Huron Expositor, 1999-09-08, Page 5Inside look at...
Aging population presents
growing need for special care
Geriatri " clinic at hospital helps improve quality of life for patients
with ti -)f social workers, physiotherapists and nurses
said, Crilty. - whose • pain and Parkinson's disease. only reach so far.
appointments with patients. The.arthritis makes it difficult While•they work closely
can last up tit• three hours as for the patient to climb the with the family physician and
he tries to determine all the • stairs to 'her •daughter's. co isult hack and forth. Crilty
factors .affecting him or her. . apartment and the Parkinson's Said in .Seaforth.: they toed to
"It requires a fairly in-depth causes'her hands to shake and do something special that
assessment to determine she is embarrassed because they'd like to have in place in
what': going on.- he said. • .she sOifls food on her clothes all smaller communities.
And Crilty is not alone .in -. when she visits:. t Here. they started training
determining the issues •and -She no longer goes_becaus@ local • nurse; . and
solu.tion..;urrounding.the it is tope painful and physiotherapists to. he.able tr(
patient. The team includes embarrassing. identify and address some ,,f
nurses and physiotherapist; But with these extra 4ssues the concerns that -Jr.: determined in
•
the clinic... •
That wax..
more people can
he reached and
helped in those
1 -areas. - Itke
m a• k i n ,r
Improvements iii
a person.; home
or • helping. a
family through a
difficult. time,
that tall outside
the traditional
fttedic al model:
tor . • treating
diseases:
With then
in plate. there
can - he toot
assessments of
r the..patients and
mitre success by
Crilty or Tither
e Y 1 .1 tr 1 t.
.pectalist;..
He tvOilld
also.like 10 see
his.-tcam able toy
[ra1n= staff at
-nursing homes to
identify coinmon
issues and •he
taught ways to
address them.
"Yoti can
turn thesruif-into
their-- own
p r o h- m
ether, was 'put ► . • .Scott •-ilgendorff photo solvers.'. he said.
t„_ e t he r 'to help =irsf year fomtly. medicine resident, Dr Debbie Robinson reviews a patient with Dr.. Howe ,• ,: r .
a,f d re s s ` ,:• the Richard Crilly who holds_ d -geriatric clinic once a month. at Seaforth Community Hospital. Cn lly said funding
complicated needs A : and uthers'in.the medical identified...members of the • to train .and hate
of older patients: that -can r profession who help. , team are::ible to get involved these people in place was cut
okays he mot b} tams k determine ways to help the and find. ways to help the before they could gci too far.•
physicians. [ patient.
Itop e it's somsomething.we
patient cope with these
'.One thing older pit pie' do'Sometime, ican get back to.hen's• a _concerns and en}uy those. hr. said. •
is accumulate disease said teeling [the problem] is just . visits withherdaughteragain.. •even -rr Ater need ding there �ll st tr prr,ploon c
- because they're old " said • While the tam !v d `t who can asses; and
hrip
1fa
...a ge clinic
8y Scott Hilndorff
f:xpositor5tuff
With an aging population.
the need for specialized
geriatric care is growing. . •
Helping to meet that need ii
r)r. Richard Crilty who leads
a geriatric clinic once a month
at Seatorth Community
Hospital.
You've got
afore and .more
-people growing
'older. That's what
medicine'is now
• about." he said.
Several `ears
ago, the provincial
.royernm.ent set
forth a mandate
that would take
g e r 't ,a t r 1 C
specialists out of
the cities and have
'them work in
clinics across
Ontario. "
Crill'.. who i; an
-waot i e
11'professor to the
Depahtment of
Medicine at the
Universal.' of
Western- Ontario
became Fart ot;the
organitatilln of a
.y item of clinics
that ct .e:ri
Sou.th'se;tern
Ontario, an.area
larger . t'han
Switzerland that
goes • tram
Tobermory tu.
Windsor.
• - A team with
n u r s e d
physiotherapists.
social workers and 1
r•
t ur ur
Because of his or her age Cnll, adding he .doesn t sue . may be. able to help with •the
patient may hale started with.. that happen much' herein. the ' pain of arthritis, through, the xmurs.
a history of heart disease l`ut: Must of hi p tients..are
relationship. between patients clinic, physioitherapists carr be
µis�tnill l�dehelu,.ave �d rr'ems with
ltnn; and 1ndtheir local-faintlydcxtot5. as igneti to help with walking, ebcpe ienctn thy. multtplc
I'` [R that cosi: the patient rrrav be ter while an occupational
be
prrhexPetien;:tn.' h� aring • r'eceive some . formof therapist looks at making a .. JI5t plic.nd(arthriike .� the
treatmrr}t hist it doesn t go tar home easier to get around. cum I p p
At the_ s;linte::._a_ptitsni will ensu-gla-- toward- finding -
with
amu. ti>e :tocol_. P tcatiuris tie u' and the
experience a, di:taile..i ;elutions. ' with family member pfd �abthty tc) caul.nIetenr,ratc•):
etfaminatIon that . Cos er. Working with the . u k don't ex:st iii isolation: "eCuriliv said patients experience
•cvc)rythinz from s' F,h}..:cal. F ' extra •sires; with •whrch-
physiotherapists. nurses and Their families are around: someunr in theirtls or '(k
and mental aaessment to a soclial workers. throughth
the em: We need to hear from
look a how the patient clink.' Collo said they try to .every-siite.ot the family and • might be able ti) tripe. But :ti
functions to his or her home Lind was -i
to further help the • come- up with a plan that's of beci)mes a eomplicaur)n
and with the patient's tamilx:. patie.nt'beyond lust. medical` acceptable to all. -said Dr.-`)tts owns
T. The most common .uneet•ii trt:atmi.nt.Crilty. f And Crilty said as peiipie
•Dr. CI -illy sees in his patient. For example, through the Tjirvugh the conic, he softs, .live longed the Population tit.
doves • jre?m , re' rti,tt5:c :deta1 c:d eratnination.ot the "The patient's quatity of lite or1.ase their `tt)s is Luing tt>
probrent; such as yariou� - increase, creating an even
clinic. Dr. •Crilty might should improve and in some
forms of dementia • like-. uncuyer a patient who entoys cases• the far,,,._ s quality of
greater nerd for people in.
•
•
otitic 'mer•.. each community to he able to
Sunda% dinners w ith her lite should improve, assist the aging:) hi. able
The other is depression, daughter and granddaughter • But the work Dr. •Cally and 'That's probably the most but experiencing arthritis his team ire able to do can enjoy a heiir ryualits ot ties
commonly misdiagnosed,' •
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