To get a
continuous care and detect problems early is important to detect problems early
and to be acted on them fairly quickly so it is important specialized care at
different levels.
Having
these different levels of assistance the results that we can obtain are maxima.
The levels
of care are:
- General
Hospital Care
- Community
and Primary Care
-
Specialized care: geriatric unit
These
levels are maintained by the coordination of: interdisciplinary work, proper
use of appropriate levels of care and expertise.
PRIMARY:
At this level, it will be developed promotion and prevention activities, should be a force composed of different professionals to get a role so as to assist and maintain the patient in appropriate health conditions.
At this
level health will be promoted, valued, different preventive activities will be
carried, the patient will be conducted and if needed palliative care.
GENERAL
HOSPITAL:
Level that
does not treat the geriatric patient as such, but the patient admitted for an
illness.
It
highlights the home-hospital units that depend on hospital continuing of hospital
care set in the hospital
Nursing
undertake activities such as: education, treatments, sampling, hygiene, oxygen,
drilling ...
SPECIALIZED
CARE:
They are
interdisciplinary units to specifically treat geriatric patients, highlighting
different units:
- Acute
geriatric unit: patients with acute illnesses
- Average
stay unit: restore functionality after medical procedures
- Long unit
or residence
- Day Hospital
Geriatric: day hospitals.
SOCIAL
SERVICES:
Functions
of the role of social worker assessing the psychosocial factors that influence
the elderly and perform projects of intervention at family, group and
community.
Vanessa Palomares Garcia
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Health
Promotion in the elder. The fragile elderly, detection, prevention and
intervention in situations of weak and deteriorating health. Institute of
Public Health.
http://www.imsersomayores.csic.es/documentos/documentos/gomez-anciano-01.pdf
- Comprehensive
geriatric assessment: differences in the profile of patients of different
assistance levels.Valero, C.; Regalado, PJ, Gonzalez Montalvo, JI; Alarcon
Alarcon, MT; Salgado, A. Posted in Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol. 1998, 33:81-90. -
Vol.33 No. 2
- Treaty of
geriatrics. Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology.
http://www.imsersomayores.csic.es/documentos/documentos/segg-tratado-01.pdf.