Care for elderly people
There is rapid growth of aging population in most of the society and they need quality mental health. Elderly people face numerous challenges due to the physical and cognitive limitations. Providing counselling to aging people is not to control instead to empower them to fight with mental ailments. The primary objective of counselling is to involve seniors in a process whereby they can be helped. Several counselling techniques seeks to allow them express their feelings about their lives without any attempt to impose the counsellor’s own ideas and views. Elderly people seek advice of primary care physician first when they experience psychological problems like anxiety, depression. Elderly clients may complaint about sleep disturbance, headaches, loss of appetite, or weight change. Counsellors will comprehend their problems and prepare case report to what extent client symptoms are due to psychological factors and biochemical disturbance. The general psychologic...