HOW TO DEAL WITH ELDERLY PEOPLE
Elderly people has a high emotional intelligence.
We have a negative view of the elderly
Elderly = physical decline, diminution of the cognitive capacities with unhappiness, low motivation and social and emotional isolation.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ELDERLY PEOPLE
We don't know what life these people have had,
and what things they carry behind their backs.
We must have in mind, that people have
probably suffered losses, diseases, mourning...
Concepts
CONCEPTS
- RESILIENCE
- ACTIVE AGING
- MOURNING
- VITAL COURSE
- AUTONOMY
- RESILIENCE: ability that a person has to overcome traumatic circumstances, like the death of a familiar, an accident, etc
- ACTIVE AGING: process of optimization of health opportunities, participation and safety, in order to improve the quality of life as people get older.
- MOURNING: psychological process that happens after a loss, an absence, a death or an abandonment. You can suffer different emotional and physical symptoms (anxiety, fear, confusion, depression, emotional shock, etc.)
- VITAL COURSE: process in which any living being is immersed that implies stages, transitions, roles that are lagging behind and are not modifiable by the perspectives of time, process and context.
- AUTONOMY: ability to make decisions based on the values of each and their own history. IMPORTANT: Having limitations to perform self-care activities, does NOT mean inability to make decisions for the life
CONCEPTS
ACTIVITY 1
you have to write in the cardboard how do you think that the elderly people has obtained the ability through experiences lived.
ACTIVITY
LONELINESS
LONELINESS
- Affects a high percentage of older people and significantly and negatively influences their psychological well-being.
- Leads to feelings of hostility, sadness and anxiety, which in turn reactivates neurobiological mechanisms that can damage cognition, emotion, behavior and health, increasing the probabilities of mortality and dependence
ACTIVITY 2
You have to create an "ad" with the aim to raise awareness that older people don't be alone and receive company.
Through videos, photos, posters...
THEORY OF THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION.
THEORY OF THE SOCIAL ADAPTATION
- THEORY OF THE DISSOLVULATION: Older people tend to reduce their social contacts and, therefore, to greater isolation. If the isolation is less, there will be greater satisfaction and happiness.
- THEORY OF THE ACTIVITY: To be happy they need to feel active, they need to be useful. It is important to replace the roles that have been lost. F.E: work, do strong sport activities...
- THEORY OF THE EMPTY OF ROLES: With the old age the most important roles are lost: work, family, social relationships. It can constitute a liberation or, on the contrary, a destructuring of the personality, a lack of connection with society.
ACTIVITY 3
ACTIVITY
In groups of 3, you have to do a role playing with one of the theories
Mental limitations, for example, the generation gap with
young people means that they cannot always be understood.
Physical limitations, because when this people have old age, they have less capacity for doing some specific things, and cities or infrastructures are not always adapted to their needs.
Technological limitations, since it is something that everybody lives today and not all people have the same learning skills.
LIMITATIONS
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
TO BE TRUSTWORTHY: Promise to the person only what you can do. Don't lie them
TO BE CONFIDENTIAL:
It’s important to be STABLE, CHEERFUL, READY TO HELP, CALM, PATIENT.
Don’t take personally the responses of individuals you are helping.
THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND