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dule 04 Written Assignment - Depression in a Geriatric Client rite a paper for an elderly client between the ages of 75 to 100 experiencing reactive depression due to placement in a long-term care facility y their family members Describe your client's biographical and psychosocial data as an introduction to your paper, along with any current medical diagnosis (for example: hyperlipidemia, hypertension, obesity or failure to thrive, diabetes, macular degeneration, heart failure history, osteoarthritis, urinary incontinence, etc.). Review the clients care plan. List one nursing diagnosis, one client goal, and two intervehtions found in the clients care plan. Locate two scholarly references to support what you found in the care plan and include them in your paper Include the use of the Geriatric Depression Scale in your data gathering. .See your assigned reading to obtain this scale. .Give your client a soore after tallying all the indicators on the scale for your client Rate your client from "nomar to "severely depressed State your references in APA format at the end of the paper Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates. Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the " docx" extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below Jstudent exampleproblem 101504 Need Help? Click here for complete drop box instructions MacBook ET ES & R P T Y K H V L O M 00 7 5

Answer 1

Q. No. 1. Answer :

* Client biographic data :

Name : Mr. Ramana

Age : 80 years

Sex : male

Education : 10th class

Occupation : former

Address : s/o Mr. Venkat.

Pedda Kama Samudram.

* Psycho social data :

Level of consciousness : conscious

Mental status : unstable

Spiritual : he believes God.

Social status : poor socioeconomic status.

Emotional status : reactive depression.

Present diagnosis : Hypertension and obesity.

Q. No. 2. Answer :

1. Nursing diagnosis : Hypertension related to obesity as evidenced by client blood pressure is about 160/100.

Goal : to reduce blood pressure and maintain normal blood pressure.

Interventions :

* daily exercises,

* avoid fatty and fried diet.

* regular check ups,

* salt restriction diet.

2. Depression related to prolong hospitalization as evidenced by not responding well to the questions, and facial expressions.

Goal : to reduce depression.

Interventions :

* allow family members to talk frequently with client.

* provide psychological support and emotional support.

* creat family environment.

* provide diversion therapy by what ever the client likes that is holly spiritual activities, and listening music ect.

Q. No. 3. Answer :

Geriatric depression scale :

* are you basically satisfied with your life?

* do you feel that your life is empty?

* do you attend feel hope less?

* do you feel situation is hope less?

* do you feel sad most of the time?

* do you feel you have more problems than other?

Like these there will be 15 questions positively and negatively so we need to collect the information.

Then give the scoring.

Like these we need to ask the questions in in that patient may get more than 5 indicates patient is in depression.