older person ageing health
Nirasharma
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ASSESSMENT ITEM 1 GUIDELINES: Essay
Please read these guidelines in addition to the marking matrix.
Objectives: Learning Objective: A, B, C, D and E
Graduate Ability: 2, 3 and 4 (Person Centred Care; Communication and Collaboration; Knowledge Use and Translation)
ANMC Competency: 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Weighting: 45%
Length: 1500 words (this does not include the appendices)
Task: This essay is based on a discussion with an older person about their experiences of the ageing process. Following this discussion, your essay will outline the person’s needs (from their perspective) and then the key supports you could put in place to enhance their support and to enable healthy ageing. The steps involved are described below:
Commence writing your essay covering the following key areas:
· Introduction: Describe your understanding of person-centred care within the context of healthy ageing.
· Critical reflection of your discussion with an older person: this should contain evidence of the consideration of the principles of person-centred care around the narrative gained from your discussion. Following this, you should outline the key issues (positive or negative) identified from the older person’s perspective.
· Critical review of current literature: this should contain evidence of analysis of various viewpoints and research findings in relation to the issues described by the older person (if they describe many, just choose at least 2 (no more than 2) to work with for this essay).
· A minimum of six (6) high-level journal papers published since 2015 is necessary for an adequate literature review. All articles must be outlined within a summary table using the headings provided below (NB: a template using these headings is available on UTS Online):
· Authors / Study design / Sample / Intervention / Findings and Implications
· Please attach this summary as Appendix 2 to your essay (NB: this summary table is not included in your word count)
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Intervention |
Findings |
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List authors according to Harvard
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Eg, Randomised controlled trial, cohort study, descriptive, non-randomised trials etc |
Eg, Sample description (number of participants, age, gender etc), inclusion and exclusion criteria |
What did the study do and why did they choose this approach? |
What did the study find following their intervention? |
What evidence does this study provide to inform and support your care planning for this older person? |
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· Discussion: this should describe how to implement care based on the information provided from your discussion and the literature reviewed. You should consider what key supports you could put into place for this older person now and in the future. Please, include issues of a multidisciplinary team involvements and how you could best support healthy ageing for this person in their current residential location. Recommendations for evidence based best practice should be discussed. The persons locality must be outlined with services/resources available and any challenges that exist in relation to implementing your care plan in this setting. Furthermore, possible ways to manage these challenges should be provided.
· Conclusion: this should tie together your main arguments made above.
Covering summery of one-page Appendix includes these points:
Step 1: Think about 1 older person who you could have a conversation with (for those who do not have anyone they know locally, a conversation over the phone is fine)
Step 2: Outline the purposes of this assignment to the older person to see if they would be happy to participate. Please refer to the information sheet provided to assist this step.
Step 3: Have a discussion (and take brief notes) with the older person based around a few key questions (you can adapt or expand on these):
1. Could you tell me a little about yourself? What does healthy ageing mean to you?
2. What do you see as your strengths in relation to your health and wellbeing? What are some of the challenges?
3. Looking back how have the things you enjoyed changed over the years? What brings you enjoyment now?
4. Does anything stop you from doing the activities you enjoy?
5. Do you foresee any need now or in the future for support or resources that can assist you to continue to age well?
Step 4: Immediately following this discussion, write a detailed summary of the conversation for your records. Please attach a one-page summary of this as Appendix 1 to your essay (not included in the word count).
Assignment purpose
The purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate their ability to identify and describe issues of concern for an older person, access and critically analyse the literature, select appropriate articles and prepare a critical analysis of the topic area. This will enable students to adopt and incorporate evidence-based interventions in future practice. In addition, students will be able to demonstrate their ability to write clearly and succinctly to reflect their understanding of the topic. Students will receive feedback as per the marking criteria and within the paper.
