TAILIEUCHUNG - Best Practice Statement: Care of the Older Person’s Skin

Empowerment is the increase of individual and collective power of people and social groups in interpersonal relations and institutions, especially those submitted to relations of oppression and social domination(8). As such, empowerment will have the primary purpose of helping people and communities to become more independent, generating self-confidence and sense of governance. One can associate empowerment to health gains, as one recognizes that its absence is a risk factor for falling ill(9). Therefore, so-called health promotion goes beyond the small context of health organizations and migrates toward communities, schools and multiple environments, with the development of personal skills as a way of reinforcing communities. In line with this conception, health promotion has an interface with health. | Best Practice Statement Care of the Older Person s Skin CONTENTS Foreword 2 Development team 3 Review panel 3 Introduction 4 Dry vulnerable tissue 4 Pressure ulcers 5 Incontinence 7 Maceration 8 Skin tears 8 Section I Management of dry vulnerable tissue 9 Section 2a Presure ulcers risk assessment 10 Section 2b Pressure ulcers skin inspection 11 Section 2c Pressure ulcers classification 12 Section 2d Pressure ulcers stabilisation positioning 13 Section 2e Pressure ulcers stabilisation mattresses chairs and cushions 14 Section 2f Pressure ulcers promoting healing 15 Section 3a Skin care incontinence 16 Section 3b Skin care maceration 17 Section 4 Skin tears 18 Appendix 1 Definitions of topical skin applications 19 Table 1 Quantities of dermatological preparations prescribed for specific areas of the body 19 Appendix 2 Skin examination 20 Appendix 3 Formal risk assessment scales examples 20 Appendix 4 Pressure ulcer classification scales examples 21 Appendix 5 Skin tear classification system 21 References 22 Best Practice STATEMENT CARE GF THE OLDER Person s Skin 1 Foreword Those charged with caring for the sick and vulnerable in the UK are faced with the challenge of ensuring that their practice is of the highest standards while often working with heavy workloads which can be a barrier to reviewing research literature on a regular basis. Where practitioners can access the latest published research it can often be difficult to establish what changes if any a practitioner should make to their practice to ensure that it is optimal. Frequently research papers call for further research to be conducted or arrive at conclusions which can leave the practitioner unclear as to how practice should be developed. In view of these challenges there is a need for clear and concise guidance as to how to deliver the optimal care. One method of supporting clinicians in this aim is the provision of Best Practice Statements. These types of statements were pioneered in the area of .

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