Reference no: EM132693252

Assignment: Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

• Demographics, life time education and career/employment

• Two most significant (positive) times in their lives

• What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?

• Two personal strengths

• Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills

• Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now

• Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?

Support the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale

Support the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment

Perform a Mini Mental State Exam and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire

Perform a Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article

NOTE: when citing and referencing authors with same last names and same first initials the full first names are to be cited and referenced. See the APA manual for details.

Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient stress questionnaire and the mini mental status exam (DO NOT submit the assessments themselves-instead summarize each of the assessment outcomes within your paper under an appropriate heading, such as Geriatric Depression Scale Outcomes, etc.)

Discuss your older adult's level of ego integrity versus despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?

Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client-from assessments
1) Fatigue related to inefficient energy production from decreased Serotonin production

2) Insomnia related to noctrnal insomnia.