Discussion Week 11

Instructions:

This week you are learning quite a bit regarding the older adults’ experience with cardiovascular, pulmonary and neurological problems. According to the CDC, 60% of older adults are living with two or more chronic conditions. This starts to become a challenge as you manage and educate multiple conditions and let’s not forget the polypharmacy involved (NIA, n.d.).

Reference: National Institute on Aging. (n.d.).

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved from https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/supporting older-patients-chronic-conditions

Initial Post Requirements:

Please critically evaluate the subjective and objective information provided to you in the attached file below, and use the SOAP template as a reference.

1? The first part of the discussion board is to identify all pertinent positive and, negative information and list missing information. Then create a differential diagnosis list with at least 3 possibly actual diagnosis based on your findings. Here are the headings you should use:

• Pertinent positives
• Pertinent negatives
• Missing information
• Differential diagnoses

2? The second part is to create a plan utilizing clinical practice guidelines for the priority diagnosis. Here are the headings you should use:

• Diagnostics
• Therapeutics
• Educational
• Consultation/Referrals

Be sure to utilize the template, in-text citations and provide full reference citation at the end of the discussion.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.