Reference no: EM133196827

RESEARCH PAPER -Well Elder Health Assessment and Community Experience Purpose: The purpose of this project is to provide and observational experience for the student in the community that meets the needs of the well-elderly and to allow the student a personal insight to the normal aging changes. Nurses need exposure to well- elderly clients to assess all dimensions of health, to evaluate any specific needs, to evaluate what community resources are available, and to describe the nursing practice implications appropriate to the well-elderly client. Objectives: Upon completion of the experience the assignment, the nursing student will be able to:

1) Evaluate a well-elderly client's health status in all dimensions of health: physical, psychological, social, spiritual and sexual.

2) Describe the scope of services available within a specific community providing services to older adults by differentiating among services that are health promoting, health maintaining, and health restoring.

3) Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs, identify one primary health strength, one primary health need, and document one nursing implication needed to maintain and / or strengthen each on.

4) Delineate appropriate nursing implication for practice that meet well-elderly client's needs.

5) Evaluate the well elderly client's needs in relation to available resources.

6) Identify one evidence-based content area that will be helpful in your role as the RN with the geriatric client.

Directions for Assignment:

1) Select an older adult (65 years or older) that is currently in the community you have been assigned and is independent in their living arrangements. The person needs to be able and willing to answer questions.

2) Also, plan to talk with a community agency representative to get the necessary information for your community agency assessment.

3) Complete the following assessment. You are interested in the well-elder's perspective of health. No physical examination is done. At the end of each subsection, complete the evaluation portion.

4) Summarize your finds on the summative evaluation sheet.