Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

• Demographics, life time education and career/employment

• Two most significant (positive) times in their lives

• What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?

• Two personal strengths

• Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills

  • Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now

• Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?

• Support the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale.pdf

• Support the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf

• Perform a Mini Mental State Exam.pdf and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf (attach here)

• Perform a Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf

• Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient stress questionnaire and the mini mental status exam

• Discuss your older adult’s level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?

• Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.  

• Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.