Consider a 12-year-old and 75-year-old have one of the following illnesses:
Question 1
Consider a 12-year-old and 75-year-old have one of the following illnesses:
- COPD
- Asthma
- Heart Failure
- Cancer
- Describe the chronic illness trajectory for the selected illness based on the patient’s age.
- How does the chronically ill patient’s illness trajectory influence the plan of care?
Question 2
Discuss your own philosophy of aging.
- When do you think a person becomes elderly?
- What do you think of older people?
- Are they active, senile, debilitated, etc.?
- Provide a description of an elderly person that you know.