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Symposium

Health Sciences

Impact of Older Adult Patients and Caregiver Attitudes and Perceptions and Local Culture on In-Hospital Mobility

Saturday, November 16, 2024
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
Location: Room 615
CE: 1.5

Older adults commonly lose functional ability during a hospital stay, often cause by limited ambulation. This phenomenon has been identified globally as a hospital associated disability (HAD). Multiple barriers related to how care is delivered in hospitals have been identified that prevent hospital staff from getting patients up to walk. Only recently have studies explored other factors that may prevent or influence whether older patients ambulate, including older adults’ experiences and perceptions of in-hospital ambulation, the impact of patient and or family caregiver attitudes on in-hospital mobility, and influence of local unit culture on patient mobility. This symposium will present results from hospitalized older adult mobility studies conducted in 3 countries. Paper 1 will describe older adult patient perceived Value for Walking during hospitalization; paper 2 will discuss the impact of patient and family attitudes on patient mobility; paper 3 will present how diversity and cultural difference of family caregivers impacts patient mobility; and paper 4 will describe how local unit culture mediates mobility of older adult patients. HAD in older adults is a global health epidemic. Designing effective person-centered mobility interventions need to be multifactorial and include patient and family/ caregiver perspective and unit culture in order to improve older adult patient ambulation and decrease the incidence of HAD. Additional research is needed to understand the impact of patient and family caregiver factors and local unit culture on whether older adult patients are engaged in walking during their hospital stay.

Learning Objectives:

  • describe the relationship between family caregiver attitudes and whether older adult patients walk during a hospital stay
  • identify three factors that influence patient value of walking during a hospital stay
  • describe the complicated relationship between perceptions of older adult patients and their caregivers on in-hospital mobility

Presentations:

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    How Older Adult Patients Perceive the Importance of Ambulation During Hospitalization

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Barbara J. King, PhD, RN, FAAN (she/her/hers) – UW-Madison

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Older Adults and Caregivers' Attitudes Toward Mobility and In-Hospital Mobility Relationships

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Anna Zisberg, PhD, RN, FAAN, GSAFAAN (she/her/hers) – University of Haifa

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Cultural Differences in Caregivers' Attitudes Toward In-Hospital Mobility of Older Adults

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Ksenya Shulyaev, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Haifa

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM PST
    Toward an Understanding of In-Hospital Inactivity

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Mette Merete Pedersen, PT, MHSc, PhD (she/her/hers) – Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre