how could you promote individuality in elderly care?

Answer 1

going to an elderly home and help by volenteering there. there is not enough workers in this field or enough people to spend 2 or 3 hours a week at a home where they can help with meals, arts and crafts reading to those with poor eyesight

Answer 2

Delhi may be the capital city of India also called New Delhi and locally Dilli. Delhi is the main arrival level for offshore tourists and you can be certainly one of that tourist; have a look with hotelbye . One of the areas many visited in Delhi could be the Bahai Temple. That Temple is based atop the Kalkaji Hill and it is also called "The Lotus Temple" due to its distinctive lotus formed design in marble. Bahai Temple was built in 1987 by the followers of Bahai faith. The Temple signifies the love and equality of religions. Still another place to visit in Delhi is Gandhi Smiriti. In that museum are shown: photographs, sculptures, paintings, frescos, inscriptions on rocks and relics pertaining to the decades Mahatma Gandhi spent here. The meagre personal aftereffects of Gandhiji too are cautiously preserved.

Answer 3

basically this about looking at the individual and their beliefs, personal preferences and personality rather than viewing them as a set of tasks to be met. the nursing frameworks such as roper and tierney encourage patient assessment on all aspects and suggest providing interventions to meet the holistic needs of the person.

Answer 4

hit people with walking stikx & yell "ims diffarant i telz ye" "scallywagz"

Answer 5

The same way you promote individuality in any care: LISTEN to the individual clients, and ACT on their needs, likes, choices, desires, and individual qualities.

Every human being is unique. Society lumps us into groups (e.g. teenaged, female, criminal, child, disabled, confident, elderly, Roman Catholic, homosexual, Canadian, absent-minded, Somalian, obese, homeless, musically gifted, illegal alien, SAHM, schizophrenic, etc...). There's a concept in Sociology, called 'master-status'. A person's 'master-status' colours ALL perceptions of that individual, to the point of making the 'master-status' all anyone sees.

In the UK, and USA, 'Muslim' is a very negative 'master-status'. People tend to forget that people may adhere to Islam, but they are PEOPLE, first.

Gender-roles are based on the 'master-status' of whether a human being is female or male. The whole world is crippled with this dualistic view, rather than comprehending that humanity is what we have in COMMON, and the very trivial (genetically, 1 out of 46 genes is different) difference, between female and male demeans each individual human being.

If a fair-skinned person moves to a neighbourhood where everyone else is dark-skinned,that person's 'master-status' is 'White'. There are a host of stereotypes which go with 'White'. Unless people ENGAGE with the individual, and IGNORE the colour of his/her skin, this person is diminished as an individual human being.

In an elder-hostel, or when doing elder-care, the human beings who are receiving care are... well... 'elderly'. There are assumptions people make about 'the elderly'. I'll list some, because this is pretty important -- especially to them:
-Weak, fragile, prone to illness, suffering, in pain.
-Degenerating, wearing out, dying, 'living on borrowed time'.
-Unable to remember things, mentally unreliable, mentally feeble.
-Need attention, seek attention, not as sick as they seem, hypochondriac.
-Mentally unable to take in new concepts, set in their ways.
-Looking toward the past, not part of the future.
-Not able to learn, or not interested in learning.
-Asexual, prudish, antiquated moral values.
-Past falling in love, 'past their prime', don't want/need company.
-Unable to drive, shop, care for themselves.
-Used to their friends dying, ready to die.
-Lonely, bitter, sad, tired, depressed, depressing.
-Need tons of medication.
-Take too much medication.
-Eccentric, difficult, stubborn, fussy, want things their way.
-Indifferent, pathetic, pliable, need to be told what they need.
-'Burdens' on family and society, useless, noncontributing, wastes of space.

Obviously, many of those stereotypes are contradictory. That alone should be enough to prove them specious.

The 'burden' thing is often internalised by elderly people, who may think they are greater 'burdens' than their family do.

No doubt, if you've worked with elderly people, you've encountered all of those stereotypes, and more.

I encourage you to be a role-model to everyone who works with you, by treating every elderly person as an individual.

What is 'elderly'? On her 60th birthday, my female parent went out and bought a pair of leather trousers, and some black hi-top Reeboks -- the first (only) 'little old lady' on her block in Lower Manhattan, to own hi-tops, let alone leather trousers! That was 22 years ago. She was brought up a Brahmin, in New Delhi, born in 1924, under the Raj.

She said, and I quote verbatim, 'Sixty? What does that mean? It is still my eyes, looking out from behind my face, just as they did when I was SIX years old'.

At 82, she feels the same. Her body has been ill a bit, but she is well again, and she and my Auntie (84) in India, still laugh like teenage girls, about everything from their aches and pains, to sex, to THEIR mother.

To promote individuality, you need to ignore the 'master-status', and let the PEOPLE be themselves. This is a bit harder than it seems, because they have internalised all the stereotypes their own generation/s held, about elderly people.

-Do encourage individuals to find personal interests.
-Do help as many individuals as possible to become Internet-literate.
-Do ask whether there is something your client/s regret never learning, and encourage them to learn it, provided it's safe (but if it's skiing, there are Playstation skiing games, and Air Traffic Control games, and they can't break bones, but they can become excellent skiers!).
-Do encourage individuals to vary their routines by learning one new thing. (At 75, nearly dead from cancer, my male parent had his first opportunity to go to Alaska. He sat down with a book, and studied Inuit. He came back positively thrilled, because he had seen so much stuff he never knew).
-Do insist your client/s keep up with the news -- world news, as much as possible.
-Do play games slightly more challenging than your client/s think they can manage, but within their area of interest. Electronic games are also good for this.
-Do encourage social functions, if you work in an elder hostel, to which everyone is invited, and expected to look her/his individual best. Encourage dancing, flirting, LAUGHING, talking of different PERSONAL experiences (not about kids' and grandkids' lives) -- which means putting people from different backgrounds and cultures together, to talk to each other.
-Do support any and all efforts at independence, so long as they are physically safe.
-Do encourage home-bound, especially single, elderly folk to have pet dogs or cats. Numerous studies have proven conclusively, that stroking another live being improves health, mood, and longevity.
-In consultation with your client/s doctors, definitely try to minimise (within the boundaries of safety), the quantity and dosages of medications. Many elderly people are zombies because they are given so much medication, and don't even know what it is all supposedly for. To the extent possible, HELP your client/s learn and remember what each tablet, injection, etc. is meant to treat. It is THEIR medication, and THEY have a right to know. (Even our generation tends to follow doctors as though they had some mystical knowledge).
-Do help your client/s to stop thinking of themselves and each other as their 'master-status', and think of themselves as they always did: as unique, individual, people.

I hope that helped. Good luck.