Application of artificial sunlight for the elderly as a possible environmental nursing practice
| Autor: | Kuang-Tzu Huang, Kanae Iida, Mashiko Kai, Shigeru Goto, Seiko I, Simon Peter Bahau, Eiko Inoue, Takeshi Goto, Li-Wen Hsu, I-Hsuan Chen, Chao-Long Chen, Hideki Kai, Kayoko Yuyama, Omori Naoya, Yuki Takaoka, Roger Lord, Eriko Tane, King-Wah Chiu, Ding-Wei Chen, Wataru Tsuruta, Chieko Wano, Syuji Sato, Toshiaki Nakano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Nursing practice
Gerontology Environmental Nursing business.industry Economic shortage Phototherapy Elderly People Care setting 03 medical and health sciences Artificial Sunlight 0302 clinical medicine Lighting for the elderly 030502 gerontology Intensive care Health care Medicine 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Vitamin D 0305 other medical science business Beneficial effects Healthy longevity |
| Popis: | Aging and aged societies have arrived in many countries where significant development of medicine and the economy has been achieved. Japan is a highly aged society with a shortage of carers both at home and in long-term care settings. In fact, more persons of advanced age who do not need intensive care in hospitals strongly desire health care to be delivered in their own home with their family. Environmental nursing practice, which means that nurses improve the environment of patients or the elderly properly in accordance with healthcare considerations, is currently playing a more important role, not only to prevent the elderly from contracting various diseases, but also to provide a facility for supporting an aged person to live a fulfilling life, preferably one that includes independence. This approach will lead to a reduction in medical expenditure by increasing the number of aged people with healthy longevity without the need for hospitalization or intensive care. This short communication focuses on healthy lighting for the elderly based on our research and experience regarding the beneficial effects of artificial sunlight on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), asthma and food allergy, and ulcerative colitis in experimental animal models and clinical settings. Then, we review other studies and discuss how artificial sunlight would be useful for the elderly as one of the environmental nursing practices. Keywords: Artificial Sunlight, Phototherapy, Elderly People, Environmental Nursing, Vitamin D |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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