Draft an essay on Health Ageing

There are 2 stages to this assignment:
• Interviewing: Conducting an assessment of an older person who is over the age of 70 years (please talk to me if you only have access to a younger older person); and
• Writing the Assignment: Discussion of findings from the assessments that relate to this older person.

Stage 1- The Interview
It is expected that you will interview an older person two times; each approximately 30 minutes. This will depend on your current relationship with this older person. I anticipate that during the initial interview you will explore the person’s life, their story about ageing and some initial data about their health. You will be provided with:

an Assessing the older person: Initial Assessment tool and an Ageing Perceptions Questionnaire; 
both will guide the collection of information about the person in relation to their health while ageing.

The first interview provides you with the opportunity to ‘get to know’ the older person by completing the Parts A and B of the Healthy Ageing Initial Assessment provided and the Ageing Perceptions Questionnaire. A subsequent interview allows you to complete any other assessments if your older person requires a more focused assessment. For example a Falls Risk Assessment; a continence assessment or a cognitive assessment.

Stage 2- Discussion about Healthy Ageing for this Older Person

There are 10 sections that must be addressed in this Assessment: 

1. A narrative summary (tell a story) of the person's pertinent life history from their interview; their socio-demographic information and other relevant information about the person's that is important to understand their health. A summary of the older person’s health- includes diseases and medications- use appropriate medical language, lay person’s language is not acceptable. (Collected from PART A: Assessing the older person: Initial Assessment tool)

2. A summary of findings from the Perceptions of Ageing Tool- the older person’s current perceptions, expectations of ageing which includes your insights about the person’s perceptions and the relevance to healthy ageing. References to be included.

3. A summary of findings from the assessments including findings from

Part B: Assessing the older person: Initial Assessment and other focused assessments. NB you are not required to reference the assessment tools but you are required to refer to the assessments by their correct name.

4. Evaluation of the person in relation to healthy ageing- must be referenced to literature about healthy ageing and older people.

5. List of all the problems/issues present and future that you are concerned about in relation to this person’s health.

6. From the discussion in section 5 select 2 problems/issues that will lead to an improvement in health of the older person.

7. Presentation of goals for each problem- must be measureable, relate to this person and lead to an improvement in this person’s health.

8. Description of two nursing actions for each problem/issue- must be evidenced based (references required)

9. Rewards you for using quality references 

10. Rewards you for APA referencing.