Promoting Healthy Aging Assignment
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Promoting Healthy Aging Assignment
Added on 2021-06-17
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Running head: PROMOTING HEALTHY AGEINGPromoting Healthy AgeingName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
1PROMOTING HEALTHY AGEINGAccording to Bousquet et al. (2015), health is a multi-dimensional concept that dealswith both the physical and mental health of the person. The concept of active and healthyageing was first proposed by World Health Organisation towards the process of optimizingthe opportunities of health and thereby enhancing the quality of life of the people as they age.According to WHO (2012), the concept of healthy ageing signifies the process of developingand maintaining the standard functional ability that facilitates well-being in the later stages oflife. The population in Australia is ageing fast and this associated with the increase in the costof the medical care and other care giving process to the older group of population Morgan etal. (2012). The following essay aims to analyse the process of interview conduction with anperson more than 50 years of age along with a detailed examination of the health issuescreating barriers towards the process of healthy ageing. Consider the patient situationThe interview was conducted with a 55 year old female (Mrs. X: hypothetical) wholives with her son and is suffering from depression. I have chosen her home for theconduction of interview and not her clinic. The reason behind this is, according to Sivell et al.(2015), conducting interview under a comfortable and previously known set-up of theinterview helps in gaining accurate and authentic response moreover, and it also helps todecrease the stress factor and anxiety among the older group of people. I have alsoconducted the interview in the presence of her son. According Doody, Slevin and Taggart(2013), conducting interview of an older people under the presence of a family members helpto gather exact information. I conducted the interview in the living area of the house as selected by my client whopreferred sit over the sofa during the entire interview process as she said it is the mostfavourite place in her room. The main techniques used for data collection is recording her
2PROMOTING HEALTHY AGEINGentire interview transcript in a recorder along with writing done some crucial quotes which Ifelt important for analysing the main health issues. I also took consent from Mrs. X beforeinitiation of the interview via stating the purpose of the interview along with other details likeher identity will be kept confidential and she is allowed to leave the process of interview atany point of time (Kleinpell et al., 2014). Collection of cues and informationMy overall experience of conducting the interview was very interactive that alsoprovided me learning experience in dealing with the older group of patients’ population.However, initially, she was taking time to respond to my questions or rather was not open tome. But my friendly gestures helped her to share her comfort zone with me. The main areaswhich are given profuse importance while conducting the interview include active listening,sympathizing with the client’s condition along with the maintenance of non-verbalcommunication like posture, eye contact and facial expression so that the interviewee mayfeel that interviewer is listening to each and every words articulated by her (Doody, Slevin &Taggart, 2013). Moreover, taking her age into consideration, at times she was speaking sosofetely that it was becoming difficult for me to understand her words but I did not asked herto repeat her sentence as it might affect her autonomy. I rather tried to listen to her each andevery word attentively along with recording her speech and then trying to comprehend eachand every sentence in details. Process informationThe main factors which were analysed while conducting the interview includes Mrs.X is suffering from lack of companionship after she lost her husband. This is evident fromher quotes, “after my husband passed away, I feel extremely lonely and my son also remainsbusy with his work and hardly can make time for me”. Moreover while telling the incidence
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