The Effects Of Yoga On Physical Functioning And Health Related Quality Of Life In Gerontology

Gerontology is a type of scientific study based on social, cognitive, biological, and psychological aspects of aging. It focus on the fact, medical aspects, social aspects, policies and programs for old people that authorities and medical aspect highlight in order to provide relieve and care they require to lead their life comfortably. Moreover, the paper aims to analyse two different articles on old people in order to highlight five different issues from both the article and their nursing practices respectively to understand the role of nurses in different situations.
Article 1
The article “The Effects of Yoga on Physical Functioning and Health Related Quality of Life in Older Adults” is based on a systematic review in regards of comparing
Yoga is among the exercise activities that help old people to normalize their body function and be active in their daily life.
Effectiveness of Yoga in compare to other exercise
Among different health exercises, Yoga is one of the best healthy activity that help people of all age especially old people to improve their mental, physical and internal strength by performing it regularly.
Risk of functional limitations, disability
The slow working of old people limits their working pattern in other words physical exercise requires human body to have the flexibility to perform different exercise pattern. On the contrary, Yoga requires only mind focus at its initial working that makes it a better option of old people to adopt as their exercise pattern.
Lack of reporting of adverse effects
It is observe that as old people lack active movement of body they are unable to handle the flexibility that is required by implementing Yoga as physical exercise pattern. Moreover, it is found that lack of reporting of the adverse effects in Yoga questions its credibility and exercise pattern in old people.
Yoga for Old
Self-medication
Most of the old people are used to take medication for normal problems by themselves to cure problems like headache and others. These medications reduce the efficiency of their immune system and slow their healing process.
Automated System
Automated system in regards medication errors helps the organisation to reduce the medication errors in healthcare facilitation. It is observe that these systems help the organisation to reduce these medication swap case because of the records and details they feed in their system.
Nursing practices
• It is important for a professional nurse to have a complete information portfolio of their patent along with their eating habits, allergies, age, diagnosis, lab tests, and vital signs to avoid any medication error issue.
• Having the knowledge of the medicines and their formulas also help nurses to avoid exchange of medicines.
• Nurses should communicate with the patient to teach patent the name and purpose of every medicine they are giving to them.
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