Assignment:
Develop an intervention for an older person that incorporates independence, self-determination and purposeful activity.
Introduction
The aging population is increasing in different countries, and people and healthcare institutions have to meet their responsibility. The care of the aging population seems imperative to create goodwill. The most important thing is to meet the needs of a de-identified client with special needs. In this study, I have to identify an older adult with particular needs. It seems necessary to make some interventions to make him/her happy and enhance social interaction. Of course, the intention is to integrate with the activity theory of aging. Client needs, aims, objectives, pedagogy, resources, program delivery, and evaluation are essential parts of this study.
Definition of aging
Aging is a process of growing older. It is a fact that an older person cannot afford diseases due to a lack of body support. Older adults, especially above 60, can suffer from diseases. Therefore, they always need special assistance from caregivers or families. According to the activity theory of aging, older adults can stay happy and satisfied due to some activities and social interaction. They want to be a little busy in their lives, especially after retirement or after disease recovery instead of being isolated. In addition, social interactions can be the excellent support of these people, as meeting with families, friends, and people in society and participating in social events can enhance the visibility of satisfaction and happiness. Thus, my intervention will be aligned with satisfaction and social interaction. Before showing my intent, I have to find an older person with special needs and wants (Gallagher, 2011).
The older person with a specific health care need
Eglizharry (de-identified), a 68-year-old woman with arthritis who lives at home alone. And she needs someone to enhance social interaction to perform some activities. Being a patient of arthritis, she has to do any physical activity to remain active. Of course, she cannot be in bed all day and night. She has a right to be a part of society, and it is possible through some interventions.
My intent: Decorating or Gardening
I intend to assist her with decorating and gardening. After getting permission from her daughter, who supported me regarding my intentions, I aimed to make her happy and satisfied. I can become a source for her to enhance social interaction and remain busy in life. Decorating and gardening are some of her hobbies, even at a young age. Now is the best time to relive her intent and assist her.
Rationale & Outcome
My intervention will be facilitating ion decorating and gardening, and there is a pertinent reason behind it. For Instance, for an elderly person like her, the wellbeing can be justified. Moreover, I can improve dexterity, which is also good for people who have arthritis. It has been revealed that arthritis also causes depression and anxiety, and gardening and decoration are the best interventions of activities to create a positive impact. In short, these interventions can reduce depression and anxiety. The patient must be satisfied and relaxed, and decoration and gardening are the best sources in this regard. Now, it seems imperative for me to assist her and boost social interaction or entertainment for her.
Client Need
The client’s need is in the limelight at old age. As mentioned above, the old woman has arthritis. Giving care to this kind of patient is a big challenge, as the show needs more assistance than other patients do. With a permanent muscle strain, she is in a position to be isolated. In consequence, ethically, it seems imperative to enhance the social interaction for her to make her feel good. Timely medication, exercise, or any physical activity, meal, and bath are required with the assistance of someone who intends to care. Decorating and gardening are some interventions of needs, which can be justified by presenting Erikson’s psychodynamic theory. He elaborated on the task of old age as balancing the research for wholeness and integrity along with the sense of despair. Human growth and maturation from childhood to old age varies with time. At a young age, people want to spend time with someone. Nonetheless, in old age, even after maturation, an older adult wants to spend time with others to justify integrity and wholeness. Thus, through gardening and decorating, the need for an older woman can be met (Wadensten, 2006).
The patient is suffering from osteoarthritis, which is one of the most common forms of arthritis. It damaged joints in different ways. Some symptoms that her daughter and I observed were pain, stiffness, swelling, redness, and decreased range of motion. Of course, these elements have restrained the old patient from enhancing social interaction. In short, mobility is limited, as she needs assistance in almost every activity of daily life. Prominent health needs heat and cold, as, after joint usage, it helps to reduce swelling and redness. Exercise is a significant need, as it can bring flexibility, decrease pain, and improve blood flow. Apart from these needs, rest, weight control exercises, emotional support, non-pharmacological control, and medication are other needs (Payne, Mowen and Montoro-Rodriguez, 2006).
