Chronic Disease Assignment

Chronic Disease Health Promotion and Maintenance/for adults age 35–65

Chronic Disease

Pick One chronic disease from the list below. Write a 2–3-page paper discussing the concepts of health promotion, health maintenance, health restoration and health teaching to an adult patient with this chronic disease. Be sure to integrate Evidence Based Practice into your discussion.

Hypertension
Diabetes Mellitus

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Health and disease promotion programs are programs that focus on ensuring that patients of a certain age or disease condition are healthy through the laid down health intervention measures. The promotion measures ensure that the clients are empowered and engaged and ready to choose more healthy behaviors (Chai et al., 2018). The aim is to ensure that there is a reduced risk of the client’s developing chronic diseases and other morbidities. This task looks at a health promotion program for the elderly patents aged 35 to 65. Using evidence-based practice, this task will present a Family Nurse Practitioner Program with a focus on diabetes mellitus for elderly patients between 35 to 65 years.
Health Promotion
The role of a Family Nurse Practitioner in promoting health and wellness is clear-cut. The nurse has to provide primary care services for the elderly patients, undertake weekly checks so as to assess whether the patients need any better intervention programs,…