GERIATRIC SYMDROME: CONSTIPATION

Constipation is a common disease of older people.

 The reason why older people prone to constipation, mainly causes is follow:

there are a mainly causes to produce the constipation in elderly and it can coexist at the same time:

1. They do less activity and their phsysiological functions.

2. The suffer diseases like anemia, diabetes, depression, central nervous system diseases...all of this have a influence in the costipation

3. They take a lot of drugs. The opiate for exaple dicrease the peristaltisms

4. They could suffer a obstructive process.

ASSESSMENT TO PREVENT THE CONSTIPATION

1, schedules to develop regular bowel habits

2, Good diet: Usually the elderly should eat more food with cellulose and fruits to increase  fiber intake for stimulate and promote intestinal peristalsis.

3, a good water intake : to increase the intestinal peristalsis, and promote defecation.

4, increase the activity:

5, the mood of optimism: anxiety and other bad mood can lead to or aggravate constipation. Despiste of this, elderly people should always keep a good mood.

6, medication: In the elderly can use drugs to help defecation. Paraffin oil can be oral or enema. be noted that the elderly  should not be long-term use of drugs in order to avoid the formation of dependency so that the function of peristalsis degradation, increase constipation.