Prevent breakdown and skin tear

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What significance does skin care have when caring for an elderly patient? The main significance is to prevent breakdown and skin tear that will lead pressure ulcers or open wounds. That then lead to infection and worse conditions of the skin and healing repair. What non pharmacological methods are used to protect the skin of elderly patients both in and out of the hospital? Explain One major prevention to pressure ulcers and breakdown of the skin is rotating the patient from different sides frequently through the shift every 2 hours. This helps the skin be moving and circulation to pass throughout the body more often and the let the skin breathe as well.

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