Older Adult Life Review Paper

This assignment involves conducting a thorough life review interview with an older adult to better understand aging across the lifespan. Through guided, respectful dialogue, students will explore key life events, roles, relationships, strengths, and challenges that have shaped the individuals health, identity, and well-being. Emphasis is placed on listening without judgment and recognizing how social determinants of healthsuch as culture, socioeconomic status, access to care, trauma, and support systemsinfluence life experiences and aging outcomes. This activity supports person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive nursing care while strengthening communication, empathy, and clinical judgment skills essential for practice with older adults. CO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Deliverable

• Interview an older adult who is at least 70 years of age or greater.
• Plan to spend three to four interview sessions with the older adult
• Initial meeting will be getting to know the person and developing a relationship
• You must inform the individual that this is a school assignment. While you will write about the interview, no identifying information will be used. Use initials or a first name only, which may be fictitious, in your paper.
• You may interview a family member, friend, neighbor, or other acquaintance.
• Ideally, the interview is conducted in person; however, phone or video options are appropriate when in-person participation is limited by access, mobility, health, or other barriers.

*Specific questions to guide the interview:

Refer to the following video example for an interview:

Guidelines

Length: 1250 words or ~ 5 pages excluding a title page and references page.

Structure: Use appropriate APA style and format including a title and reference page which do not count toward the minimal word amount for this assignment. Level of writing should reflect that of a student enrolled in a BSN program*

References: Be sure to support all work using appropriate APA 7th ed formatting for in-text citations and references.