifestyles starting with not smoking, this can affect the lung ability to fight infections. Exercising and healthy diet are also important for the body to keep
up the ability to fight infections, keeping in shape can improve the immune system. For the older community it is also very important to keep up regular doctor and health appointments since many symptoms of pneumonia go missed helping them gain more awareness about there general health is important.
A huge way of preventing pneumonia is getting vaccinated this can be a simple and ver effective way of stopping the spread of diseases especially for people with risk factors such as heart and lung disease and diabetes. Making sure that good hygiene is implemented in care facility's would be extremely effective as well.
Some factors that could be addressed could be having better therapy programs in longterm facility's to prevent patients from aspirating due to impairments of swallowing/coughing.The management of an acute aspiration event consists of conservative management, observation, and possible antibiotic therapy these being inplamented could improve the number of elderly having this deadly complication.
Helping to keep the elderly and caregivers informed about maintaining a healthy lifestyles starting with not smoking, this can affect the lung ability to fight infections. Exercising and healthy diet are also important for the body to keep
up the ability to fight infections, keeping in shape can improve the immune system. For the older community it is also very important to keep up regular doctor and health appointments since many symptoms of pneumonia go missed helping them gain more awareness about there general health is important.
A huge way of preventing pneumonia is getting vaccinated this can be a simple and ver effective way of stopping the spread of diseases especially for people with risk factors such as heart and lung disease and diabetes. Making sure that good hygiene is implemented in care facility's would be extremely effective as well.