Care of Older Adult
Study Guide
Competency: 742.1.1 Compassionate and Respectful Care of Older Adults
1. Go to the Care of the Older Adult Learning Community. Select documents, select documents, scroll down and select 24/7 Webinar Availability. You want to watch the video Therapeutic Communication and Health Perceptions
1. Read Chapters 4 and 5 and make sure you note the ways to communicate or assist a patient with disabilities such as hearing deficits, vision impairments, or aphasia and dysarthria. Be familiar with the types of hearing devices.
2. Make sure to include Chapter 18 and concentrate on the five racial groups in the United States.
3. Know the abbreviations or acronyms, such as AAC. Know which hearing aids cover the most wide range of hearing loss. See the box on Types of Hearing Aids in chapter 5. Both hearing aids and AAC will be mentioned again in Chapter 16. Make sure you understand what patients could benefit from the use of the AAC.
4. Understand what things can occur to make it difficult to communicate
5.
Competency: 742.1.2 Health Promotion/Maintenance and Living Environments of Older Adults
Competency: 742.1.3 Health Needs of Older Adults
Competency: 742.1.4 Promoting Independence and Autonomy While Reducing Risk Factors in Older Adults
The Goal is to help the older adult remain as independent as safely possible and autonomous. They can make all their own health decisions unless they are cognitively impaired. We do the assessments to determine what is needed to keep them independent as safe
For these competencies, you must know all the changes that come with aging. As you get older there are common physiological changes that occur. For example, night vision decreases, hearing may decrease; kidney function decrease (GFR decreases) and so on. This is what you need to know first. You cannot talk about changing the patient¿s environment or what are their functional losses without knowing what changes occur. You do not have to know the
Competency: 742.1.1 Compassionate and Respectful Care of Older Adults
1. Go to the Care of the Older Adult Learning Community. Select documents, select documents, scroll down and select 24/7 Webinar Availability. You want to watch the video Therapeutic Communication and Health Perceptions
1. Read Chapters 4 and 5 and make sure you note the ways to communicate or assist a patient with disabilities such as hearing deficits, vision impairments, or aphasia and dysarthria. Be familiar with the types of hearing devices.
2. Make sure to include Chapter 18 and concentrate on the five racial groups in the United States.
3. Know the abbreviations or acronyms, such as AAC. Know which hearing aids cover the most wide range of hearing loss. See the box on Types of Hearing Aids in chapter 5. Both hearing aids and AAC will be mentioned again in Chapter 16. Make sure you understand what patients could benefit from the use of the AAC.
4. Understand what things can occur to make it difficult to communicate
5.
Competency: 742.1.2 Health Promotion/Maintenance and Living Environments of Older Adults
Competency: 742.1.3 Health Needs of Older Adults
Competency: 742.1.4 Promoting Independence and Autonomy While Reducing Risk Factors in Older Adults
The Goal is to help the older adult remain as independent as safely possible and autonomous. They can make all their own health decisions unless they are cognitively impaired. We do the assessments to determine what is needed to keep them independent as safe
For these competencies, you must know all the changes that come with aging. As you get older there are common physiological changes that occur. For example, night vision decreases, hearing may decrease; kidney function decrease (GFR decreases) and so on. This is what you need to know first. You cannot talk about changing the patient¿s environment or what are their functional losses without knowing what changes occur. You do not have to know the