مقالات رزومه دکتر محمدرضا یوسفی

Qualifying the given services to the old people is affected by several factors and one of them is nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. The aim of this study was to determine the nurses’ attitude to older people and aging phenomenon This study started searching wildly in databases such as Pub Med, Google Scholar, Science Direct and Iran Doc by older people, nursing and attitude key words to find related articles and studies about nurses’ attitudes toward the old people and aging phenomena. Then among all the articles, the ones were chosen which were more related to the research subject by the research group members. 30 articles were chosen based on the input criteria and no time limit was included. Nurses are the effective members of the health care team who are responsible to take care of the old people. So it is important for the nurses to become more familiar with the old people characteristics to be able to take care and meet their needs better. In order to give the better services to seniors, it seems necessary to have got positive attitude about them. The nurses’ attitudes to the old people and the aging phenomena is affected by their personal and religious beliefs, their personal experiences, social culture and the latter one is how much the nurses know about the old people.It is hoped to change the nurses’ attitudes about the seniors by offering them the proper lessons and courses.

Fall is one of the common problems among olds that increases disabilities and mortality in this age group. So it is necessary to review and identify the different fall reasons in elderly in order to decrease the risks of fall and prevent it. This study is aimed to review the literatures related to the fall reasons in elderly. In this study, 40 articles with the words elderly, falling, falls, and aging databases PubMed; IranDoc; Science Direct; Google Scholar; Iranian geriatric journals from 2000 to the present was reviewed comprehensively and in depth. More than 30 percent of the people over the age of 65 falls at least once a year, 37 percent of them were women and the other 25.2 percent were men. Fall reasons which have been known till now were: loss of consciousness, seizures, strokes and sudden environmental problems. In 10 percent of falls the problems as serious injuries to head, hip fractures and subdural bleeding were reported. Fall decreases aged people activities and changes their life style. It is important to take care of them much more and try to provide a safe environment for them to have a healthy elderly population. So, initial standard assessments play a key role in recognizing and identifying the seniors at risk of the fall and supporting them.