As a faculty member who loves to teach interactively, I find enjoyment when the classroom provides a, “disorienting dilemma” or a brand new experience that truly causes the students to pause and think of something in a new way. Below are pictures from the Older Adult Simulation morning in our Care of Older Adult Class. A nurse who is in charge of geriatrics for the city of Kettering, Ohio comes and provides the training for our students which is the same training she provides for all public servants for the city of Kettering. The students often cite this as one of their favorite and most effective learning experiences from the class. See below with some of the pics and the situations that students found themselves in. First pic, trying to read a telephone book and dial a mobile phone with neuropathy in your hands and cataract goggles on. Second, with the same limitations trying to fill your pill box for the week. Third, coping with taste changes as an older adult. Fourth, trying to read as an older adult with cataracts and blind spots.
I have to read a page with cataracts!
Experiencing taste changes of older adults..may not be so great.
May not be easy to fill the weekly pill box with peripheral neuropathy and cataracts.
Reading telephone numbers and trying to dial those new fancy flip phones may not be easy for an older adult