Case Study Assessment: Nutritional Therapeutics 1, CAM306A

This case study focuses on the holistic assessment and nutritional treatment plan for a patient named Sally. The assessment identifies key contributing factors to Sally's health, including her age, medical history, and use of over-the-counter drugs. The study outlines a detailed treatment plan, differentiating between short-term and long-term goals, and specifying actions, modalities, and expected outcomes. The plan addresses the patient's symptoms and aims to improve her quality of life through dietary adjustments, exercise, pain management, and social support. The study incorporates evidence-based research and traditional holistic nutritional understanding to develop a comprehensive approach to managing Sally's health. The assignment includes a dietary prescription, evaluating relevant research to support the nutritional interventions.

Running head: ASSESSMENT BRIEF CASE STUDY 1
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Assessment Brief Case Study 1
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation

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Holistic Assessment of the patient
Sally’s current State of health is wanting. Her old age, like in any other old people
suggest that a lot of unexpected conditions that comes because of lack of strength and aging body
becomes very vulnerable to various body illnesses and conditions particularly of the old age.
Generally, her eating lifestyle is recommendable that now this it quite evident that she is always
having a balanced diet even though she is in her old age (a stage that most people don’t give a
close attention on dietary intake. Her medical history indicates that she has ever had glandular
fever while she was a teenager and for several years, would always feel fatigue. Sally has been
using over the counter drugs (painkillers) and thus it is evident that she has been experiencing
pain but chose to ignore until it was too late.
Key contributing factors
One of the key contributing factor to the patient’s state of health is age. According to
Grøn (2016), age has a big role to play in the current state of everyone. Elderly people tend to
become vulnerable to some if the common infections, illnesses that are common in old age
unlike the young men. For this reason, Grigoryeva et al., 2019) is right in saying old age is a
stage with a lot of compromises. The other contributing factor is medical history. (Del Boca &
Venturini, 2016). Cardiovascular diseases are hereditary, since her parents had some of these
diseases it is likely that she would also have. Lastly, the use of unrecommended drug
prescription would also have contributed majorly to her state of health. It is evident that Sally
would use prescribed Panadol medications whenever she would feel headaches. As Gilleard
(2017) note, whenever there is some pain in the body that is always relieved by some pain killers
on short term basis, it means there is an underlying problem that only continually grows in bits

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Development of treatment plan
Priorit
y
WHAT/
GOAL (as a
clinician
what are you
trying to do?)
WHERE
(tissues/
system)
HOW – (What
are the
mechanisms of
action/physiolo
gy that you are
seeking to
modify?)
OUTCO
ME (how
will
patient
feel?)
Actions
(herbal,
nutrition
al,
emotiona
l)
MODALIT
Y (what
modalities
are you
going to
use – this
is not
actual
therapeutic
s)
Short
term
Alleviate
symptoms of
the
concerning
issue.
Check on the
daily
diet/appropri
ate diet.
Circulatory
system
Overall body
Use of drugs
Food that will
help maintain
sugar level
Normal
Healthy
Proper
adherenc
e to
prescribe
d drugs
Individual
therapy

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Promotion of
daily usual
exercise.
Pain
management.
Headache
management
Moving body
parts
Joints and all
other body
parts
Sweating to
breakdown
excess sugars
and fats
To reduce the
rate of
metabolic
reactions
because of
pain
Maintain
normal
weight
Relief
and
social
support
from the
children
Long
term
aims
To preserve
the gains
made during
the acute
treatment.
Improve
quality of life
General body
parts and
body organs
Specific body
parts and
systems like
circulatory
system
Avoiding risky
behaviors
Normal
functioning of
the body parts
and systems
Wellness
and
normalcy
Normalcy
Proper
adherenc
e to
prescribe
d drugs
and
social
support
from the
children
Family
therapy
(together
with the
children)

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References
Grøn, L. (2016). Old age and vulnerability between first, second and third person perspectives.
Ethnographic explorations of aging in contemporary Denmark. Journal of aging
studies, 39, 21-30.

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Grigoryeva, I., Vidiasova, L., Dmitrieva, A., & Sergeyeva, O. (2019). Health, Adaptationary
Medicine, or Healing Sicknesses?. In Elderly Population in Modern Russia (pp. 73-
91). Springer, Cham.
Gilleard, C. (2017). Growing Older, Growing Sicker?. In Old Age in Nineteenth-Century
Ireland (pp. 77-95). Palgrave Pivot, London.
Del Boca, D., & Venturini, A. (2016). Migration in Italy is backing the old age welfare. In Labor
migration, EU enlargement, and the great recession (pp. 59-83). Springer, Berlin,
Heidelberg.