INTERVENTIONS OR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

M2 A9 DB: INTERVENTIONS OR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

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Anincreasing number of geriatric patients live in assisted living facilities. Please read this article from The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/emanuel-sex-and-the-single-senior.html?_r=0 and then consider interventions or educational programs that you might suggest for residents of an assisted living facility. Discuss your thoughts with your fellow students.

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”

Points: 30

Due Dates:

• Initial Post: Fri, Apr 9 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.
• Response Post: Sun, Apr 11 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US – (the response posts cannot be done on the same day as the initial post).

References:

• Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
• Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

• Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
• Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Interventions or Educational Programs
Health education and other interventions are critical in helping to improve the health care behavior and self-management for residents of an assisted living facility. Finding effective interventions or education programs can be hectic for frail, older residents of assisted living facilities hence the need to individually tailor such initiatives, making them interactive, applying them continuously, and making them structured. This paper aims to consider interventions or educational programs that might be suitable for this population.
Suggested Interventions/Educational Programs
Interventions or educational programs can help improve health care and reduce risky behavior among residents in assisted living facilities. One of the interventions that can be used to educate this population is the use of printed educational material to complement verbal education about important topics such as safe sex. Posters may be…