Chronic illness and disabilities

Develop a realistic case and Identify a chronic illness and its relationship to rehabilitation. Could be from a previous experience on your career.

  1. Identify chronic illness and its relationship to rehabilitation.
    Choose from one:
    COPD, CHF, Stroke, Hip fracture
  2. Create interventions that support an older adult’s adaptation to the chronic illness or disability.
  3. Describe the nurse’s role in assisting older adults in managing chronic conditions.
  4. From your readings and knowledge which opportunities do you think can be change in the health care system to improve care for older adults with chronic illness and disabilities.

Submission Instructions:

  • The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation and misspelling.
  • The paper is to be 6 pages in length, excluding the title, abstract and references page.
  • Incorporate a minimum of 3 current (published within last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.
  • Journal articles and books should be referenced according to APA style.

INCLUDE AN ABSTRACT

Answer preview

Stroke cases are more common in the elderly population. The case involves Annalisa Watts, a 69-year-old multiracial woman currently residing in her residential home in Naples, Florida. Before this health incident, Mrs. Watts worked as a part-time educator in one of the local music colleges. Mrs. Watts, who is currently living with her 20 years old granddaughter, Emily Gonstead, lost her husband, Stephen Watts, ten years ago through a horrific accident. A couple had three children together, two males and one female. One son is living abroad, while the rest are now residing in different states in the country. Emily, whose parents reside in North Carolina,

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