The nurse practitioner is crucial in monitoring and enhancing older individuals’ physical activity and function. Older folks should begin with adequate physical exercise for their present fitness level and progressively increase their strength training. Current physical activity guidelines for older persons call for 150 mins of moderate to intense aerobic activity weekly or 75 mins of intense aerobic activity (Resnick & Boltz, 2019). The aim is thirty minutes of continuous exercise. In addition, at least two sessions weekly of muscle-strengthening workouts for all major muscle groups are recommended. Coordination and balance activities should be included on three or more days each week to prevent falls.
What impact does aging have on pharmacology and safe drug prescribing?
The aging process is marked by an increasing weakening of all system organ functioning capabilities, loss in homeostatic processes, and altered responsiveness to receptor activation. Such age-related biological changes have an impact on medication pharmacodynamics a
nd pharmacokinetics in older people. With increasing age, PK / PD changes, along with comorbidities and polymorphism, may drastically affect the impact of pharmacological therapy. Significant variations in medication response have been seen in aged people in comparison to younger patients who had similar drug concentrations, for the same medical condition (Fialová et al., 2019).
References
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