title: Under new management: asthma and the elderly.
abstract: 1. Since asthma may not develop until middle age and may then be accompanied or camouflaged by other complications, it often goes unrecognized in the elderly. 2. The inflammatory disease process can be both acute and chronic, and falls under six different categories. 3. The role of the nurse educator is to teach the elderly asthmatic self-care skills.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McKinney
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001249:Asthma / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D015985:Precipitating Factors; D012648:Self Care