Working With Elderly Patients

With the joy and compassion, I have toward helping others. I am interested in working with elderly patients. I find it is easier to communicate with individuals who are of an older population. I work at a nursing home now and I absolutely love it. Getting to know each individual resident and creating a bond, that will impact the relationship you have with them brings me an abundance amount of happiness. Even with just assisting the residents with a task that I would consider to be quite simple. May be very complex and difficult for them to complete. I think it will be a very rewarding experience and I will learn a lot when working with this particular population.

I think the most difficult challenges I will have to face when working with this population, is their death. Often times when an elderly patient becomes sick the likely hood of that individual being health is low. So, I think the biggest challenge I will face is knowing that they are on the last few stages of their life. Also, the difficulty of treating an individual who is of the elderly population.

Reminding myself that they were in the best hands possible to comfort them during the last few stages of their life. Knowing the impact, I made on their life and how I changed it for the better.

Looking back at the connection I made with them and taking that lesson, I learned and applying it to the relationships I make with my patients or clients in the future.

I think the theory that best fits with this population is the Strengths Perspective. With Ecological Perspective one must comprehend the type of environment the client or patient lives in or had lived in. With that being said their family, religious beliefs, life events, work all found within their environment. It is also important to appreciate and recognize the effect of oppression in their life. Oppression is best known as continuing a long and unjust