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Why do some elderly people in their 70s and 80s have recurring medical conditions and need to be hospitalized again soon after they are discharged from the hospital?

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Why do older people need to be hospitalized repeatedly when they are sick? I believe there are several reasons.

The first one.Older people have aging bodies and most will have chronic diseasesThe following are some examples of common diseases. For example, hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic bronchitis and other common diseases. These diseases are called chronic diseases because they require long-term treatment, even lifelong treatment. That's why patients often need to be hospitalized repeatedly for treatment when the disease is not under control.

Second, the reduction of economic pressure. With the current improvement in the standard of living, the reimbursement of the State's new cooperative medical care has to a large extent eased the financial pressure on the people to see a doctor. Individuals have money, see a doctor the state can also give reimbursement, appear uncomfortable, there will be no financial worries, can go directly to the hospital. Especially at present, the poor patients, the state gives unprecedented medical assistance, the poor people hospitalization costs are also mostly affordable.

The third, out of an instinctive desire to surviveThis is human instinct and human nature. Some older people, to put it plainly is "afraid of death", this is a human instinct, but also human nature. Often once the body is not well, coupled with their own age, more thinking to go to the hospital through the conditioning, can make the body healthy, can prolong life. In this hospitalized elderly, some of them have the possibility of oral medication through the home can be treated.

Fourth, misdirection by certain hospitalsAt present, public hospitals are still for-profit institutions, while private hospitals or individual hospitals are even more so. This makes it easy to choose between hospitalization and non-hospitalization for the elderly when they have an attack of disease, and to mobilize the patient to go to the hospital.

What are the benefits of repeated hospitalizations for older adults?

Frequent hospitalization of the elderly. For many people, it is the ability to achieve disease remission or treatment that is able to prolong life.

What are the disadvantages of repeated hospitalization of older adults?

For some older people, there are frequent applications of medications. Instead, it has the opposite effect. Especially at present, we are facing the existence of indiscriminate use of antibiotics, hormones, and proprietary Chinese medicines. So that many older people in hospitalization, at the same time to be affected by adverse drug reactions, and even bring other health problems.

For the elderly, the body is aging and liver and kidney functions are declining. They should be more careful when applying drugs. Elderly people themselves should also understand that "medicine has three poisons", and if they do not have to be hospitalized, they should try not to repeat the infusion treatment.

As a doctor, try to guide as much as possible. I was able to achieve treatment through active daily living interventions, daily oral medication interventions, and thinking of the person first in the face of illness.

In summary, recurrent hospitalization in the elderly is both subjectively necessitated by illness and objectively influenced by other factors. How can elderly patients live better and healthier lives? How to face the disease more correctly? How can hospitals and doctors serve patients better? These many questions need to be answered by the progress of society, the development of civilization, and the popularization of health education.

Surviving with illness. There is a gate fee for hospitalization, 800 for the first time, 500 for the second time, and 0 for the third time, and you are given MRIs and CTs, and even though the reimbursement rate is higher, you have to pay more than 200 per day in medical bills. Although the reimbursement rate is relatively high, you are still asked to pay more than 200 per day for medical expenses (not including the accompanying nurse and living expenses). The hospital is not prepared for this, and the infrastructure is all based on the medical insurance fees and the patients' money. Right?

Why is it that old people in their 70's and 80's are repeatedly hospitalized and soon after they are discharged from the hospital, their illnesses recur? It is because our hospitals have only solved one problem, and that is control! Control your symptoms, and your cause is not solved, so it is treating the symptoms but not the root cause, which is why you repeatedly go to the hospital, in and out and out of the hospital.

With the strengthening of our national strength and the affluence of material life, our life expectancy is also gradually increasing, while many chronic diseases are also gradually appearing in high incidence. Going to the hospital when you are sick and taking medicine when you are sick have become the consensus of a large part of the population. So if you are sick, no matter how much money you spend, even if you lose all your money, we don't care. And we know that the hospital now, it is a headache, foot pain, only symptomatic treatment, it is only to control your symptoms, but the cause of the disease can not help, and people are an organic whole, is interconnected. So we find that once you are hospitalized, once you take the medicine, once you take the injection, your symptoms are under control, disappear, right, then you are discharged, but after a while the disease is back, you have to be hospitalized again, because the cause of your disease is not solved.

