Page 4 - Rehabilitation for Bedridden Elderly

Life Education

Ebook

Common Issues in Elderly Resulting in Being Bed-

Ridden

Common medical conditions
lead to immobility:

Osteoporosis Stroke Frailty

● Hip fractures ● Major cause Clinical syndrome
are common. of disability in of:
● More likely to adults
occur when worldwide ● Exhaustion
bones are ● Reduces ● Low physical
weakened by quality of life activity
osteoporosis ● Chronic ● Unintentional

or infection condition weight loss
● Grip strength
weakness-
lowest 20 th
percentile
● Slow walking

speed- lowest
th
20 percentile
● Chronic
undernutrition
and chronic
disease

● Inability to rise
from chair 5x

without arms
of chair