Preventive Measures for Aging: Health and Safety Report Analysis

This report examines the challenges faced by an elderly, recently widowed 79-year-old man, Mr. T, living in his two-story home. It identifies eight potential problems impacting his health and safety, including social isolation, financial issues, mobility limitations, chronic diseases, cognitive decline, risk of physical injury, malnutrition, and care coordination difficulties. The report then proposes specific nursing actions to address four of these issues: engagement, mobility, chronic health, and cognitive health. These actions include introducing social and digital programs, providing fitness programs, promoting regular checkups and healthy diets, and implementing treatment plans to manage cognitive decline. The report emphasizes the importance of proactive measures in elderly care to improve the quality of life and well-being of older adults.

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Preventive measures for aging
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1.0 Introduction
In this modern society, it is quite evident that aging has really become a social issue and
the aged people are struggling a lot to lead a normal life. It has been found that the aged people
in this modern society have low social status and do not have any power to make decisions
regarding their lifestyle. We need to consider the fact that growing older leads to deterioration in
the health conditions and for that reason, the aged people have to face many social and health-
related issues.
This report is going to concentrate on the identification of eight possible problems that
result in bringing an impact on the health and safety of Mr. T. Then, the report focuses on the
possible nursing procedures that need to be carried out to overcome four identified issues.
Finally, the report ends with a conclusion.
2.0 Identification of eight possible problems which can impact the health and
safety of Mr. T
According to the given scenario, Mr. T is a 79-year-old widowed person and in this age,
he may face various kinds of health-related issues and other issues as well. The lists of eight
possible problems that can impact on the safety and health of Mr. T are as follows:
1. Purpose and engagement issues: Aging results in the creation of social isolation
of an aged person from society. Mr. T can also face the same issue with social
isolation if he faces difficulties in expressing his feelings and desire in front of
his daughters and son (Touhy et al., 2018).

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2. Financial issues: When people grow older and live a longer life then they can
face financial issues. Mr. T had been staying with his wife in that same house for
fifty years and have retired from work much before (Miller, 2018). Thus, a
condition of the financial crisis can impact on his safety and health conditions.
3. Problems with Movement and mobility: The major issue that occurs after
growing older is a problem for the movement. Presently, Mr. T can manage to go
outside and can use the staircase but with time it can become difficult for him to
do so.
4. Chronic health-related issues: Mr. T is also prone to several chronic diseases
like diabetes, stroke, heart-related diseases, and cancer due to aging.
5. Issues with cognitive health: Cognitive health concentrates on the ability of a
person to think about any fact, learn new ideas and for remembering facts but in
this age, it will become difficult for Mr. T to carry out these activities (Kim et al.,
2017, p. 41).
6. Physical injury at home: Aging results in shrinking of bones followed by
loosening the flexibility and muscle strength. Thus, using strains for many times
have a high probability of physical injury for Mr. T.
7. Malnutrition: Aging results in weakening the immune system and digestive
issues can occur which in turn can cause malnutrition for Mr. T.
8. Issues with care coordination and caregiving: It becomes very difficult for the
nurses to provide proper care to the aging people as they have the probability of
forgetting things and feel difficult to follow the instructions given by the nurses.

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3.0 Possible nursing actions for four identified problems
The possible nursing actions for four identified problems include:
1. Nursing actions for overcoming engagement issues: Creative and digitalized
programs can be introduced to Mr. T for making social bonding thereby creating
the opportunities of lifelong learning (Thoma-Lürken et al., 2018, p. 34).
2. Solutions for overcoming issues with mobility and movement: Fitness
products and programs need to be given to Mr. T for maximizing his strength,
fitness, safety, balancing, mobility, and independence at the age of 79 years.
3. Nursing actions in chronic health-related issues: Annual checkup by the nurse
and physician need to be done to maintain a healthy diet thereby providing
assistance with regular exercise for controlling the chronic diseases.
4. Nursing measures to reduce issues of cognitive health: With aging, the ability
of a person to think becomes dull and there is no proper cure for this problem.
But, the nurses can prescribe a treatment plan to Mr. T for controlling him to get
dementia (Hammond et al., 2019, p. 509).

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