Helen Thomas Case Summary

The family role of elders and sickness go hand in hand. Elders are held in a high regard being a well-respected member of their community. Due to this their families are very active in caring for their wellbeing. The majority of elders want to live on their own but when they cannot physically care for themselves, although they may move into their family’s home if care can’t be performed adequately. When this happens the elders will live in nursing homes but if family is still present, they are very active in their care. Overall when it comes to the care of any individual in the family the other members are active in giving emotional and spiritual support.

Nancy seems eager to attend therapy to assist her with numerous problems. She has extreme anxiety and depression that keeps her from functioning in her everyday life. The anxiety causes her to develop fearful thoughts when she goes outside of her home, which creates worse panic attacks than she already exhibits daily in her house. No matter what happens in her life, she remains in distress from constant worry concerning the family. Moreover, Nancy has a negative outlook on life, believing that there will be other undesirable event ready to happen shortly. Plus, there has been a continual loss of individual’s that she has loved throughout her life. Continuously, her mother needed to work countless

health began to decline and she soon discovers that she has multiple conditions that “impact her

Karen has been ill with multiple sclerosis disease and has been going to hospital now and then for a long time with frequent short admissions. The author and some church members used to take care of her at her home.

I will be using the patient initials (MK), throughout this paper when I reference her. I asked the patient a list of questions about her life and I will summarize the answers for you now. MK is an alert and oriented 84 year-old female who is happily married and lives with her husband of 56 years. MK is retired and worked as a high school secretary for 20 years in the town she lived in. She grew up in Pennsylvania with her parents and was the oldest of five children. Her family medical history includes cardiac disease and diabetes with all of her brothers and sisters still alive. MK has three of her own children who all live with in a 30 minute drive from her home and they speak frequently on the phone with her and her husband. MK and her husband are going on a vacation together this summer to South Carolina with her son and his family. MK still hosts holidays and family gatherings at her home with only a couple holidays hosted by her son at his home. MK and her husband receive social security and her husband’s pension as their income. They have Medicare and also a supplemental insurance through AARP. MK enjoys her exercise class, reading, her card club, traveling and is also very active in her church including being on the bereavement committee. MK still drives her own car around town to visit friends and shop but prefers not to drive at night

Today, MSC visited Maria at her residence for a face to face visit. When MSC walked in Maria was having a snack at the table. Maria waved and greeted her staff. MSC said, Hello, How are you?" She stated that she needs to talk to MSC in private after she finishes her food. MSC spoke wither Medical Direct Care Counselor Marie Rose. She stated that Maria has been doing good. He is cooperative at times, but requires redirection. Maria stated that she is medically stable and her behavior has improved over the past few months. She is communicates her wants and needs effectively. Maris continues to go to all of her medical appointments and enjoys attending program. Maria goes on all community inclusions and makes suggestions on places she would like to go. She struggles with balancing money, staff continues to assist her in budgeting.

For J. N.’s occupation of work, she was employed at Pennsylvania Water & Gas Company. She was employed there for many years, and expressed that when she began working there, it was only called the Pennsylvania Water Company, because they had not yet bought out the gas company. J.N. is a woman who is full of life. Some of her character traits include that she is friendly, funny, supportive, and always willing to help those around her. J.N. expressed that when growing up, she had older parents, which she believes, allowed her to have a special connection with older people throughout her lifetime. One occupational experience that J.N. has experienced is caring for her friend, for many years. Before and after her friend’s accident, J.N. was her primary caregiver. Some of her patterns of daily living include going for a walk everyday that it is nice out and going to the store. At night she follows a specific pattern, which includes the activities of getting coffee at 4 p.m., boiling a pot of hot water for her neighbor at 6 p.m., and watching the evening news at 7 p.m. Some things that J.N. likes are music, playing the piano, listening

