Case Study Analysis: Herbert, Chronic Hypertension, and Wellbeing

This case study focuses on Herbert, a 65-year-old man with chronic hypertension, living a semi-retired life in a coastal town. The analysis delves into Herbert's health concerns, including his overweight condition and difficulties with manual labor, and his lifestyle choices such as his diet and alcohol consumption. It also examines the impact of his declining health on his marriage and family relationships, highlighting the stress and challenges he faces. The case study applies the biopsychosocial model to understand the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors contributing to Herbert's health issues. It also discusses Herbert's late adulthood stage according to Erikson's model. The provided references support the analysis, offering a comprehensive understanding of Herbert's situation.

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Herbert and His Daily Life
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Who is the client
The client name is Herbert who is 65 years of age. The client has a health issue of chronic
hypertension. he lives in the coastal town and he is semi-retired. At his part-time, he works as a
gardener in his local retirement village. He is married to Betty and she is not happy due to his
health deterioration and hence they are experiencing difficulties in marriage. The couple has two
grown children and five grandchildren meaning that there in their old age. He is overweight and
most of the time he finds it hard to perform heavy manual work in the home garden.
Life approach
According to the Erikson model, he defines late adulthood as the age which begins at 65.
It is evident that Herbert has reached its late adulthood. Late adulthood means the period
between the age of 60s and 75 years. This age is characterized by social, psychological and
physical changes of life. In this age, most of the individuals are not satisfied and hence they
become bitter and very disillusioned. (Cramer, 2017 p.540). Herbert falls in the group of the
people who become worried in life because he has many health issues in his body and a lot of
family stress (Heinze et al., 2015 p. 270).
Health concerns
The disease is generally defined as a health condition that is diagnosed by a medical
physician or a registered nurse (Akhade 2016 p. 762). While illness means a health condition that
an individual identifies himself or herself with. Illness can be based on mental or physical
symptoms (Mouratidi, Bonoti and Leondari, 2016 p. 432). Herbert has a chronic hypertension
disease and he is also overweight meaning that when diagnosed he can be having obesity disease.
This is because he cannot perform manual labour due to poor health, he has stress illness due to

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the difficulties he is experiencing with his family and he is experiencing problems with vision
(Mangen, 2015 p. 90)
Model of health
Herbert belongs to Bio-psychosocial model of health. This approach considers the
biological, psychological and social factors that can lead an individual and have health issues and
illnesses (Cowley and Collins 2016 p.371). On case study of Herbert where he experiences all
the symptoms recorded in the bio-psychosocial model of health. Herbert biological and physical
symptoms include due to his poor health he experiences problems to perform manual labour and
he has also problems with his vision. On the psycho symptoms, because even his family is facing
some financial instability. Moreover, Herbert is experiencing some social symptoms in that due
to this health his wife threatens to live him.

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