Elderly Intervention

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The skilled nursing facility provided psychosocial counseling as well as social services to John. Also, the Certified Nurse Assistants assigned to him were aware of his emotional state. Thus, interventions were implemented. Just like John, there are numerous available resources that an elderly population can utilize to live a quality life. However, the actual challenge lies in the acknowledgment of the presence of problems and identification of such needs, both on the part of the patient and the caregiver. For instance, depression is underdiagnosed because the symptoms are overlooked and undertreated since they exhibited simultaneously with other issues confronting the older adults (World Health Organization, 2017). Moreover, elderly tends

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