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Lack of care givers’ knowledge causes unnecessary suffering in elderly patients
Author(s) -
Lindell Marianne E.,
Olsson Henny M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01486.x
Subject(s) - personal hygiene , medicine , hygiene , personal care , nursing care , sex organ , family medicine , nursing , gerontology , pathology , biology , genetics
A comparative study of the personal hygiene of two groups of elderly women was carried out. The control group consisted of 35 healthy women aged 70‐86. The experimental group consisted of 28 women aged 66‐96 who were hospitalized in long‐term care wards and who received help with their personal hygiene. The results show that care givers lack knowledge about the normal physiological ageing process in women, which prevents them from applying the eighth component of Virginia Henderson's nursing theory. In the group who received help with their personal hygiene, 25 (89%) had abnormal genital problems.