Cognitive symptoms of the home recovery of the elderly

It is estimated that by 2050, there will be more than 20 million patients with cognitive diseases, 10%of the elderly over 75 years old have cognitive disorder, and 1/3 of the elderly over 85 years old are cognitive elderly people. At present, family pensions have become the main ways to pension in my country. However, due to lack of nursing knowledge and experience, the elderly have lost unexpectedly, disorderly behavior, and injuries.

| Life Nursing

1. Memory training

(1) Maintenance of long -term memory: Watching old photos, memories of the past, encouragement of your own stories, etc. with the patient.

(2) Improve their logical reasoning capabilities: guide patients to classify and memorize pictures, phrases or physical objects.

(3) Improve instantaneous memory capabilities: use the method of remembered numbers, inquiry date, re -description of the phone number, memories of the names of the pens, glasses, keys and other items presented before.

(4) Training its delayed memory ability: By presenting several daily necessities such as pens, glasses, keys, etc., let the patient recall the name of the items presented before 5 seconds, guide the patient to remember a section of information, repeat the information according to a certain interval, repeat the information, repeat repeated Perform and gradually extend the interval time and other methods.

2. Thinking training training for the elderly's comprehensive analysis, judgment, reasoning and computing ability, and make full use of the residual brain power. For example, arrange numbers: 3 digital cards for the elderly, arranged from small to large order, and then give 1 digital card each time. Please insert him into the 3 cards that have been ranked according to the number size.

Training reasoning: From the tools, animals, plants, food, etc., just point out a piece of food like food, and let him talk about food as much as possible.

Training classification: Give the elderly with a list of 30 items names, and inform the 30 items that belong to one of the three categories of food, furniture, and clothes, and require the elderly to classify. Others such as brain -mouting games, riddles, and timely comments in group discussions; other text games, names and pairing games. Although these activities may not be able to improve memory, it will help the elderly to develop different strategies and enhance their confidence. Therefore, such activities can also be regarded as the practice of auxiliary strategies, and even the general method of stimulating intelligence.

3. Music therapy "music therapy" is a planned use of music to improve some people who have lack of intelligence, physical and social in terms of intelligence, body and social networking. It is a job for some people, but it may be entertainment to others. Its diversification and strength involve different levels, including function, sensory, cognition, social and emotion. Music has a positive impact on the body and mind, such as promoting emotional changes, enhancing emotional reactions, promoting emotional health and improving social skills. For some people, it can even strengthen people, things and local cognition. If you cooperate with some physical activities, it will also help promote health.

For some aggressive cognitive elderly, music also has a soothing and stable effect. There are many types of music activities, including listening to music, singing, percussion instruments, music gymnastics, etc. Moreover, music activities can be integrated into daily life. Different music is played at different times, which will help the elderly's awareness of time.

4. Restaurant to improve diet can effectively prevent elderly dementia. The activity of brain nerve cells require sufficient protein, thermal energy, lecithin, choline, vitamin, trace elements, etc. To this end, we must first achieve a dietary balance. Eat more foods rich in zinc, manganese, selenium, and crickets, such as seafood, shells, fish, milk, beans, nuts, silkworm pupa, garlic, mushrooms, etc. Food is very beneficial for preventing the occurrence of elderly dementia.

| Spiritual care

1. Remembering the treatment of "remembering" is a therapeutic medium widely adopted in the psychiatric department of the elderly, and is suitable for the treatment of elderly dementia and elderly depression. I can remember in different forms, including individual recalcidity, interviews with people, sharing of groups, exhibitions and dramas. Because of its diversification and easy integration in daily activities and conversations, many hospitals and institutions serving the elderly are happy.

Because long -term memory is some real materials, the elderly can express their opinions and emotions without pressure. When sharing the past years and achievements, the personal dignity of the elderly can be maintained and helps them re -affirm themselves. At the same time, the elderly will feel accepted and forgiven, and sharing with others will also give an opportunity to learn and recognize, so that the elderly get greater support to face the current or future challenges.

Generally, you can combine happy and unhappy memories. Because too much eye -catching memories will cause escape reality, only focusing on unpleasant pasts but will make the elderly down. Therefore, the trainers should be cautious. Some studies also show that the appropriate reinforcement activities can help increase the satisfaction of the elderly, reduce depression and improve the quality of life.

| Sports therapy

Bare or use equipment to allow the elderly to perform various methods of improving exercise functions to restore exercise functions and prevent and treat muscle atrophy and joints. Sports therapy combined with stimulating the training of the brain and moderate exercise can prevent the elderly from living indoors and reducing the occurrence of unexplained, but also have a good effect on improving mental symptoms such as depression.

1. Simple

(1) Walking, one of the best exercises, simple and efficient. You can be in the house, in the yard, or outdoors, no matter how long, it is very good for the body and spirit. You can combine walking with some miscellaneous things, such as express delivery, walking dogs, buying, etc.

(2) Sitting on the chair, sitting on the chair and standing many times, you can strengthen the muscles required for some basic activities (such as toilet). (3) Stand and keep a balance. If the elderly stand unstable, they need to maintain support. You can exercise independently, or it can also be used as part of daily life, such as washing dishes and watching TV.

(4) Sitting on the ground for a few minutes every day (need to supervise to prevent falls), and enhance the abdominal and back muscles.

(5) Lie on the bed and stretch, move all parts of the body, and stretch the stiff muscles.

2, mild

(1) Stretch or strength exercise, you can try chair exercises.

(Related exercises: How can the elderly exercise safely? These 18 actions can practice the whole body in the chair)

(2) Taking Tai Chi, you can find some video teaching, or find a professional teacher.

(3) Simple labor such as gardening and weeding can give people a sense of accomplishment and is a good way to exercise.

(4) Family miscellaneous services, such as stacking clothes, cleaning kitchen, and vacuum cleaner.

| Precautions for rehabilitation training

In order to make the elderly easy to walk alone and prevent falls, a handrail should be added in the corridor, aisle, bathroom or toilet. The amount of exercise function rehabilitation training is based on the physical strength, endurance, age, age, and diabetes of the elderly. In addition, the elderly are often combined with osteoporosis, and the movements are gentle during training. Pay attention to protection to avoid fractures.

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