Nursing Care for Senior Citizens

The assignment focuses on the significance of nursing care for elderly people, highlighting their exclusive needs for better health and wellbeing. It mentions the benefits and restrictions faced by seniors, such as increased stress levels, memory loss, and reduced social interaction. The report also emphasizes the importance of family support in maintaining their overall well-being.

Person cantered care
planning study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
STEP 1.............................................................................................................................................1
Discussion with the old person...............................................................................................1
STEP 2.............................................................................................................................................1
Key purpose............................................................................................................................1
STEP 3.............................................................................................................................................2
1. Changes noticed after getting old.......................................................................................2
2. Best things of getting old....................................................................................................2
3. Hardest thing of getting old................................................................................................3
4. Importance in present and future........................................................................................4
5. Health and well being details.............................................................................................4
STEP 5.............................................................................................................................................4
Literature review....................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION AND RESULT......................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
STEP 4.............................................................................................................................................8
Appendix 1.......................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Person centred care planning is the service approach by which care providers tries to find
the needs and wants of the clients and then serve them services accordingly. This approach states
that care providers works according to customer rather than organisation. It offers an opportunity
to people to enter into a genuine partnership with the care system to improve the overall quality
and effectiveness of care (Adam, 2017). Models of person centred care planning was initially
developed and found effective for use with people with developmental disabilities in the 1980's.
When it comes to the ageing support, old people face lots of problems and illness when they are
getting older. This is the reason these people need care service providers so that they can take
care of their heath and reduce the different types of illness. The report is going to cover the
discussion with one old person to whom different questions have been asked regarding the
ageing support.
STEP 1
Discussion with the old person
The discussion is being done with the XYZ person who is 65-year-old who is getting
older and facing lots of challenges as well as advantages when he is getting older. The first
question were being asked in regard to attain introductory view about the person and what he
had noticed when he is getting older (Burke and et.al., 2015). The person has stated that his age
is 65 and he has noticed several changes when he is getting older, that are as follows
Communication Changes with Typical Ageing the person is getting older, there are several
changes that had taken place in the communication, this is because of change in the physical
health, depression and cognitive decline. The changes take place in hearing, voice and speech
processes. Grammatical judgement and repetition ability are relatively stable with age;
comprehension of complex utterances and naming may decline. With that, he stated that when he
speaks his voice subtle and gradual. Managing the social roles has been known that when the
person is getting older, he or she is not able to have more interaction. Thus, it could be said that
social life or interaction reduces (Lehne and Rosenthal, 2014).
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STEP 2
Key purpose
The key purpose of making the assignment to has proper discussion with the old person
in order to find that what he or she feels when getting old and what are the different changes. In
addition, it talks about the different best things that were going best when he or she is getting old
(Ausserhofer and et.al., 2014). With that, it is needed to find about the hardest activities that are
going when the person is growing older. It will provide detailed understanding about important
goals for the future and how these goals can be achieved by an individual.
STEP 3
1. Changes noticed after getting old.
The person has stated that few years back he used to meet his friends on weekly basis
which has reduced to monthly basis. This is another change he has noticed when getting older.
Enhancement of experience by the person is getting older, he has gained lots of experience, this
is because during his life he had faced the different challenges and from those challenges, he has
gained the knowledge that how to face with the different problems.
2. Best things of getting old.
Another question which has been asked about the what are the best things that had
happened when the person is getting older, the person has stated that there are several positive
things that have been changed when the person is getting older, that are as follows:
Not worrying as much about things will turn out: When the person has passed the age of 50, then
he or she does not think as much as the young person thinks (Hockenberry and Wilson, 2014).
The person does not ask such question from himself such as will I find the right life partner?
Will I have kids? Will everything be okay? The person has stated that he does not think much
and this helps him to reduce the stress in his life. More mature relationships have been found that
old person does not engage in the fights, they know how much priority is to be given to the
person to whom he is interactive. Maturity level increases with the age and after the age of 50,
person do not engage in such activities which cause fights and dispute. This will help him to
create the mature relationships (Carthon and et.al., 2015).You stop caring what others think
When the person has crossed the age of 55, he or she does not think more for others that what
they think for him or her. The person has stated that he has no impact of other's perception over
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his life and decision because he finds that he is experienced enough to take the better decision
which is beneficial to him.
Fewer major life decisions to make: Most of the major decisions are taken after the age of 50
such as support to the family, property distribution, child career etc. This can be called as the
positive change that have been identified when the person is getting older (Day and et.al., 2014).
3. Hardest thing of getting old
In this case, individual need proper support from the nursing organisation so that they
can divert their behaviour to the positive respond. The person who getting older day by day,
need proper support from the nursing organisation, this is because they have gained huge
knowledge and experience which they want to implement in their day to day life. When their
thoughts and ideas are not implemented, they get frustration. In such situation they need
guidance from the nursing organisation so that they can control their frustration.
Other than that, the question that has been asked to the person by the nursing
organisation is about the negative impact or challenges that are faced by him when he is getting
older; the negative impacts are as follows:
Memory and remembrance: This is the biggest disadvantage when the person is getting older.
After the age of 60, person starts forgetting different things. Even some person also thinks
whether he or she had taken the lunch or not? This may happen when the person is getting older.
