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Please respond to a minimum of two peers’ initial posts.
Your reply post should include strategies for adapting the environment and the health assessment techniques in order to best facilitate the provider-patient relationship and an effective health assessment.
Each reply post should include at least two scholarly sources to support your suggested strategies.
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Mr. Smith is a 92-year-old male white American who was brought in by ambulance due to a tripped and fall accident at the parking lot when walking to the car from his doctor’s office accompanied by his 80-year-old wife, and he sustained right intertrochanteric fracture. Mr. Smith and his wife are hard of hearing and noted that Mr. Smith did not have his hearing aids for both ears.
Many elderly suffer from sensory deficits, and it can be a challenge for Mr. Smith and healthcare providers to effectively communicate with a person who has sensory deficit such as difficulty hearing on top of the current injury, he sustained that puts him in the state of great discomfort. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (2023), many people with hearing deficits require an interpreter or different communication approach, services, and aid to navigate the healthcare industry and to effectively communicate with providers, and barriers in communication related to hearing loss or inability to hear has been “linked to poorer health status,” and report of dissatisfaction with physician-patient communication and may be the contributing factor to not get health advisements and care. Furthermore, the University of California San Francisco (2024), indicated that effective communication needs efforts of all individuals involved in a conversation, like Mrs. Smith will also partake in the conversation with the providers, but her hearing difficulty will also add to a heightened frustrations and fear. Additionally, there has been an association between hearing loss and misdiagnosis leading to longer hospital stay, lack of communication accessibility, increased falls resulting in complications and high cost of hospital stay, and risk to physician-patient communication resulting in decreased post discharge adherence and increased readmission (2017, Mormer, et al.).
