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NUR2402 - Promoting healthy ageing - Assignment

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Edith Cowan University

   

Healthy Ageing (NUR2402)

   

Added on  2020-03-02

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This assignment will discuss the concepts explored in Module 1 including environment and participation, to examine other factors which influence healthy ageing. It will challenge the view that older people are dependent and unproductive.

NUR2402 - Promoting healthy ageing - Assignment

   

Edith Cowan University

   

Healthy Ageing (NUR2402)

   Added on 2020-03-02

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Discussion (exercise 2.2 module 2)Promotion of successful agingSuccessful aging is meant to improve the quality of life for the aging population. Nurses have the responsibility to mitigate how a disease progresses in the life of the elderly can be managed. In this case, as a nurse, I have the responsibility to prevent and manage disease, maintaining a healthy mental function and also ensuring that the elderly maintain a good physicalfunction. For instance, I will recommend that the elderly to eat the right diet and exercise a lot to improve their quality of life. In this case, I will encourage the elderly to eat healthy, avoid tobacco and alcohol, and to maintain an optimum weight through exercise. In addition, I will educate them on how to manage stress, have positivity in life, good social interaction, and maintain a spiritual life (Moffitt, Belsky, Danese, Poulton & Caspi, 2017). By doing so, one could be said to have aged successfully. Thus, for one to age successfully, they must free from disability and disease, have high cognitive and physical function and also a continued participation in productive and social activities. , Further, the elderly are said to be successfully aging when they use their mental and physical resources to cover up their limitation. Most of the old people in our communities are not allowed to age successfully as they continue caring out hard activities that lead them to develop diseases that lead to their demise. Therefore, as a nurse, I will encourage the people around the elderly people to support them in all ways possible in order to ensure that they age successfully (Lanna, Escors, Gilroy & Akbar, 2017).Opportunities offered by an ageing generationLeadership is one of the main opportunity that the ageing population offers nurses. The nursing education emphasizes on leadership, critical thinking, and communication. As this abilities are
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