The Mini Challenge 2
Team ID : 2016050
The most underrated as well as quite uninteresting but at the same time the most important need of the old age people as of now is meeting the 'everyday needs.'
Management of everyday tasks – it is the small things that help older people lead fuller lives. Many services are considered too focused, and yet many of the activities of daily life that become problematic, are minor things that have been previously managed by individuals in the past. People worry about how to cope with many seemingly small tasks in daily living (i.e. dealing with banks, answering letters, managing PIN numbers, reliability of workers, using smartphones, crossing roads, etc).
To Do or to Have? That Is the Question - You may give your old parents and grandparents every kid of financial comfort and yet they may complain inside of the unease. At the end of the day what matters most is not the materialistic needs that you met but the experience always counts much more.
Case Study: Mr A is a 75-year-old man who has started living alone in a wooded rural area since his wife's death a year ago. His past medical history includes orthostatic hypotension and unsteadiness, due to autonomic dysfunction, and peptic ulcer disease. Although he is independently competent in his financial duties, Mr A prudently can't manage doing his daily household chores. He relied on a paid caregiver or his daughter for transportation. When his daughter left on an extended business trip and his paid caregiver married and was less available, his social network became very thin. During this period, Mr A couldn't manage the duties on his own, seemed strident and impulsive when seen by visiting nurses, fell more often, and finally called a suicide help line reporting that he was contemplating shooting himself. He was briefly hospitalized. During the psychiatric intake interview, Mr A reported feeling lonely and a recent lack of knowledge and motivation to do the daily duties. His daughter was stunned by these events. “He has never done anything like this before,” she said, and resolved to re-engage in her father's daily life. She also promised to manage the paid caregiver visits or to replace the caregiver. Since renewed attention was given to Mr A and his care, there has been no further mention of, or acts of, self-harm. There have been no recent attempts to end his life or so.
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