[Aged with sarcopenia: an approach of nursing care].
In the grow old process organic and functional damages happening, wich rhythm and intensity change from person to person and that finish to reduce the ability from each person has to adapt the environment, making more visible and vulnerable to illness process, that are the perturbation produced in the body by the illness taking the person to a natural physical decline. Pain and disorders in the muscle skeletal system are the most frequent complain in the old age and the second cause of inability in this group. This fact is comprehensible now that many diseases of the muscle skeletal system have more incidence with the advance of age, beside others that are almost exclusive of these population and are chronic illness, not deadly with cumulative frequence ones predisposing the others. Is in this context that is situated the responsability of the attention and care of the older with sarcopenia, having to the nursing like member of a interdisciplinar group, make efforts to act in the prevention, guidance, supervision and management of the assistance.
Unicovsky
Margarita Ana Rubin
MA
Departamento Medico-Cirúrgica da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. mar.u@terra.com.br
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000451:nursing*; D012648:Self Care