Question

Consider and discuss the learning needs of the following clients: 1. An individual who has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. 2. A family caring for an elderly individual with Alzheimer's disease. 3. A community in which adolescent cigarette smoking is on the rise.

Answer 1

1) The patient with lung cancer need to know about the risk factors of the cancer.The main risk factors of the lung cancer is the subjection to the common tobacco smoking or subjection to any kind of radiations or other danger substances and also if ant family members having this kind of disease history etc. And most of the people with the lung cancer is normally subjected to any of these risk.But now also there are some people in which the reason is not known.

Some of the steps to reduce the lung cancer is firstly to avoid the smoking and also take some kind of protective measures to avoid the subjection to the dangerous materials in the job place by using the plastic masks etc.Mainly the lung cancer evaluation is mainly done the people who is marked to be high risk.In this case, for these people the CT scanning or Computed Tomography scanning can easily decrease the chance of death due to the lung cancer.This is mainly done to the people with in the age group between 55 to 74 ,who are having a 30 years experience of cigarette smoking and have not used for the last 15 years time.These are the basic and the main things that the patient should be known about their disease.

2) Mainly the care giving to the Alzheimer's patients need a great patience.And more than that we should help them to reduce their frustration. Every person with the Alzheimer's will be having the symptoms in different ways and its development will be also in a different way. And the family and friends support is also a big factor.

For for helping them what we can do is,

Make a correct daily routine for them like correct time for bathing , eating, and medical check ups. And also take your time or spend some of your time for them, then it will be a very happiest moment for them.Then try to involve the person in some tasks just for an assistance along with you,then give them better type of instructions to their daily task in a good manner.

3) In these recent years the cigarette smoking by the adolescents is greatly increasing.

So the appropriate solution for this is ,

-- Question the youth and adolescents about their cigarette usage and give give them correct information about the problems of cigarette smoking and provide them counselling to prevent their usage.

-- Try the 5A's procedure to counsel tobacco smoking termination. Foe more information, look at the application points which has been provided for this problem.

-- Be aware of the investigation on the pharmaceutical termination involvement for the adolescents and adults and provide them good and perfect medicine for them.

-- Recommend for medical school and health care programs for the smoking prevention.

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