老年病的特点与预防

老年病是指老年期所罹患的疾病或多发的疾病。老年病的特点可概括为10个"多",即多数老年人患有慢性非传染性疾病(慢性病),多种因素可触发老年病的发生,多数老年病的症状和体征不典型;老年病多数为一体多病,同时伴有多脏器衰竭或多系统功能障碍,有多种老年综合征的表现和多种老年问题的出现;老年病常常存在多重用药和药物副作用的问题,需要多专业医师参与诊治,需要多学科团队参与康复及其护理。如要预防老年病的发生,首先个体要用终身的努力进行自身健康工程的建设,其次要适时进行疾病风险预测,有计划治未病、有信心治已病、有恒心求康复。

The Characteristic and Prevention of Geriatric Diseases

The geriatric diseases are referred to as the common diseases or the diseases the old people suffered from.The characteristics of geriatric diseases are summarized as follows:Most old people suffered from chronic non-infectious diseases;Many factors may trigger the occurrence of geriatric diseases;Most geriatric diseases have the irregular symptoms and bodily signs;Most senile patients suffered from multiple diseases at the same time,accompanied with multi-organ failures and multi-system dysfunctions,and with the manifestation of many kinds of geriatric syndromes and the appearance of many senile problems;The geriatric diseases are often accompanied with the problems caused by the multiple drug uses and the drug side-effects,and need the treatments by the doctors from multiple medical specialties and the recovery and nursing performed by multidisciplinary teams.To prevent the occurrence of geriatric diseases,the individual patients are first required to make long-life effort to set up their own health engineering,and then regularly go through the disease risk prediction and to have the plan of receiving the treatment without sickness,the confidence of treating the existing diseases and the perseverance of pursuing recovery.