Elderly patients on the psychological care and perioperative.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Elderly patients on the psychological care and perioperative Old age is a life-long development process of the special stage, has a unique psychological characteristics. [1] the elderly when they fall ill, prone to have strong psychological reactions, and numerous psychological studies have fully confirmed the occurrence of disease in elderly patients, development and play an important role in the outcome, so do the anxiety of the disease in elderly patients, the fear of surgery and postoperative pain and other aspects of psychological care to reduce complications and promote patient recovery and improve the cure rate is important. The following I will be elderly patients exist in a number of perioperative nursing measures of psychological problems and described as follows: 1. Elderly patients from admission to common psychological problems before surgery Some foreign research results showed that patients in the hospital the highest anxiety level within 24 hours, the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measurements, a high degree of emotional instability of anxiety, longer duration, it normally takes five days or more long time to adapt to various stress stimuli before surgery (WilsonBarnet, 1978, [1] Therefore, in patients with admission just to deal with existing or potential problems of its evaluation, so as to formulate appropriate care plans and targeted care measures. Most elderly patients when they fall ill, it means that on the health and even had a major threat to life, then most likely have a relatively strong psychological reactions, and their attitude toward the disease is usually preferred to passive acceptance, but also do not want to go looking for active treatment, so that dragged more easily increase the disease, they are often already at a late stage in the admission, the patients most prone to these types of psychological problems the following: 1.1 denial of psychological: fear of family who refused to reco