Interview with an Older Adult Lida Guzman
To find out about the way toward aging and what it intends to somebody who is viewed as a more established grown-up, I met a woman who is moving toward his sixty-fifth birthday celebration in August. For this paper, I will allude to the lady met as Janet, an invented name to ensure her protection. Janet is a last born in her family with two sisters and one brother, they all were conceived in Mexico town however have lived in Patzcuaro Michoacán by the age of five years to date. Both of Janet’s folks kicked the bucket before her thirtieth birthday celebration, her mom passing on of a youthful age after experiencing diabetes, which made her carry on with her last long stretches of life isolated to a sanatorium. Janet has been a housewife for an incredible reminder. Janet has additionally been having a vision issue since she achieved the age of fifty years. Janet attended school up to the middle school. Janet has five youngsters with three being young men and two young ladies. Janet adores voyaging and investing energy with her family. Janet has been married to a man who we likewise utilize an invented name, John. Janet has been hitched throughout the previous forty years, and they have never separated. From the previous ten-fifteen years, Jane has to suffer from diabetes; she has additionally been experiencing hypertension, which result will in general reason her a lot of wellbeing troubles as she ages. Janet can perform non-physical obligations. Jane adores cooking, taking care of her nursery, sewing garments, and she cherishes painting. Jane frequently gets worn out after playing out a specific obligation for over 60 minutes. Janet is exceptionally moderate while doing her obligations, and takes a more extended period to finish an assignment. Janet accepts that her poor dietary patterns and inordinate liquor substance caused her wellbeing to disintegrate, making her flimsier, and causing a few sicknesses like hypertension and diabetes. Janet hates the reality everyone in her residence dependably needs to take care of her thinking of her as powerless, and can’t perform obligations all alone.
Discussion
When I enquired from Jane about her considerations on aging, she replied by expressing that aging is “a natural movement spread out by God. I am not frightened to kick the bucket, and rather, I take a gander at every day as a blessing. I do not consider aging to be a positive or a negative, yet only a typical, regular procedure.” Janet closed by including that dreaded throbbing and pain do accompany age, yet so increases shrewdness and the chance to keep on finding out about oneself and develop from those reflections. As the discussion between Janet and me proceeded, in any case, I saw that she had worries about maturing, which turned out to be progressively clear in her references to money-related issues just as the poor occupation she demonstrated she has done at carrying on with a reliable way of life.
In light of Janet’s good and legit answers to my inquiries, I asked her what she thought medical attendants and other therapeutic services experts could do to help individuals like her at achieving their objectives of a solid way of life. Janet reacted by expressing, “Great; you can’t accuse the specialists. A lot of data is accessible out there, and in our general public individuals move left and right and accuse others always, yet it is eventually dependent upon the person to assume liability for his [or her] own wellbeing.” Individuals ought not to be made to feel that they are being surged from attendant to specialist on a sequential construction system without getting the opportunity to pose inquiries or take part in the discussion.” Janet gave subtleties of the specialist that she routinely observes who, “do not over-burden his calendar with patients, and has tolerance” and inferred that somewhat more quality time went through with patients could go far as patient results. Janet likewise stressed the significance of advancing freedom and self-sufficiency in more established grown-ups because she feels that as “soon as somebody winds up in a nursing home and is advised when and where to get things done, loneliness, and loss of self-idea add to a fast decrease in health.”
During Janet’s meeting, it appeared that to distinguish in any event two techniques that she has used to advance sound aging, and health would demonstrate troublesome, as the greater part of our discussion was centered on her sentiments of disappointment at advancing her health. At a certain point, I even asked Janet this very inquiry: what procedures have you used to advance sound aging? She reacted that she is an “awful precedent” and is extremely disillusioned in what she has done with her wellbeing. Now, I recognized Janet’s mistake with herself and directed her concentration toward the fact that she had referenced strolling as a type of activity in the meeting. I inquired as to whether Janet if she would consider practicing a technique that could advance solid aging, Janet concurred that it helps to advance sound maturing and depicted to me that regardless of being overweight, she had engaged with moderate to enthusiastic exercise consistently for a large portion of his life. The multiple times throughout Janet’s life that she quit any pretense of drinking liquor, she was effectively taking an interest in a recovery program and referenced that “I shed pounds, and I felt incredible, I would play basketball each day, and nobody can imagine how an old geezer like me could beat them, however I did!” I accept that if Janet had direction and consolation to get engaged with an open community, or association, fixated on physical and mental action, she would think that it is a lot simpler to roll out some sound improvements to her way of life. Even though Janet conceded that she as of now does not work out, she said on the off chance that anything about her present way of life transforms, it will be that she will incorporate greater action into his day by day schedule.