This is because the nurse had already provided Jack with a referral to the local hospital so that a physician could further assess his symptoms and possibly prescribe him one or more medications that could assist in controlling his symptoms. I also believe that this goal will be easy to achieve because despite Charles having recently begun smoking inside the family’s home, he will likely be able to make the transition to smoking outdoors without much difficulty, which will thereby prevent Jack’s illness from progressing further and protect his daughters from falling ill as well. Moreover, when reviewing which of the health practices within the care plan will need to be better accommodated to Jack and Jacqueline’s health needs, it is evident that the nurse may have to adapt how he or she works to improve upon Jacqueline and Charles’ current knowledge of Down Syndrome. As Charles has difficulty accepting Jack and his disorder, providing him with accurate information regarding his son’s diagnosis may be ineffective as he could decide that what he is being told is not important or that it is of no use to him. Therefore, the nurse must work with Charles to, at the very least provide him with some general information about Down Syndrome. If he or she then notices that Charles has decided not to listen to what is being conveyed, this relay of knowledge must cease. From here, all of the crucial information regarding Down Syndrome that the nurse has gathered for both Charles and Jacqueline must only be relayed to Jacqueline. This will thereby prevent any further fuelling of Charles’ rejection of Jack while also ensuring that at least one of Jack’s parents is accurately informed about his

At 5am Officer Singh called SA Lyn Brumaire who was on duty at Coral Tower because Jordan Horvat was worried a resident of 902, Stephanie Lee, was missing. Upon keying into the room with PSO Tabiri, the resident in questions, Stephanie Lee was found to be missing from her apt. Officer Tabiri then decided to take a statement from SA and resident Macayla Caso. Ms. Horvat was also not present in the room. Ms. Caso was under the assumption that Ms. Horvat had gone home since she was packing earlier in the day and the sheets were stripped off her bed.

Cindy has limited physical mobility and presents with mild to moderately impaired cognition. She was diagnosed with dementia by her local physician in 2011 following cardiovascular difficulties and a stroke. Currently, she is experiencing a rapid decline in mobility and cognition, and seeing an increase in anxiety. She reports feeling "confused" and "frustrated" more than usual these days. Her daughter reports that she gets depressed more often. Cindy says that she feels "sad" sometimes. Her daughter feels this has to do with all the recent changes, and also says that her mother 's confusion and disorientation has increased.

The loss of her employment created a tough path to the family. Obtaining employment was difficult having epilepsy prohibited her to drive. Applying for SSI and qualifying to receive provided the rent on the house. Soon her husband left his job, the savings that had been tucked away slowly vanished until none was left. The next catastrophic situation was diagnosis of an aggressive lymphoma. The struggles to survive necessitated government assistance; Medicaid, Food Stamps, WIC and section eight housing provided relief. In Ann’s situation, financial problems only arose when she divorced; child support provided for the children. A part-time job permitted for her development of the children. She stretched her meager income with the help of others. Choosing to live with her mother and seeking friends to assist in the family’s necessities permitted acceptable existence. The desire to nurture the children attracted help from people that admired her devotion and sacrifice. She never thought of taking assistance from the government to interfere with her plans of child-rearing and their future. Both women needed help yet made opposite choices. They elected a pathway for their family’s

Kelly Thomas, a homeless man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, was killed by six members of the Fullerton Police Department on July 5, 2011. After getting transferred to UC Irvine Medical Center, where he remained unconscious, he then later died on July 10,2011. Corporal Jay Cicinelli, Officer Manuel Ramos and Joseph Wolfe were charged with one count of second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. All three pleaded not guilty but were terminated from their job

Recently, she has been diagnosed with colon cancer, which makes it difficult for her to continue working due to various hospital appointments and child rearing. Hannah’s husband work every day and is the main provider of the family. Hannah’s family has struggled to cope with their daily routine

Because of the growing demands of her husband’s worsening condition Mrs Woods now has to depend on other family members to facilitate her with tasks that Mr Woods can no longer undertake due to his COPD, and frequent visits to the

She did not know of any known or unknown medical problem which Ms. Blanco may have had which gotten worse over time or had got aggravated by Ms. Blanco’s duties as a front counter worker. She seemed to be OK, before her last day of work and never complained or mentioned of any said injuries or illnesses on the day she had voluntary quit her