scholarly journals Post intensive care syndrome across the life course: Looking to the future of paediatric and adult critical care survivorship

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-66
Author(s):  
Dylan Flaws ◽  
Joseph C. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Life Course ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Post Intensive Care Syndrome

Testimonies in Understanding the Psychological and Cognitive Problems Faced by Survivors of Critical Illness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Jones ◽  
Peter Gibb ◽  
Ramona O. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Critical Illness ◽  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Impaired Memory ◽  
Cognitive Problems ◽  
Substantial Morbidity ◽  
Post Intensive Care Syndrome

Millions of patients are treated in intensive care units (ICUs) each year, and the number of survivors is growing as a result of advances in critical care medicine. Unfortunately, many survivors of critical illness have substantial morbidity. Physical, psychological, and cognitive impairments are particularly common—so much so that a group of clinicians coined the term “post-intensive care syndrome” (PICS) to help raise awareness. Patients surviving critical illnesses are often quite weak, and physical therapy, hopefully starting in the ICU, is vital. But weakness is only one of the problems critical-illness survivors and their loved ones face. Unfortunately, many survivors are left with cognitive impairment (e.g., impaired memory, attention, and executive functioning), as well as distress-related psychiatric phenomena such as posttraumatic stress and depression. Importantly, these problems are not limited to adult patients, and loved ones also suffer. In this chapter the authors describe their personal journeys in coming to understand the suffering and issues that critical-illness survivors and their families face.

Age-Differentiated vs. Age-Integrated: Neoliberal Policy and the Future of the Life Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Dannefer ◽  
Jielu Lin ◽  
George Gonos
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Life Course

A new morning?

Focaal ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (49) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharika Thiranagama
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
At Home

Charting the life course of Malathi, a young Sri Lankan Tamil woman, this article attempts to discuss the ways in which people and places in Sri Lanka are remade through experiences of violence. The article suggests moving away from a notion of 'home' as fixed on one place; instead, it considers the movement of people between different places. Further, it suggests that senses of home are also embedded within uneasy, constantly negotiated relationships with those people with whom we feel at home. Moreover, the article argues that ideas about 'the future' as equally as 'the past' inform the possibility of being at home.

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