Question

Describe how a nurse’s attitude toward older adults can affect his or her participation in activities that promote movement.

Answer 1

Mobility promotes healthy aging as it relates to the basic human need of physical movement. Mobility declines with increasing age, and the most complex and demanding tasks are affected first. an nursing intervention aiming to increase physical activity, may also prevent mobility decline among older people. Sensory deficits, such as poor vision and hearing may increase the risk of mobility decline. Consequently, rehabilitation of sensory functions may prevent falls and decline in mobility. To promote mobility, it is not enough to target only individuals because environmental barriers to mobility may also accelerate mobility decline among older people. Communities need to promote the accessibility of physical environments while also trying to minimize negative attitude toward the physical activity of older people.

nurses prefer to care for younger patients with acute illnesses that are curable. health care professionals hold negative views about old age and this is reflected in their attitudes. discrimination toward older adults is now prevalent in all areas of healthcare services. It has been indicated that increasing healthcare quality for older adults depends on the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of the nurses who work with the older adults.

Health care professionals, including registered nurses and nursing students, lack knowledge of how older clients differ from their younger counterparts in symptom presentation and potential complications. To illustrate this previous point, some registered nurses do not realize that older clients experience particular illnesses differently than their younger counterparts, such as myocardial infarctions, pneumonia, drug interactions, and depression . Wells and associates found that nurses had less accurate knowledge about aging than other health professionals. Cognitive impairment may complicate the assessment of pain, resulting in nurses feeling uncertain about their assessments and reluctant to administer pain medication and may also impede end of life care.

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