Elder Interview INTERVIEWING FORMAT Place of Meeting: In the elder house. Identify one communication barrier: The participant indicated that she has suffered two strokes in recent years. Although her speech is clear, she did indicate that at times she has difficulty remembering and that I may need to give her time to fully understand a question. Describe your perspective of the client's response to the interview: I was happy that she was so alert

perceptions about well elders who live independently within the community. Perceptions about well elders tend to skew two ways: some people assume that age equals disability, so that even well-elders are treated as being incapable of self-care, while others fail to recognize that even well-elders face significant health risks. By focusing on a well-elder as an individual, the author used the interview technique to discover the assets and liabilities

126). Although there are an increasing number of elderly in the United States today with many more expected in the future, the study of elder abuse is of fairly recent origin. During the last three decades of the 20th century, following the "discovery" of child abuse and domestic violence, scholars and professionals started taking an active interest in the subject of elder abuse. This increased attention from the academic

Sometimes, studies show that elderly patients are perceived not to be in pain because they do not complain about pain, or that the perceive it differently than younger people. In both receptive and non-receptive patients, one can observe facial tics and/or grimaces, blood pressure (elevated blood pressure sometimes indicates more pain), body temperature, and even mobility. For the functional patient, assessment can be done by observation of body movement, gait,

Elder Learning Service By taking part in "Elder Learning Service," one can learn much from the experience. In fact, this is becoming a growing phenomenon both academically and within the community itself. All the research points to the positive impact of how much it empowers individuals into becoming better citizens by becoming self-aware of those that are in need. A service learning service was designed for high school students entitled, "Carrying

Moreover, older persons perform less accurately on the witness stand, the authors continue. One particular study of 51 senior citizens and 62 college students reflected the fact that the older people "forgot more details and were more easily swayed by suggestions from the people administering the test, as compared with college students" (Gaydon, 679). These seniors were not suffering from Alzheimer's or any other malady; they just didn't have a