Another strength that I accept has helped Janet altogether with her aging procedure (regardless of that reality that she didn’t perceive this as a system she has used to advance health) is her proceeded with confidence in her religion. With everything that Janet has experienced in her life, she has dependably had the most extreme confidence in God. During the meeting, Janet expressed on a few events that her misery with how she has treated her body originates from convictions that God gives every one of us a body that we ought to appreciate and treat with the best regard. Janet likewise remarked that “without confidence, I don’t know I would, in any case, be alive today” while talking about a portion of the more troublesome occasions she has experienced with liquor abuse and dejection. As recently referenced, Janet is worried about the potential for dejection on the off chance that she ought to require help with living, and I accept that her confidence in God and maturing as a characteristic procedure will assist her with continuing to be a functioning individual from a religious network and to manage any stresses over maturing. Janet, at present, has a place with a congregation network and uses this participation as a method for help, direction, and fellowship.
A significant acknowledgment that turned out in my meeting with Janet was a comprehension of how frequently we generalized certain practices or sicknesses as being a piece of the normal procedure of aging. When in truth, these may be the aftereffects of how an individual has dealt with his or her self and don’t apply to every single, more seasoned grown-up (Harman, page 7126). On account of Janet, her way of life propensities will assume a huge job in her satisfaction as a more seasoned grown-up, and she is the first to concede that her circumstance could be radically unique had she carried on with her life a specific way. More seasoned grown-ups, for example, Janet are in danger for poor diet, and depression, however, this isn’t valid for each more established grown-up (Tabloski, page 114). Tabloski contends that for some more seasoned grown-ups, life fulfillment does not diminish with age and character security can be more grounded in the second 50% of an individual’s life. The significance of maintaining a strategic distance from regular generalizations and refocusing consideration on every individual’s conditions ought to be a need for each attendant in any circumstance, not simply gerontology
I think the most significant knowledge that I got from doing this meeting is the importance of good relational abilities when managing patients. Janet’s meeting was sometimes troublesome whiles; she was talking about frustration with herself and how she has treated her body. I additionally watched the dread in her voice and concerned outward appearances as she talked about ideas of depression, budgetary battles, and recorded the different diseases that as of now influence her satisfaction at sixty-six years old. All through this interview, I discovered it was basic that I kept up an understanding, sympathetic, and reasonable point of view toward the things she was guiding me to give a dimension of solace and consolation. At the end of the meeting, Janet remarked that in the wake of examining her perspectives on aging with me, she felt a specific commitment to address the worries about her wellbeing and expressed that “this discussion causes me to kick back and think when I am going to make changes? Time props upon, and one week from now will transform into one week from now except if I accomplish something now.” I accept that as I practice as a medical attendant and even as a CNL, my emphasis will be on the significance of making and keeping up a solid connection among medical caretaker and patient to encourage ideal correspondence since it is then that advancement and accomplishment am destined to happen. In a domain where trust is set up and troublesome, yet main problems can be talked about, I accept that numerous patients will be increasingly disposed, to be straightforward with themselves just as the human services proficient. This meeting, thus, will in a perfect world lead to more minutes like the one I encountered toward the finish of Janet’s meeting, where mindfulness and tendency to roll out real improvements happened. Medical attendants are committed to giving the correct assets, training, and backing to help the patient follow up on the inspiration picked up from experience.
Comparing the interview I had with Janet with SF-36, I found that my interview was more appealing than SF-36. SF-36 is very strict, and straight to the point, an individual is not given a chance to explain further about their feeling, or an idea about something. In an SF-36 questionnaire, you only tick as per the question, and I believe you do not get the desired expression from the interviewee. An individual might decide to tick any option available because he or she does not understand what is required of her. SF-36 can gather more information although brief because no explanation is needed; hence, it consumes less time compared to a one on one interview.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this meeting with a more seasoned grown-up affirmed my conviction that individuals may have uncertain feelings about the process of aging and what retirement age will resemble for them. Huge numbers of the worries that originated from Janet’s remarks were engaged around nourishing wellbeing, a dread of loss of autonomy, dejection, and conceivably budgetary hardship. For Janet’s worries to be tended to and different worries that more established grown-ups have about the way toward maturing, medical caretakers must be well-prepared communicators and have the learning and aptitudes to give knowledge, instructive devices, and assets for these people to encourage superior progress into retirement and the progressions that happen with the maturing procedure. Janet’s meeting additionally exposed the significance of taking a sensibly sufficient measure of time with every patient. As Janet put it, give it a second thought, in this way giving him, or her, the chance to pose any inquiries that may emerge and to share data that rings a bell as the medical caretaker understanding relationship is being shaped. In spite of Janet’s choices to share an undesirable way of life propensities, she will need support from human services experts as she keeps on maturing and the best thing that we can do as attendants is to be instructed on the best way to help him in the cheerful and satisfying maturing process best.
Works cited
Harman, Denham. “The aging process.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 78.11 (1981): 7124-7128.
Tabloski, Patricia A. Gerontological nursing. New York, NY, USA: Pearson, 2014.