Glossary
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Affective Psychosis:
Affective psychosis produces intense changes in mood, either to severe depression with diminution in levels of activity or elation with excessive activity.
Anxiety States:
Anxiety states contain phobias, panic and generalised anxiety disorders where the symptoms, e.g. worry, tension, over-breathing, giddiness, originate distress and/or disability.
Ambulatory:
The ability to walk liberally & independently not confined to bed.
Assessment:
An evaluation frequently realized by a doctor or nurse who examines states mental, emotional, and social capabilities of a person.
Accreditation:
A seal of approval; accredited by the government to a nursing home.
Carelink:
Information centres for older people, people with disabilities, in which they receive care and services.
Case management:
An expression used to describe formal services considered by care professionals.
Dementia:
Dementia is a disorder of the brain where persons lose the memory, in which the symptoms are personality disintegration, mood, and behavior. This disorder can be permanent when is produced by illness or injury but could be temporary when is produced by drugs, alcohol, or depression.
Depressive Disorders:
Depressive disorders are mental illnesses caused by depressed mood, loss of interest, reduced energy, and suicidal ideas. Disturbance in sleep, appetite, and mental processes are common fluctuations.
Disability:
A physical or mental incapacity which limits routine life activities of an individual.
Disablement:
Persons handicapped by diseases, injury, defective hearing or congenital deformity.
Eating Disorders:
Eating disorders is a disease which leads to a loss of appetite characterized by binge eating followed self-induced vomiting, this disorder affects especially among young women.
Elderly Infirm (Frail Elderly):
Persons over 65 years who possess a range of minimal physical disabilities.
Handicap:
A disability that represents a difficulty for an individual by limiting or preventing the normal routine of their life in relation to age, sex, social and cultural aspects.
Hospice:
A program that provides special type of care for people whose illness no longer be curable, in which they are near the end of life, the program of hospice care is not to cure the patient but to improve the quality of life.
High Level Care:
High-level care is for people who need 24-hour nursing care, nurses do tasks as laundry, cleaning and personal care.
Impairment:
An alteration in health in which is loss of normal function of part of the body due to disease or injury, such as paralysis of the leg.
Learning Disability:
Disorders that influence in the capacity of people in learning to read, listen, think, spell, write or use mathematical calculations.
Low Level Care:
Low level care is for people who don’t require a special care.
Mental Disorder:
A mental disorder is an illness of the brain that results in interference in a person's thinking, feeling and moods.
Medicaid:
A program sponsored by the federal government and managed by states that are intended to provide payment for health care services of low-income persons.
Medicare:
A US government program that offers hospital and medical expense benefits for individuals age 65 and older and for persons with disabilities.
Non-Ambulatory:
Not able to walk liberally & independently, always be confined to bed.
Organic Dementia:
Elderly individuals that suffer intellectual descent and memory impairment.
Palliative Care:
Total care of patients whose illness no longer be curable, in which they are near the end of life.
Personal Care:
Care for someone who is disabled in which includes aid with everyday activities, where such support is needed.
Personality Disorders:
Personality disorders are a group of mental disturbances considered by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour.
Psychopathic Disorder:
Means persistent disorder as disability of mind which results in peculiarly aggressive or gravely irresponsible conduct on the part of the person worried
Qualified Nurse (RGN):
Registered General Nurse
Qualified Nurse (RMN):
Registered Mental Nurse
Qualified Nurse (RMNH):
Registered Mental Nurse Handicap
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