Blog # 22: Answer # 3

EQ:
- What is the most important skill of a successful Elder care Activity coordinator?

3rd answer:
- Know the senior patients

3 Evidence:
- If you know who you're dealing with,then it would be easier to respond/deal with them.
- You should be able to know at least the medical history of the senior patient. Usually, elderly have a lot of complications such as Alzheimer's, dementia, heart disease, etc. You need to act accordingly to what they need. Also, mood swings happens a lot to patients that takes medicine.
- In my service learning, I always approach the patients the same. Then one day, one of the patients started crying and I try to comfort her but she got angry at me. I told my service learner, Gabriel Olea, about it and he started telling me that she always do that when she cries. He told me that if she cries you just let her be on her own. But for other senior patients, it's the other way around. You just need to know the patients so you know how to respond to the situation correctly.

3 Sources:
- Article # 18, The elderly patient (book) explained to me that patient medical history And knowing their attitude will help nurses determine how to act or respond to them.
- Article # 39, seniors and the problems they face, help me understand what makes a patient act the way they do, what problems they go through.
- Service learning, Gabriel Olea, told me that certain patients acts differently. And for you to be able to get on their side you must know how they act to people.