01 Oct Portrayal of elderly characters
NSG4067 Gerontological Nursing
Week 1 Discussion
Topic 1
Watch at least 60 minutes of TV, focusing on the depiction of older adults. Analyze and discuss TV programming in the context of at least two of the following:
Portrayal of elderly characters
Intergenerational themes
Conflict in relation to the older population
Aging stereotypes or myths
Cultural diversity in relation to quality of care
Topic 2
Discuss your own philosophy of aging.
When do you think a person becomes elderly?
What do you think of older people?
Are they active, senile, debilitated, etc.?
Provide a description of an elderly person that you know.
NSG4067 Gerontological Nursing
Week 2 Discussion
Topic 1
Age related changes can affect the lifestyle/quality of life of the elderly.
What do you think are the two most prevalent age-related changes that affect the lifestyle of the elderly?
How would you help an elderly patient adjust to the two changes you identified?
Topic 2
Communication with the elderly can be challenging.
Identify at least two modes of communication you have used with the elderly in your clinical practice.
State what modes of communication were effective and which modes were challenging. Explain why.
NSG4067 Gerontological Nursing
Week 3 Discussion
Wellness in the Elderly
Develop a wellness program with a holistic approach for the older adult you identified in your Week 2 project.
Use resources available in your community.
Discuss how this approach will provide an optimum level of well-being.
NSG4067 Gerontological Nursing
Week 4 Discussion
Functional Wellness
Identify two strategies you can implement to provide comfort to maintain function with an ethnically diverse older adult with a chronic disease?
These strategies can be nutrition, ADLs, exercise, etc.
NSG4067 Gerontological Nursing
Week 5 Discussion
Elder Abuse
There are many types of elder abuse.
Choose two types of elder abuse and discuss challenges you perceive in abolishing them.
Justify why you consider them as the most crucial.
Discuss how you can advocate and protect the elderly from abuse.
