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