Pre-Operative Care in Elderly Patients with Fractures

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Karakurt P., Bahçeli A.

in: Advances in Health Sciences Research, Plamen Milchev CHERNOPOLSKI Nelya Lukpanovna SHAPEKOVA Bilal AK Behire SANÇAR, Editor, ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFIA, Sofija, pp.102-112, 2020

  • Publication Type: Book Chapter / Chapter Research Book
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Publisher: ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI UNIVERSITY PRESS SOFIA
  • City: Sofija
  • Page Numbers: pp.102-112
  • Editors: Plamen Milchev CHERNOPOLSKI Nelya Lukpanovna SHAPEKOVA Bilal AK Behire SANÇAR, Editor
  • Erzincan Binali Yildirim University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

As the elevated average age of the society has led to high number of the elderly

patients, an awareness about care needs of geriatric patients has risen (Savcı and

Bilik, 2014). Among elderly patients; there is a need for –in the general sense- the

improvement of musculoskeletal health, the existing musculoskeletal problems and

the treatments to be given. It is important that elderly patients with chronic diseases

such as arthritis should learn how to live with these diseases and how to lead a life of

quality. Nurses bear significant responsibilities in this sense (Tabloski, 2006; Erdil

and Bayraktar, 2010).