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Ecologic Model: Wheel: Sedentary Lifestyle Vices: Smoking Occasional Alcoholic
Ecologic Model: Wheel: Sedentary Lifestyle Vices: Smoking Occasional Alcoholic
SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE
VICES: SMOKING
OCCASIONAL ALCOHOLIC
GENETICS (HEREDITARY)
AGE: 56YRS.OLD
GENDER: MALE
HISTORY OF CVA
SOCIO BIOLOGIC
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Ecologic Model
A. hypothesis
B. predisposing factors
1. The patient:
b. Sex: male
2. Environment
b. Biological:
c. socio economic
C. Ecologic model
We use the Wheel as the ecologic model due to the fact that the
predisposing factors clearly gives us the idea of what specific factors
are to consider regarding the patients present condition.
D. Analysis
Older Adults. People most at risk for stroke are older adults,
particularly those with high blood pressure, who are sedentary,
overweight, smoke, or have diabetes. Older age is also linked with higher
rates of post-stroke dementia.
In most age groups except older adults, stroke is more common in men
than in women.
People who smoke a pack a day have almost two and a half times the
risk for stroke as nonsmokers. Smoking increases both hemorrhagic and
ischemic stroke risk. The risk for stroke may remain elevated for as long
as 14 years after quitting, so the earlier one quits the better.