geria midterm

Actual conflict of interest issues

between family

members and

caregivers represent

the elderly or assist

them in decision-

making

Perceived conflicts of interest

which

include those which

are not actual conflicts

in the course of care

but may later become

conflicts when the

elder patient’s interest

diverge from those

who provide the care.

RA 7432

known as “an act to maximize the

contribution of senior citizens to nation building,

grant benefits and special privileges and for other

purposes”.

RA 8425

provides for the

institutionalization and enhancement of the social

reform agenda by creating the National Anti-

Poverty commission (NAPC).

RA 344

provides for the minimum requirements and

standards to make buildings, facilities, and utilities

for public use accessible to persons with disability,

including older persons who are confined to

wheelchair and those who have difficulty in walking

or climbing stairs, among others.

Accessibility law of 1982

RA 344 is also known as

RA 9994

an act granting additional benefits

and privileges to senior citizens, further amending

Republic Act No. 7432 and otherwise known as “an

act to maximize the contribution of senior citizens to

nation building, grant benefits and special

privileges and for other purposes.

Expanded Seniors Citizen Act 9f 2010

RA 9994 is also known as

RA 10155

under Section 28

mandates that all government agencies and

instrumentalities should allocate one percent of their

total agency budget to programs and projects for

older persons and persons with disability

The General Appropriations Act of 2012

RA 10155 is also known as

RA 10645

Amending for the purpose, Republic act

No. 7432, as amended by Republic Act No. 9994

by removing the qualification that a senior citizen

has to be indigent before being covered by

PhilHealth

An Act Providing For the Mandatory Philhealth Coverage for All Senior Citizens

RA 10645 is an act that

RA 10868

All Filipinos who have turned

centenarian in the current fiscal year shall be

awarded a plaque of recognition and a cash

incentive by their respective city or municipal

governments in appropriate ceremonies in addition

to the LETTER of FELICITATION and centenarian gift

of P 100,000.00.

Centenarians act of 2016

RA 10868 is also known as and an act honoring and granting additional benefits and privileges to a Filipino centenarians

Presidential Proclamation No. 470, Series of

1994

declares the first week of OCTOCER of

every year as “ Elderly Filipino Week.”

October

In what month is the Elderly Filipino Week celebrated?

Presidential Proclamation No. 1048 series of 1999

declaring a “Nationwide Observance in the

Philippines of the International Year of Older

Persons”

Executive Order No. 105, series of 2003

approved

and directed the implementation of the program

providing for group homes and foster homes for

neglected, abandoned, abused, detached, and poor

older persons and persons with disabilities.

The Philippine Plan of Action for senior Citizens

(2011-2016).

This plan aims to ensure giving priority to

community-based approaches which are gender-

responsive, with effective leadership and meaningful

participation of senior citizens in decision-making

processes, both in the context of family and community.

Malfeasance

committing an unlawful or improper act

Misfeasance

performing an act improperly

Nonfeasance

failure to take proper action

Malpractice

failure to abide by the standards of one’s profession

criminal negligence

disregard to protection the safety of another person

Personal loss

Any significant loss of someone or something that can no longer be seen or felt, heard, known or experienced & that requires individual adaptation through the grieving process.

Perceived loss

Loss that is less tangible & uniquely defined by the grieving client (loss of confidence, prestige). Experienced by one person but cannot be verified by others.

Maturational loss

Change in developmental process that is normally expected during a lifetime. Loss that occur on the process of normal development.

Situational loss

Loss of a person, thing or quality resulting from a change in a life situation, including changes related to illness, body image, environment and death. Any sudden, unexpected and definable event that is not predictable.

Actual loss

Can be identified by others & can arise either in response to or in anticipation of a situation. Any loss of a person or object that can no longer be felt, heard, known, or experienced by the individual.

Grief

The total response to the emotional experience related to loss which is usually resolved within 6 months to 2 years.

Abbreviated grief

Grief which is brief but genuinely felt; lost may not have been sufficiently important to the grieving person or may have been replaced immediately by another, equally esteemed object.

Anticipatory grief

Process of accomplishing part of the grief work before an actual loss; grief response in which the person begins grieving process before an actual loss.

Dysfunctional grief

Occurs when there is prolonged emotional instability, withdrawal from usual task or activities that previously gave pleasure & lack of progression from one level to successful coping with the loss. Extended grief, unsuccessful use of intellectual and emotional responses by which individuals attempt to work through the process of modification.

Unresolved grief

extended in length and severity, bereaved may also have difficulty expressing the grief, may deny the loss or may grief beyond expected time; severe chronic grief reaction in which the person does not complete the resolution stage of the grieving process within a reasonable time.

Inhibited grief

many of normal symptoms of grief are suppressed and other effects, including somatic are experienced instead.

Grieving process

Sequence of affective, cognitive & physiological states through which the person responds to and finally accepts an irretrievable loss.

Bereavement

The subjective response experienced by the surviving loved ones after the death of a person with whom they have shared a significant relationship. Experience alterations in libido, concentration, patterns of eating, sleeping, activity and communication.

The behavioral process through which grief is eventually resolved or altered. Process by which people adapt to a loss which is influenced by cultural, customs, rituals, and society’s rules for coping with loss.

Hope

Characterized by a confident, yet uncertain expectation of achieving a goal

Closure

The point at which the loss has been resolved and the grieving individual can move on with life without focusing on the loss.

Loss of aspect for self

Any change the person perceives as negative in the way the person relates to the environment is loss of self.

Rigor Mortis

Stiffening of the body that occurs about 2 to 4 hours after death due to lack of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP),which is not synthesized because of a lack of glycogen in the body.

Starts in the involuntary muscles (heart,bladder, etc.) then progresses to head, neck, trunk and finally reaches the extremities.

- Leaves the body about 96 hours after death.

Algor Mortis

Gradual decrease of the body’s temperature after death.

- When blood circulation terminates and the hypothalamus ceases to function, body temperature falls about 1 degree Celsius per hour until it reaches room temperature.

Livor Mortis

Bluish discoloration of the skin after death.

After blood circulation has ceased, skin becomes discolored.

The RBC breakdown, releasing hemoglobin, which discolors the surrounding tissues.

Embalming

Injection of chemicals in the body to destroy the bacteria.

- Tissues after death become soft & eventually liquefied by bacterial fermentation.

- The hotter the temperature, the more rapid the change, therefore, bodies are often stored in cool places to delay the process.