Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Traumatic Brain Injury in the Geriatric Patients

Anusha YV^* Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
^*Correspondence: Anusha YV, Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India, Email:

Received: 03-Jan-2022, Manuscript No. jggr -22-15645; Editor assigned: 05-Jan-2022, Pre QC No. P-15645; Reviewed: 19-Jan-2022, QC No. Q-15645; Revised: 24-Jan-2022, Manuscript No. R-15645; Published: 31-Jan-2022, DOI: 10.35248/2167-7182.22.11.595

Opinion

Amusia is a music processing problem that can occur despite normal IQ, verbal memory skills, language skills, and auditory functioning. It is unrelated to musical training. Congenital amusia affects anywhere from 1.5% to 4.2% of the general population. Acquired amusia is a term used in the literature to describe music perception abnormalities following a brain damage or neurosurgical operation. While acquired music perception defects have been studied in the setting of stroke, epilepsy surgery, and aneurysm clipping, few research have looked at deficits in music perception after traumatic brain injury (TBI) Although acquired amusia has been seen in patients with head injuries to varying degrees, these deficiencies have not been examined using rigorous quantitative measurements along with brain imaging data.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a silent pandemic, and elderly people with TBI are an apparently silent population within this silent epidemic. Although it is well understood that older age has a negative impact on outcome following TBI, studies clarifying why this is so, as well as information on age-appropriate therapy of senior TBI patients, are scarce. Moreover, despite the fact that geriatric and neurotrauma researchers have identified the prognostic significance of preadmission functional ability, the presence of comorbidities, sex, and other factors such as cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) on recovery after illness or injury in older adults with TBI, these variables have received little attention in older adults with TBI. The exclusion of these factors in neuroscience research could explain why predicting outcomes and providing care to older adults with TBI is so difficult. The current "one-size-fits-all" approach to TBI management typically ignores the special problems of the elderly. The epidemiology of TBI in older people and the factors that influence patient outcomes are examined in this study, with a focus on the implications of current information and recommendations for further research and therapeutic inquiry. Age has long been recognised as a predictor of poor TBI prognosis on its own. The mechanism through which this occurs is unknown. Because studies have been unable to discover useful clinical predictors of lesion formation, head CT scans are now recommended for all patients aged 65 and up who have neurological symptoms and signs or a history of head trauma.

Older persons with moderate TBI have a much greater mortality rate than their younger counterparts. Although a single study found that adults aged 60 and older with mild TBI had significantly higher functioning (P.05) on the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) at one month after injury than younger people with mild TBI, significance was lost when work status was included. Investigations into impairment after TBI have discovered evidence that older adult TBI survivors are more dependent than younger survivors, using global outcome measures such as the GOS and the Functional Independence Measure [1-5].

As a result, older people who have suffered a TBI have longer hospital stays and are more prone to have delayed neurological disability. As a result of their extended hospital stays, the cost of their care is substantially higher. Despite having lower injury severity scores and higher mean GCS scores than their younger peers, they had longer stays. When older TBI patients are referred to inpatient rehabilitation facilities, their stays are longer, which raises costs. The trauma literature has shed additional light on the outcomes of older people who have suffered a TBI. Elder trauma patients required more medical and specialised consultations for each injury and had more complications while in the hospital than their younger injured colleagues. Given that older adults demonstrate slower rates of functional change after recovery from TBI, the focus on early outcome time points (e.g., discharge) in currently available outcome studies in older adult TBI patients is a limitation. This is an important consideration in future intervention and study design.

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