Female Client Observation Paper

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a. A female client I have observed almost all days of my fieldwork at Essex Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center was Priscilla Smagula. She was ninety-one years old and her diagnosis was left hip fracture. Also, she had dementia. Goals of her were to walk again when asked, request modified assistance with self-feeding and have less spillage, and need modified assistance with ADLs. Her length of stay was five to six weeks but it got changed to ten weeks. The equipment she had was wheelchair, rolling walker, and over the toilet commode. About her family, I found out that she has a daughter who is a nurse. Priscilla got discharge in first week of November and currently she lives in a house with the appointed caregivers.

b. The OT intervention I observed was walking with the help of rolling walker, biking for 30 minutes, rickshaw exercise (2 sets of 20), and seated balloon hits with 20lb bar for 15 minutes. Functional activities that were employed to Priscilla
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I observed Priscilla's physical, emotional, cognitive, and sensory components during the intervention. She followed OT slowly because of dementia and sometimes unable to followed at all. Her appearance was friendly and dressed up. Posture of Priscilla was crooked. She had no static and dynamic balance. ROM was within functional limits and she was a right-handed. Emotionally she was a very calm and happy person. Her tone of voice was within normal limits. I noticed that she could handle slight pain while doing the activity and had lot patience. For example, if the practitioner has to go see another patient. She could wait for the practitioner and not complain. I didn't see her getting frustrated with anything. The cognitive behavior I observed was, Priscilla had a good memory. She shared old memories of her life. There was a time I noticed while talking she would change the subject and talk totally out of the topic. Sensory components I observed was, her sensation was intact and had mild hard of