Should Geriatric Patients Need Extra Nursing Care than Younger Adult Patients?

Abstract

Geriatric patients need extra nursing care as compared to other young patients due to multiple factors related to their age. As with aging, individuals face a decline in their cognitive and physical health. This lead to make them more vulnerable to age-related complications, like dementia, frailty, and chronic disease. Consequently, due to growing to the growing complications they also required extra nursing care to handle their complications. Therefore nurses need to have a better understanding of their disease process in relation to their frailty and age. However, besides geriatric patients, the other age group also needs extra nursing care for their worse health conditions but their prognosis as compared to elderly patients is high and with fewer complications. While geriatric patients are more prone to develop complications. Therefore, by recognizing the distinct care requirements of elderly patients, nurses should ensure comprehensive care for these vulnerable populations.