INTERVIEW WITH AN OLDER ADULT Throughout this paper I will discuss my interview with F.C. My interview entails a social history, nutritional status, Katz index score of independence in activities of daily living, the results of her mini mental exam, fall prevention scale and a summary of my overall impression.
Social History F.C. is an eighty-six-year-old Caucasian female that was born in Philadelphia. She is one of thirteen children all of which, except one, are still living. Her parents were immigrants from Calabria, Italy both lived well into their nineties, dying of natural causes. As a young adult she worked as an artist for the Temple school of Dentistry drawling the mouths of patients before the use of x-ray machines. She met her …show more content…
reports that she is a very good eater and takes enjoyment in cooking healthy. She referenced her mother and grandmother quite often during this assessment sharing all of her home remedies for illnesses that her parents and grandparents did because they dislike medicine and antibiotics feeling that they should only be used if you are dying in a hospital. Her morning breakfast consists of everything between a Quinoa fruit salad to Avocado toast with bacon and eggs and swears by fresh squeezed orange juice every morning. Lunch, grilled cheese with tomato or a crunchy tuna wrap or a bowl of boiled potatoes, string beans and butter. For dinner, she says, is for whatever she is in the mood or what the family feels like eating. She loves meat and grilled rack of lamb is her favorite. F.C. says that she does not like to eat alone that maybe it is because she has always been surrounded by family starting with her own siblings. Fortunately, her F.C., she is never alone. The DETERMINE mnemonic is a tool that is used for screening the nutritional status of the older adult. F.C. score is a 1; she has been diagnosed with borderline hypertension that she contributes to the increased amount of salt she uses. She states that nothing tastes good unless it has salt on it (Nutritional Screening, …show more content…
had fallen when she was 82 years old in her church’s basement while helping feed a group of children from India. She said that she tripped and sustained a left femur and hip fracture that required surgery and the placement of a rod. The doctor told her at the time that she would be required to walk with a walker for the rest of her life once she finishes months and months of therapy, nevertheless, in six months she was walking around her house looking for her cane because she could not remember where she had left it. She never needed a walker and never found her cane. The running joke, she says, between her children is that her children tell her that she is like a cockroach, they cannot kill her. The Hendrich II fall risk model assesses a patient for factors that contribute to and increase the risks of falls in the elderly, such as, disorientation, depression, medications and physical restrictions (Tabloski, 2014). F.C. did not meet any of these risk factors resulting in a 0 for her score on the Hendrich II fall risk
Social History F.C. is an eighty-six-year-old Caucasian female that was born in Philadelphia. She is one of thirteen children all of which, except one, are still living. Her parents were immigrants from Calabria, Italy both lived well into their nineties, dying of natural causes. As a young adult she worked as an artist for the Temple school of Dentistry drawling the mouths of patients before the use of x-ray machines. She met her …show more content…
reports that she is a very good eater and takes enjoyment in cooking healthy. She referenced her mother and grandmother quite often during this assessment sharing all of her home remedies for illnesses that her parents and grandparents did because they dislike medicine and antibiotics feeling that they should only be used if you are dying in a hospital. Her morning breakfast consists of everything between a Quinoa fruit salad to Avocado toast with bacon and eggs and swears by fresh squeezed orange juice every morning. Lunch, grilled cheese with tomato or a crunchy tuna wrap or a bowl of boiled potatoes, string beans and butter. For dinner, she says, is for whatever she is in the mood or what the family feels like eating. She loves meat and grilled rack of lamb is her favorite. F.C. says that she does not like to eat alone that maybe it is because she has always been surrounded by family starting with her own siblings. Fortunately, her F.C., she is never alone. The DETERMINE mnemonic is a tool that is used for screening the nutritional status of the older adult. F.C. score is a 1; she has been diagnosed with borderline hypertension that she contributes to the increased amount of salt she uses. She states that nothing tastes good unless it has salt on it (Nutritional Screening, …show more content…
had fallen when she was 82 years old in her church’s basement while helping feed a group of children from India. She said that she tripped and sustained a left femur and hip fracture that required surgery and the placement of a rod. The doctor told her at the time that she would be required to walk with a walker for the rest of her life once she finishes months and months of therapy, nevertheless, in six months she was walking around her house looking for her cane because she could not remember where she had left it. She never needed a walker and never found her cane. The running joke, she says, between her children is that her children tell her that she is like a cockroach, they cannot kill her. The Hendrich II fall risk model assesses a patient for factors that contribute to and increase the risks of falls in the elderly, such as, disorientation, depression, medications and physical restrictions (Tabloski, 2014). F.C. did not meet any of these risk factors resulting in a 0 for her score on the Hendrich II fall risk