And we say to solve your disease? It is to find the cause of your illness, find your cause, and treat the cause, only then can we treat both the symptoms and the root cause.

And more to change our lifestyle in health management to the body a little investment, but many people simply do not have this concept. Discharged from the hospital did not take long to eat and drink again, everything is the same as usual, good scars and forget the pain. How can such a disease be cured?

I know an older sister who had 13 stents put in her heart over a period of seven or eight years, and had to go to the hospital every few months, becoming a regular visitor, and eventually left the community because of over-treatment, so what do you say? What do you think?

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Is the condition is better, in fact, some diseases do not need to be hospitalized, take some medicine to control can be. These months epidemic hospital basically no see the sick, not also over?

Of course, it is better to be hospitalized and taken care of by medical professionals, such as those high cadres, who can live for a few more years, but they have to consume a lot of medical resources, which is not affordable to the general public, and they have to suffer themselves.

I hope that my health insurance savings to others, when it is time to go as soon as possible, my generation did not make a big contribution to the children used to say as long as I am not conscious, let me go, can not be saved!

When I was a resident, I saw an old woman whose highest recorded hospitalization was the 26th, mostly because of acute attacks of pulmonary heart disease. This kind of people are usually okay, but when the seasons change, especially after the fall, the temperature fluctuates, the old disease is easy to commit. Often hospitalized to emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, cardiovascular disease and other people, most of them are older, the body's basic diseases can not adapt to changes in temperature.

Common people, a little bit of money. If there's a problem, just take a look and do your filial duty.

If you are in trouble, boil a pot of hot noodle soup and use it as food and medicine. Wait for the King of Hell to call.

The very few big numbers that lie around, with doctors and nurses running the show, can almost generate revenue for small hospitals. Recognized as a wealthy grandpa. Everyone watch the small ticket, the right number. By the time you're 70 or 80, that's not a good day 😊, build up some mouths to feed.

After the old man, most of them have to have a period of time, and the hospital as a companion, mainly because the people now have money, the country's medical conditions are also good, science is developed, the old people to the hospital can have the hope of life, so the old people love to live a few more years to enjoy the good life, but, old age and sickness is the law of nature, who can not resist, repeated hospitalization every year, the disease and pain, there is no quality of life, their own! Also suffer, there are some vegetative state of the elderly, is more heartbreaking, helpless, the body organs, have been aging, even if repeatedly hospitalized, sometimes good and sometimes bad, I do not know which one will not break through, let nature take its course!

As long as the subject of the old to have experience, now towards laughing at the elderly is not desirable, no need to explain, poor old people, work all their lives, old people still inviting people to inflammation

People to seventy, eighty years old, the body's various functions decline, there will often be a variety of discomfort manifested, will feel their pain here and there itch. In fact, sometimes it is not the body that has problems but the mental health. Many elderly people will compare their current physical condition with that of their youth, and then feel that they can't do this or that, and then they will run to the hospital, soak in the hospital, which is understandable, our culture is different from the West, the mental health of the elderly health is still a gap, the government should take action because the material life and medical standards continue to improve, the aging of the population phenomenon is becoming more prominent, to solve the problem of the mental health of the elderly, the sooner, the better. The sooner the problem is solved, the better.

Because of the money, there is reimbursement to go back and forth to the hospital. It is quite normal to be a little bit sick in old age, but don't go to the hospital if it is not a serious disease. Is medicine three poisons, the elderly into the hospital once to add a point of poison to themselves, the liver and kidneys are extremely unfavorable, the晢 is good, after a while more serious, and have to go into the hospital to the sick, the vicious circle has been to the morgue, which are rich to the trouble. I am 74 years old farmer, because of money, did not enter the hospital and pharmacy, you do not go to find the disease disease will not find you, some old people are not sick to death, is scared to death. There are still people in their 70s and 80s who are still working, like Zhong Nanshan 83 years old, Li Lanjuan 73 years old, there are more 70s and 80s of rural people in the construction site to move bricks or planting, ask to them have a disease. People live in the mood, only a good mood to have a good body, in order to let their children work outside at ease.

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