Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

• Demographics, life time education and career/employment
• Two most significant (positive) times in their lives
• What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?
• Two personal strengths
• Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills
• Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now
• Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?
• Support the client in taking theGeriatric Depression Scale.pdf
• Support the client in taking theFulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf
• Perform aMini Mental State Exam.pdfandPatient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf(attach here)
• Perform aHall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf
• Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient Stress Questionnaire, and the Mini-Mental Status Exam
• Discuss your older adult's level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?
• Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.
• Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.

Include at least two scholarly sources.