Rational
In a particular setting (Living at home), decorating and gardening are needed due to increasing benefits for the patient. For Instance, a patient with arthritis can keep herself in a better state. She can be in a better state by making the bones stronger. Fewer falls are possible, as gardening and decorating activities can keep blood pressure at bay. It is a fact that caring for personal plants needs whole-body usage or movement. It will be a fun exercise, which can make them stronger, healthier, and satisfied. Gardening is a kind of treatment of arthritis, and an older adult who has arthritis is the only beneficiary.
Aims
- The client will be able to plant herbs in pots and decorate the place with some accessories.
- The client will meet other family members and neighbourhoods when decorating and gardening
- Doing little exercise with my assistance to perform activities
- By the end of the intervention, the client will be able to talk about something in life
- She will be able to move her body and reduce the impact of arthritis
Objectives
The principles of the social care model are volunteering, personalisation, partnership services, equality, and care identification. These principles set the foundation to meet goals through this intervention
- I want to change my perception of older people
- I have to integrate with the community
- Loving and caring is a particular social behaviour, which can help me to implement relationships
- Thinking behaviour is to be changed through thinking with the perspective of an aging population
- The objective is to improve my relations with older adults in the community in the next 6 to 8 months
- I want the old patient receiver by my intervention and behaviour instead of being isolated
Pedagogy
To meet these objectives, I have to adopt mentoring as a training method. Training, guiding, or assisting senior citizens is a crucial challenge to help them recover and boost social interactions. Interestingly, they are always trained, but need assistance to show their cooperation in society and the skills to perform activities. Concerning the client-learning cycle, this pedagogy is suitable. I cannot direct a respectable older woman suffering from disease, as I have to mentor her to make her able to react in society (Lyons, 2009).
Resources
- Doorknob, turners
- Specially designed cutters
- Pick up reaches
- Rubber grips
- Relaxing chair
- Massager
Program Delivery
I made some critical interventions by integrating with aging and society paradigm. This aging theory is in the limelight due to the relationship between people and structures. Of course, there is a need for systematic ties between them to meet the objectives. Similarly, when making interventions or taking care, I arranged things in order. First, I built the structure of the garden, arranged things for her to come here, and performed activities. I also provided appropriate tools and mentored her regarding the usage of these tools. By mentoring exercises, I made her able to be flexible and active. Finally, I made her meet people, take medicine timely, and sleep well. It was proper social care, which was aligned with the aging theory, such as aging and society paradigm (Minkler and Fadem, 2002)
Evaluation
There are some essential means, which can be used to measure progress or intervention. One of the most important measures is the behaviour of the woman. I can observe her with depression and anxiety, redness, and isolation. If she is moving regularly, enhancing the social interaction, and reducing symptoms of arthritis, then it means my intervention is pertinent.
Conclusion
In the end, it is to conclude that social care intervention is a critical approach to build a relationship in society and show some moral values. Giving care to a patient in a particular setting is a big concern. However, it can be maintained by integrating it systematically. The activity of aging theory and other related theories have also been aligned to elaborate and derive insights.
References
Gallagher, C. (2011) The Community Life of Older People in Ireland, Peter Lang.
Lyons, I. (2009) ‘Public perceptions of older people and ageing’, NCPOP, no. http://www.ncpop.ie/userfiles/file/ncpop%20reports/Review%201%20LR%20Older%20people%20and%20ageing.pdf, pp. 5-67.
Minkler, M. and Fadem, P. (2002) ‘”Successful aging”: A disability perspective’, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 229-235.
Payne, L.L., Mowen, A.J. and Montoro-Rodriguez, J. (2006) ‘The Role of Leisure Style in Maintaining the Health of Older Adults with Arthritis’, Journal of Leisure Research, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 20-45.
Wadensten, B. (2006) ‘An analysis of psychosocial theories of ageing and their relevance to practical gerontological nursing in Sweden’, Scandinavian Journal of caring science, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 347-54.
