Nursing programs aim to help seniors

With a baby-boomer population heading into its comparison years, a nation's aged population is upon a verge of exploding. That's why programs which teach nursing students about a issues confronting aging patients have been some-more consequential than ever, pronounced Lydia Greiner, assistant professor of nursing at Fairfield University. Greiner is directing two such projects, with a help of $35,161 in accede to money from a Southwestern Community Agency upon Aging.The projects sight students as well as community members to tackle two major issues confronting seniors -- remedy government as well as tumble prevention. "Both programs have been geared to prevent events which can means negative outcomes for older adults," Greiner said. "They additionally will help a (nursing students) become some-more skilled in taking care of older adults." The students received a accede to appropriation in October, though were working upon a remedy government module before a results were announced. The module is called a HomeMeds Medication Management Improvement Program as well as is a partnership between a propagandize as well as Shamrock Home Care in Fairfield, a Westport Weston Health District as well as Stratford Visiting Nurse Association. Under a supervision of faculty, nursing students assess older adults who live upon their own with a questionnaire which identifies intensity remedy problems. The students then come in a data into a computer program, as well as home care nurses have been alerted to any intensity problems.Mary Therien, president as well as chief executive officer of Stratford VNA, pronounced a module is essential, as dangerous remedy errors have been a serious health hazard for a elderly. "Most older patients have been upon multiple medications," Therien said. "And sometimes a remedy may be prescribed by one medicine which interacts with a remedy prescribed by another physician, as well as neither is aware of it."The students participating in a remedy government module provide another set of eyes which can spot problems before they occur.The other module saved by a accede to is a tumble prevention program, called A Matter of Balance, which was developed by an organization in Maine. Through a program, some-more than twenty students, faculty as well as community members will be trained in tumble prevention. The trainees -- dubbed "coaches" -- will then go to comparison housing sites as well as comparison centers Southwestern Connecticut to lead eight weekly two-hour workshops upon tumble prevention.According to a Connecticut Department of Public Health, falls have been a leading means of injury-related death for Connecticut residents aged 65 years as well as older. That module will flog off Saturday.Sacred Heart University's nursing propagandize additionally received appropriation from Southwestern Connecticut Agency upon Agency, for a remedy government module as well as a health screening program. SWCAA accede to manager Patricia Knebel pronounced a agency has a long-standing partnership with Fairfield University, as well as quite admires its commitment to training nursing students about health problems confronting seniors. "We're going to need a lot of nurses in a future who want to work with seniors," she said.If you have been interested in being trained for a "A Matter of Balance" program, call 203-254-4000, ext. 3225.Reach Amanda Cuda at acuda@ctpost.com or 203-330-6290. Follow at twitter.com/AmandaCuda. http://blog.ctnews.com/whatthehealth/. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc

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