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Hi, welcome to our series
on Geriatric Nursing.
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Now this one is a little different.
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In this series, we talk about
age related changes in health.
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But in this particular part
of the series,
we're going to look at bone growth
across the lifespan.
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So we're going to teach you about
what happens to your bones
from birth,
all the way through
a geriatric clients age.
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So take a look at this picture.
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I got to put this in here because
this is my niece, her husband,
and our brand new baby
in our family.
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His name is Calvin.
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So, I want you to start
thinking about
what happens to our bones
as we age from Calvin's age?
Is he adorable in that
little Santa hat or what?
And as the bones changed through
Haley, and his dad, Marcus's age,
So you're ready?
Let's look at bone growth across.
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Now, when I got to talk to my niece,
right after she delivered the baby.
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It's incredible to me
to think that,
Calvin had just
been inside her body
a few minutes
before we got to talk.
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I mean,
look at this all folded up,
and what we call,
the fetal position.
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Can you imagine if you tried to get
in this tighter position now?
Yeah, it wouldn't work.
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Now, when we're looking
at geriatric clients,
it's going to be
an even bigger deal.
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So let's take something simple,
like have you changed a diaper
of a baby?
When you lay them on their back,
it's an easy thing,
just a fold their little toes
right up to their nose, right?
They are that flexible.
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And I'm going to introduce you
to our friend Enrique
who's from our
geriatric nursing series.
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And we use two friends,
Jose and Enrique.
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Now, you won't see Jose
in this series right now.
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But Enrique is our example of
what happens when someone's aging,
but they also have comorbidities.
They have other disease processes.
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So in the rest of our series,
you'll see Jose,
he's got a big smile,
he's super active,
and he has only experienced
the changes in aging
that are normal.
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Poor Enrique has had
a much rougher go.
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In fact, you'll see
he has a cane.
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He doesn't have much mobility.
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So we are going to compare
the baby's experience
and you can pretend
that's baby Calvin and Enrique
to kind of show you how
the differences are, as we age.
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Now, these are two extremes,
a baby and then a geriatric client
who's had comorbidities.
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But can you imagine now,
we wouldn't lay Enrique down
on his back
and try and touch his toes
to his nose, right? That's silly.
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But Jose would be able to
bend over and touch his toes.
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Enrique,
that would not even be safe.
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In fact,
someone in Enrique's health,
it's difficult for them
to put their socks on,
to put their shoes on
because they are not very flexible,
and they lose their balance,
extremely easily.
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So, that's the difference, right?
We got a baby who we could be
totally flexible,
but if we tried to do the same
with Enrique,
we would have a problem
because there's
a big difference between
the actual bones of a baby
and a patient who ages.
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Let's take a look at that.
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So you understand
what I'm talking about.
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Because bones go through a
number of changes as they grow.
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So when babies like Calvin are born,
their bones are mostly cartilage.
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That's why they're so flexible,
because cartilage,
it's soft, and it's flexible.
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But as babies grow,
the cartilage in their bone grows,
and we've got some really
cool graphics for you
to show you how this works.
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So over time, and with a
little help from calcium,
the bones are going to replace
the cartilage
in a process called ossification.
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Okay, so when bones are replacing,
they're replacing the cartilage,
you don't have that flexibility,
more they come strong,
and that's what the calcium
does in the process.
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Okay, now we're gonna give you some
pretty cool pictures for you to see
and look at how the bones look.
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And now you see the
changes that they're made.