Case Study Mdm Lim lives in a one-room HDB in Ang Mo Kio She is 65 years old and lives with his 72 years old husband: Older People’s Care Assignment, SUSS, Singapore

Case Study outline: Mdm Lim lives in a one-room HDB in Ang Mo Kio. She is 65 years old and lives with his 72 years old husband. She has 2 sons who stay overseas. She had a fall 1year ago and undergo total hip replacement surgery. Since then, she was mainly home-bound ambulatory with a walking frame.

She was working as a cleaner in SMRT prior to her fall but resigned after and is currently jobless. Her main caregiver is his husband who will help her to run errands and assist in basic needs.

Mdm Lim does not have a significant past medical history:

• Examine the relationship between the aging population and the health care priorities within nursing practice today.
• Evaluate evidence-based for the assessment, planning, and evaluation of holistic and compassionate care for older adults and their families.
• Evaluate the concept of healthy aging and the national and international strategies for health promotion.
• Critically explore the effectiveness of nursing theories and approaches to working with older people who have complex needs. Summative assessment will be in the form of an essay that will examine the theoretical and legislative perspective of positive approaches to nursing care that support older people making use of the agreed case study to demonstrate the application of this knowledge.

This assignment will also include a 1,000-word plan of care relating to the case study submitted as the formative element (LO 3). Summative assessment is the final, marked assessment that contributes to 100% of your mark for this module.

A summative assignment is required to be aligned to your module learning outcomes and marked in line with the success criteria which is available in this assessment handbook.

There are two main sections to this summative assessment and these are: Essay:

The essay is based on the case example you have used in your formative assignment and will be the base on which you demonstrate your understanding and application of theory to inform and guide practice included in the module. Aging theory and nursing theory. The theories selected should promote positive approaches to working with older people.

The second part of this essay will be the completion of a care plan that demonstrates your awareness of applicable health assessment including the dimensions of health, planning of care, and suggested interventions that will improve health outcomes.