Reflection: Improving My Relationship With Older Adults

As a hopeful, speech pathologist, if I was to reflect back on the lifespan that I would feel most challenging in the health system, it would have to be older adulthood. Older adult hood would be difficult to work with as there are a range of issues that may arise or they already are dealing with, that could impact the care in which they accept or receive. This lifespan also has had more life experiences and therefore they may see the treatment that they are going to get as not right or they might feel uncomfortable because they might know someone who has been through the same scenario, and that persons’ treatment may not have worked or it took them a long amount of time to heal. Due to those life experiences they might think they have more knowledge about recovery and how to deal with themselves. Finally, due to my inexperience …show more content…
I personally feel that to improve my relationship with older adults is to familiarise myself with the way in they work such as thought patterns, behaviour and social behaviours. If I familiarise myself with these things then I will be able to apply them when working with older adults, which then a relationship between practitioner and client. To work with older adults, I could practice scenarios that may help with my understanding of this lifespan and this way I can change my behaviours to older adults. As I have not had many experiences with older adults except with my grandparents, so I could change my behaviour by engaging with them and find out way I can work with older adults by talking to them and observe their behaviour. Furthermore, I believe that if I work more with older adults, I would become more comfortable working with older adults that way I can grow my knowledge and apply that information to the older adults I will end up working with later