Question

Your clinical group has been asked to speak to a group of senior citizens on the topic of osteoporosis. Your group needs to develop an outline that will be reviewed by your instructor before the presentation takes place. Include teaching methods in your answers to the following questions.

Question 1:

Why should this particular audience be concerned with the prevention and development of osteoporosis?

Question 2:

What can you tell the group about raloxifene therapy?

Answer 1

Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bone tissue become damaged, and will not replace by new bone tissue. So it may be sometimes fatal conditions, because serious damages like hip fracture, etc occurring. Mainly one cause us lack of calcium in body.

Question 1.

Teaching method:Lecturer method

As age increases,mainly after 50 yrs, the chance for osteoporosis is high. And also hereditary factors also influencing on it. As age increase, there will reduction of hormones like estrogen and testosterone. So, lack of these hormone will affect the renewal formation of bone tissue. So the osteoporosis more related to senior citizens,.

(So by through this class, the students can give an idea regarding osteoporosis to them. )

Question 2

Lecturer method

Raloxifine therapy is treatment which can be use for osteoporosis. But mainly this therapy acts in postmenopausal women to reduce risk for breast cancer. It produces estrogen like effective bone, so it can also use in osteoporosis. But it visit recommended in postmenopausal women only. This drug can take with advice from doctors . It can take everyday in same time with or without food.