Practicum: Week 2 Journal Entry

To prepare for this course’s Practicum Experience, reflect on implications
of age-related changes in geriatric patients.

Explain how you might differentiate between normal behaviors/disorders due
to aging and abnormal behavior/disorders that are not age related. Include
how functional assessments might help distinguish “normal” from “abnormal.”

Rosen, S., & Reuben, D. (2011). Geriatric assessment tools. The Mount Sinai
Journal of Medicine, New York, 78(4), 489–497.

Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.

•Flaherty, E., & Resnick, B. (Eds.). (2014). Geriatric nursing review
syllabus: A core curriculum in advanced practice geriatric nursing (4th
ed.). New York, NY: American Geriatrics Society.?Chapter 6, “Assessment”
(pp. 48–53)

This chapter reviews essential components of the comprehensive geriatric
assessment, including physical, cognitive, psychologic, and social
assessment. It also emphasizes other areas of importance, such as assessing
quality of life and driving concerns.

•Holroyd-Leduc, J., & Reddy, M. (Eds.). (2012). Evidence-based geriatric
medicine: A practical clinical guide. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing

•Chapter 1, “Function and Frailty: The Cornerstones of Geriatric
Assessment” (pp. 1–12)?

This chapter describes frailty and provides guidelines for assessing
frailty in older adults. It also examines functional impairment in older
adults and identifies functional assessment tools for treating and
preventing functional decline in frail older adults

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