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A current doctor talks
Why elderly people should not be hospitalized
Kim Beom-seok (Professor, Seoul National University Cancer Hospital)
Personally, I don’t like being hospitalized.
It might seem strange that the doctor doesn’t like being hospitalized.
There is, but
If you think about it a little, there are people who like being hospitalized in the world.
Where are you?
No pain and no need to be hospitalized
It is the best.
But things change a bit when you become a cancer patient. As soon as I first came to the outpatient clinic
There are also patients who ask to be hospitalized first.
Chemotherapy, which can be done in an outpatient setting in just 30 minutes, can be done in the hospital
Some even ask to be allowed to do so.
Okay, even if I tell you to leave the hospital,
Some patients do not want to be discharged.
They say you can go home after discharge, but instead go to a nursing hospital.
There are many cases.
In particular, cancer patients
This is the case.

Their stories are diverse.
Because the children work together
There is no one at home to help me.
I feel anxious at home and feel safe at the hospital. Nearby nursing hospital has facilities
It’s going well
There are etc.
But the elderly, especially those in their eighties
Nursing car for middle-aged seniors
When you are admitted to the hospital
Just because you are hospitalized
There are many things that have gone bad.
By being admitted to the hospital
There are many cases where people pass away after resurrecting their names.
The reason is this.
First of all, when you are admitted to the hospital, space is limited.
If you’re at home, just take it easy
Go outside the house
I sit in the living room too.
You’re sitting on the sofa too
To go to the bathroom and eat
Coming to the kitchen, etc.
I do small activities.

But if you are admitted to the hospital
Even if it is a 7-person room.
There is no space.
Especially in a shared room, the space is limited to the bed.
All I can do is lie in bed
There becomes nothing to do.
Older people in a new environment
Because I’m not good at adapting,
I try not to go for walks in the hallways in the hospital.
Just lying in bed all day
There is nothing to do and I am bored.
I can’t even meet my family or friends
I get depressed because I can’t do it.
Since there is only Nuwi, I can’t digest it and my appetite is poor.
The amount of food will also naturally decrease.
If you don’t have anything to do, just lie in bed
You lose muscle in your legs.
Even ordinary young people
If you stay in bed for just 2 weeks
All the muscles in my legs are gone
I can’t get up.
Older people lose muscle quickly
It is very difficult to rebuild muscle that has been lost.

If I have to lie down to have a bowel movement, I don’t even have enough strength in my stomach.
I also feel sorry for the caregiver who has to clean up the poop.
It’s especially annoying when I have diarrhea.
Showing your anus to someone
Asking someone to wipe their face with a wet tissue is a bit of a loss of self-esteem.
It’s not about falling.
I am a completely useless person
It feels like it’s done.
The problem isn’t just this one:
Since all the muscles in the body are lost, even the swallowing muscles are not functional.
Cases can occur when eating separately.
This will cause lung inflammation and you should not eat it by mouth from now on.
They say it’s possible, so they put the rope in.
As the bean string continues to irritate my throat, my throat feels stuffy and painful.
Then, while I was sleeping, I unconsciously
I can’t pull it off and pull it out.
Then the doctor comes and cuts the festoon and bruises again.
Flowering again that I can’t give back,
This time, I won’t be able to remove the festoon strings.
Hands and feet tied.

Pee line, urinary tract, diaper.
If you are tied up while cold,
There is no way my mind will become sane.
Then please let me go
I end up screaming
People come to us and say they are experiencing delirium symptoms, and we give them delirium medication.
When people take delirium tremens, they feel lethargic and just sleep.
It really seems like a good thing.
If you start drumming like that
He dies after not being able to survive for a month or two.
Especially for elderly people in their mid-80s, no matter how good their ear skills are,
That’s right.
Even though it may sound harsh,
That’s the reality.
It’s a good thing I don’t have to go to the intensive care unit.
The starting point of all these saddals is hospitalization.
Even if they are not hospitalized, there are people who have great potential.
Admitted to the hospital for convalescence
Due to lying down,
It will be rebuilt.
Of course, Ui Ro-jin did his best and his family also did their best.
But the old man doesn’t want to go back.

But is this really righteousness?
Is this really misleading?
Families talk.
Even just a month ago, he was distant. Of course.
Even though I was old until a month ago, I was able to do my best at home.
Let’s get along.
However, when he was admitted to the hospital, things suddenly changed.
Of course, there are individual differences for each person, and each hospital has facilities or facilities.
Because the programs are different, each hospital is different.
Talk in general terms
There are difficulties
There are many cases where that is not the case.
The example above is a bit excessive.
You may hear it.
But in reality, this is a common occurrence.
The righteous do not often talk about these results.
Then what should I do?
If you ask me if the alternative is running, I have nothing to say.
I really can’t take care of it at home, so the only option is hospitalization.
Some people have no alternative.

It is also not wise to blindly curse people not to be hospitalized.
be not.
However, just because it’s a hospital doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
I just want to.
In the end, you have to maintain your daily life as much as possible.
At least eat, wash, and go to the bathroom
Work must be maintained as much as possible until the last moment.
As I get really old, I have no choice but to live my life on my own.
It becomes difficult
When the moment comes
At that time, I even thought about being admitted to the hospital.
Now is the time to say goodbye to the old man.
We need to take them to the hospital with that in mind.
And how to maintain the minimum level of human dignity.
You should discuss this with the medical staff in advance.
My family won’t be able to go out. my family
I’m not going to the intensive care unit.
I won’t do a blood test.
These things need to be decided in advance.
When you tell a story like this, most righteous people say something.

Why don’t you want to get a treatment frame?
If you’re going to do that, take her back home and you’ll hear stories like this.
It happens.
But in my personal opinion
A family that discusses this in advance is a family that gives up on patients.
Rather, it is a family that truly cares for the patient.
Elderly people in their mid-80s
to the hospital as much as possible
So that you don’t have to be hospitalized
I keep supporting it at home and it hurts.
Make me practice
Chew your meal slowly and thoroughly
So that you can eat it
Are you urinating well?
It’s really important to check.
The hospital wasn’t a very good place.