Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation: Stroke. Health, Medicine, Nursing.

Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation: Stroke
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Stroke is a common debilitating and deleterious condition that may often affect older adults. It is common among adults and older adults because it tends to exist with other health conditions that appear to be related to advancing age, including diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, or hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. Stroke can be lifelong health conditions with increasingly severe symptoms that interfere with activities of daily living, mobility, neurovascular-related problems, and reduced quality of psychosocial well-being. Stroke cannot be managed single-handedly. Instead, it requires a team of well-coordinated stroke rehabilitation and recovery care team committed to offer optimized care in addressing individuals' needs and provide stroke victim with satisfying care from point diagnosis to recovery. Nursing personnel works in conjunction with other professionals to offer collaborative care that improves the quality of life. This paper will focus on stroke among older adults in terms of long term management of this condition.
Chronic Illness and Rehabilitation: Stroke
Stroke represents a cerebrovascular accident marked by the death of some brain cells due to impaired cellular perfusion and oxygenation secondary to vascular rupture or blockage. The blood perfusion and oxygenation disruption lead to a cascade of activities leading to impairment in cognitive, memory, motor, language, and sensory abilities. About 85 % of strokes are ischemic, which refers to those that entail the blockage of vascular pathways, while 15 % are hemorrhagic (Gibbon et al., 2012), which entails blood flow to brain tissue as a result of vessels vascular ruptures. Stroke is one of the diseases that have far-reaching implications on an individual's health well-being. It impairs psychosocial and physiological functioning as well as the ability to do the activities of daily living. Its severity can increase, resulting in long-term effects, including patients requiring supportive and rehabilitative care. Stroke is a leading cause of death in adults and is the most prevalent cause of disability worldwide (Hartford, Lear & Nimmon, 2019). Rehabilitation is a critical component in the management of stroke that involves a clear framework of enabling stroke patients to regain physical, intellectual, psychological, sensory, and social functionality, thereby allowing better recovery outcomes in acute and short and long term cases.
Stroke is a high-burden disease associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and disabilities. It has broad-based and intertwining risk factors, including obesity, diabetes, high low-density lipoproteins, and high blood measure. There is a similarity in risk factors with those of corona heart disease and other cardiovascular conditions. Stroke is a condition that often requires rehabilitative care to boost health outcomes and improve the quality of life of the affected person. Recovering from strong is challenging due to the need for prolonged commitment, patience, and hardworking. On many occasions, rehabilitative care has been suggested as a critical intervention in the management of chronic stroke. Timely rehabilitation among ...