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Case Study: Assessment and Interventions
1. Interview an older adult (60 years or older) who is living with a chronic or terminal
illness or serious disability concerning spiritual status and needs. The older adult could
be family, friend, someone living in a retirement home or someone who is in the hospital.
2. Obtain some basic information from the older adult: Person’s initials, age, sex, ethnicity,
and medical diagnosis. How long have they had the medical diagnosis? Is this person in
the hospital, retirement home, your home; is he/she a family member, friend? How long
have you known this person? What is his/her religion? Do they practice their religion?
If so, how? If not, why not? Do they have accessibility to a minister, chaplain, spiritual
leader of their religion if needed? Do they desire to contact that person? (10 points)
3. Assessment: Complete one of the spiritual Interview an older adult of your choice. These will
be handed out in class. Also complete the Stoll 1979 Assessment tool as well, next page.
(20 points) (Assessment tool provided flowing attachment)
4. Based on these 2 tools, what do you think of your person’s spirituality status?
Determine a spirituality diagnosis:
a. Spiritual distress related to:
b. Spiritual pain related to:
c. Spiritual Alienation related to:
d. Spiritual Anxiety related to:
e. Spiritual Guilt related to:
f.Spiritual Guilt related to:
g. Spiritual Anger related to:
h. Spiritual Loss related to:
i.Spiritual Despair related to:
j.High risk for spiritual distress
k. Spiritual well being; readiness for enhancement
5. Why did you choose this diagnosis? Consider subjective and objective data from
assessment tools (10 points)
6. Spiritual interventions: Identify 5-8 interventions that you did with the person or they
accomplished on their own to enhance their spiritual status. What was the rationale for
these interventions? Any supporting evidence, references? (10 points)
7. Evaluation of spiritual interventions. Interventions worked or not? Through the
interventions was the person’s spiritual status enhanced? (10 points)
8. Reference page and writing style. Please include at list 3 references for this paper. Can
be related to the person’s religion or to the interventions that you are using, (10 points).
(Assessment tool provided flowing attachment, provided sample essay, and class ppt)
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ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTIONS
Introduction
Marilyn is a woman at the age of 65 years old who has been struggling with HIV for almost 7years now. Luckily for her, the life expectancy of someone living with HIV had seen a boost in 2011, which meant that she would be on medication and manage to live normally if she observed what the doctors told her. I had Marylin a couple of times when we were younger as she is related to my friend, and I could accompany them when they went to visit her,
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