So, it is the biggest challenge for the older person to remember the information for the long
period. Health issues is another biggest disadvantage which the person face when he or she is
getting older. The person has stated that he is facing the problem of stress and this may cause the
reason for his diabetes and other disease (Douglas and et.al., 2014). So, he has stated that there
are several health issues which has faced by the old person which is the biggest disadvantages
Reduce in social interaction has been known that when the person feels ill, he does not like to
interact with the people rather they would like to sit at those places where he or she finds
silences (Hockenberry and Wilson, 2014). When the person is getting older, he has to face the
different heath issues and this is the reason they decrease the interaction with the other people
and this reduce the social life of the old people. As the individual is facing lots of issue, when he
is getting older. Such as fade of memory, so the individual need proper care from the nursing
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organisation so that different activities can be conducted by them in order to maintain their
memory.
4. Importance in present and future.
Another question that have been asked from the person is regarding key needs and
resources required to meet the future expectations (James, Nelson and Ashwill, 2014). And what
he wants to share about his health and well-being. The person has stated that there are several
things that are important for him now and for the future, that are as follows such as the need to
take care of his heath knows that there are several health issues that are faced by the individual
when he or she is getting so he need to avoid those things that can cause ill with that he need
support from the health and care providers to take care of him.
5. Health and well being details
Support from family is being known that social life of the person decreases when he is getting
old, so he has stated that he need support from their family members in order to have
communication and interaction (Finkelman, 2015).
STEP 5
Literature review
According to the view of Lehne and Rosenthal (2014) ageing is the process by which
person is getting older it is being referred to the human beings, many animals and fungi, whereas
for example bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially immortal. When
it comes to the human being, ageing causes the different challenges as well as it serves the
different advantages to the individual. When it comes to the advantages at the time of ageing,
then there are different benefits such as more mature relationships, one stops caring about what
others think and fewer major life decisions to make etc.
In the contradicting view of Hockenberry and Wilson (2014) ageing cause different
disadvantages such as reduce in social connection, raise in health issues, reduction in memory
etc. This causes stress and frustration in the old people. This is the reason they need support
from the different people such as their friends, family members, health and social care people
etc.
According to the view of (Lehne and Rosenthal, 2014) nursing organisation plays very
significant role when the individual is getting older. There are several problems that are faced by
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the individual when he or she is getting older such as disease, frustration etc. in order to
minimise these effects, nursing organisation need to conduct such activities so that these issues
can be solved.
CONCLUSION AND RESULT
It can be concluded from the study that there are several benefits that the person have
when he is getting older such as priority given to him by the family members, support from the
family members, care given by the health and social organisation, fewer major life decisions to
make, he has stops caring what others think, more mature relationships, enhancement of
experience, managing the social roles etc. Other than that, different challenges have been faced
by the person when the ageing process is going on such as memory and remembrance, health
issues, reduce in social interaction etc.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Adam, S., 2017. Critical care nursing: science and practice. Oxford University Press.
Ausserhofer, D. and et.al., 2014. Prevalence, patterns and predictors of nursing care left undone
in European hospitals: results from the multicountry cross-sectional RN4CAST
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Burke, K.M. and et.al., 2015. Medical-surgical nursing care. Prentice Hall.
Carthon, J.M.B. and et.al., 2015. The quality of hospital work environments and missed nursing
care is linked to heart failure readmissions: A cross-sectional study of US hospitals. BMJ
Qual Saf, pp.bmjqs-2014.
Day, S. and et.al., 2014. Baseline standards for paediatric oncology nursing care in low to
middle income countries: position statement of the SIOP PODC Nursing Working
Group. The Lancet Oncology. 15(7). pp.681-682.
Douglas, M.K. and et.al., 2014. Guidelines for implementing culturally competent nursing
care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 25(2). pp.109-121.
Finkelman, A., 2015. Leadership and Management in Nursing: Core Competencies for Quality
Care. Pearson.
Hockenberry, M.J. and Wilson, D., 2014. Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children-E-Book.
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James, S.R., Nelson, K. and Ashwill, J., 2014. Nursing Care of Children-E-Book: Principles and
Practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Lehne, R.A. and Rosenthal, L., 2014. Pharmacology for Nursing Care-E-Book. Elsevier Health
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STEP 4
Appendix 1
From the report, it can be said that the older persons need more care for a better health and well
being by the nursing care. From the telephonic conversation with an old man of 65 years, we can
say that:
 An old person needs exclusive care for a better health condition and well being. He or
she must get a regular medical check up and support by the nursing care.
 He or she must be able to adapt the physical, mental, emotional and psychological
changes that he or she underwent when one gets old.
 There have been some benefits and some restrictions he or she faces while undergoing
the old age.
 The benefits that an individual get after getting old is that there is no tension about how
the things in the future will go, what will be the consequences and how he or she will
tackle it.
 The maturity level of the person increase as he or she gets old. He or she doesn't think
about the opinions of others.
 But the major problem faced by a senior citizen or an old person is that the stress level
increases as he or she gets old due to diseases.
 Also, many people start losing their memories and ability to do certain works.
 The loss or reduction in the social interaction with family and friends make them feel
lonely and unsecure.
 Many old people agreed on making an effort to achieve the things they used to deny or
delay in their young age.
 They want a better future and want to have a healthy life style.
 They need the support of family members and friends to be healthy and maintain their
well being.
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