Planning for travel? What to do after the trip
Reaching home after a long trip brings two types of conflicting feelings. While you may feel certain happiness of reaching home, there may be some reluctance of ending the happy time spent abroad. Nevertheless, there is some precaution to watch out after a long trip.
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Planning for travel? What to do during the trip
Planning well before a trip will ensure you to have an enjoyable time . However, there are still some tips that may prove to be useful to take note during the proper trip itself.
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Planning for travel? What to do before the trip
Part of successful aging is to continue doing what you enjoy as long as your health status allows. Travelling may be something on your mind.
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Choosing Walking Aid
Introduction Human body is made to move. Mobility is vital part of our daily lives. Moving improves ability to perform daily activities and thus improves quality of life. Walking can become a problem as people aged by means of disabilities preventing the person from using the limbs, reduced …
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Death and Dying in Elderly
Currently elderly people may have different trajectories of death and dying because of the wonders of medical sciences, which have helped prolonged human life and postponing death. These modern ways of manipulating life have blurred the boundary between life and death, making prognostication of death in the elderly very difficult and complicated.
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Drug-Related Problems in the Elderly
Prescribing for elderly patients presents unique-challenges. Many medications need to be used with special caution because of age-related changes in pharmacokinetics (ie, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and pharmacodynamics (the physiologic effects of the drug).
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How to Care for Your Nasogastric Tube
Nasogastric tube, or NG tube is inserted through the patient’s nose and into his/her stomach to provide them with food, fluids, and medication.
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Perineal Care
Perineal care involves washing the genital and rectal areas of the body.
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How to Care for a Urine Catheter
A urinary catheter is a tube placed in the bladder to drain the urine for a variety of reasons such as incontinence, pressure sore-care or retention of urine.
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