Trends
Transitions
Caregiver Considerations
Therapeutic Interventions
Therapeutic Considerations
100
79
What is life expectancy for women
100
Majority of the presenting problems therapists face upon the initial meeting of an older client
What is role transitions?
100
70%
What is amount of women caregivers?
100
Emphasizes clients as the experts on their own lives and that they have the ability to make it through any difficult time and find their own solutions
What is solution-focused therapy?
100
Older adults may not be as ________ as children and society tend to think they are.
What is dependent?
200
Each generation is smaller, but there are more generations alive at any one time withmore years between generations
What is a Beanpole family?
200
involves a renegotiation of relationships, boundaries, and meaning for life, often met with mixed responses
What is retirement?
200
correlated with higher levels of depression, suppressed anger, and lower life satisfaction
What is caregiver expressed emotion?
200
Bolster caregivers’ skills, address issues such as family conflict, managing difficult behavior, and dealing with relationship loss
What is purpose of interventions?
200
May be necessary in assessing and helping older clients with many aspects of their lives
What is collaboration with other professionals?
300
As a result, older adults may find themselves embedded ina complex web of ties with biological and step-children, and children-in-law.
What is cumulative effect of family formation
300
may emerge in the context of such role transitions as older clients attempt to renegotiate relationships with each other and families.
What are unresolved intergenerational issues?
300
emphasizes the role of family relationships and of caregiver resources in moderating stress and negative outcomes of providing care
What is stress process?
300
Can be helpful for older clients and their families struggling with role transitions and other problems as it can add another dimension and broader perspective
What is intergenerational family therapy?
300
The decision to place an elder in a nursing home is not an event, but ________. And often comes with guilt and a loss of independence on the caregiver and receipient, respectively.
What is a process?
400
Knowing someone is 75 no longer tells us much more than the year they were born, each person's individual situation needs to be considered.
What is heterogeneous population?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! EVERYONE PLAYS!! In your small group please answer and discuss what power of attorney is. When, if at all, would you bring this up with a family in session? How do you envision structuring the conversation? What dynamics would be at play?
Share thoughts with class
400
This population is typically third in line to take on caregiver role. Under which circumstances does this tend to occur?
What is sons; absence of female sibling?
400
Helps to facilitate open communication on topics such as death and dying, nursing home placement issues, physical illness, and family relationships
What is Group Therapy?
400
Need to check and continually reassess their values and beliefs about the older community.
What are therapists?
500
Two components that have contributed to families today being smaller.
What is starting a family later and decrease in fertility?
500
Older clients have likely developed coping strategies to help them handle adversity
What is resilience?
500
Were more likely to report being afraid of acting violently toward their relative, and spouse caregivers were more likely to have acted violently
What is caregiver who lived with care-recipient?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! EVERYONE PLAYS!!! Taking into account what you know about depression in general and in conjunction with aging discuss the following and possible interventions you might use. Think outside the box: A male client, age 70 has recently retired. He is a widower, whose wife passed 5 years ago. He states that he is very close with his children, but only sees them at Christmas and the family's annual summer vacation. He has 2 daughters and 1 son with 5 grandchildren between them. He presents that he has had trouble sleeping in the pass 6 months and overall feeling of exhaustion. He states he has never had any major illness and on the recommendation of his physician he came in to see you... so you can "fix" him.
Share thoughts with class
500
Does not occur in a vacuum and can often be found in past generational familial patterns.
What is elder abuse?
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