NU665C Geriatric Case Study Transcript Scenario: Molly is a 66-year-old, biracial woman living in an inner-city suburb with her husband and two children. She comes today accompanied by her husband and daughter who have been concerned about increasingly odd behaviors. Molly has had previous diagnoses of schizophrenia, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She says she first started hearing voices around the age of 8 years old. She has spent a great deal of her life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and this is where she said she started smoking cigarettes. Molly said that she has smoked over a pack a day for most of her life and had switched to using nicotine patches and gum in her middle 50s.

NU665C Geriatric Case Study Transcript Scenario: Molly is a 66-year-old, biracial woman living in an inner-city suburb with her husband and two children. She comes today accompanied by her husband and daughter who have been concerned about increasingly odd behaviors. Molly has had previous diagnoses of schizophrenia, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She says she first started hearing voices around the age of 8 years old. She has spent a great deal of her life in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and this is where she said she started smoking cigarettes. Molly said that she has smoked over a pack a day for most of her life and had switched to using nicotine patches and gum in her middle 50s.

Geriatric Case Study Assignment

Introduction

The patient considered is Molly who is 66 years old. She is living with her husband and two children who are moving out in the following month. She is accompanied by her husband and her daughter with the complaint of having concern about the rise of odd behaviors of the patient. In the past, she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The initial time that Molly heard of voices was when she was around 8 years old and has continuously been in psychiatric health. She points out that she has been smoking for almost all her life but from her mid-50s she started making use of nicotine patches and gum. This paper presents the assessment of the geriatric patient and the treatment plan of the patient. 

Important information missing from the case study

The process of decision-making on the future actions that are to be taken to help the patient is supposed to be based on the information that is provided. In the scenario, there is an extensive amount of information that is still needed for the decision on what is to be done on the activities that should be implemented for handling the best plan of care for the patient. The information is necessary to ensure that healthcare providers make the right choice for the patient.

One of the information needed is on the kind of medications that are being used by the patient at the moment as well as the medication that was used in the past for the management of her health. There is a need as well for the time that the patient started having the odd behaviors to be mentioned. The time that the condition worsened will help in the determination of whether the patient has any health complications. The information on any other symptoms of the physical being of the patient as well is necessary….