老年教学常见问题
什么是老年人？
一种老年人is a primary care physician who cares for older adults, especially people 65 and older. Geriatricians have the additional training and experience needed to care for older adults, who often begin to experience more complex health issues as they age.
Geriantricians在老年人享受许多条件，包括：
- arthritis：你的关节炎症导致疼痛和僵硬
- 阿尔茨海默氏病：一种影响您的记忆，思维和行为的痴呆症的进步形式
- 平衡问题: problems caused by weakened hips, ankles, and inner ear disorders
- 癌症：一群由异常分裂的细胞引起的疾病，可以在整个身体中传播
- 失智: a condition that affects your memory, thinking, behavior, and language
- 糖尿病：代谢疾病可损害你神经，肾脏和其他器官
- 脆弱：逐渐下降和弱化健康，以体力丧失和对疾病的脆弱性增加而标志着
- 听力损失and视力损失：常见的耳朵和眼睛的疾病，标志着功能损失
- heart disease：广泛的心血管疾病损害了心功能
- 失眠: a sleep disorder that makes it hard to fall and stay asleep
- 骨关节炎：在你的关节中失去了破碎引起疼痛和僵硬的
- osteoporosis: a loss of bone density that causes your bones to grow weaker
- urinary incontinence：膀胱控制失去
有五个地区如今使用categorize an older adult’s care, including:
- 最重要的事物：患者处理姑息或终生关怀
- 药物：患者管理和服用多种药物的患者
- 思想：认知和行为健康问题的患者
- mobility: patients who are prone to falling or who have lost mobility
- 多重复杂性：管理持续伤害和慢性疾病的患者
Some of the most common procedures geriatricians perform include:
The age at which you start seeing a geriatrician depends on many factors, including your lifestyle, chronic conditions, medications, and more.
如果你：你可能想参观一个老年人：
- are interested in receiving lifestyle guidance as an older adult
- 经历了脆弱或损伤的增加
- have started to feel symptoms of diseases associated with aging, such as dementia
- 与需要复杂护理的慢性条件一起生活
- 服用多种药物