Student’s Name: __Gido, Claire Alyssa M.

_____________ Date:_September 3, 2022

Year/Block/Group:___UP-FA1-BSN3-13__________ Area of Assignment:__________________

Clinical Instructor:Maria Cecilita C. Lusung, R.N.

Amelita Delos Santos Dumaguin, R.N

Write strategies to help older adults in controlling High blood pressure

based on your client at home or community.

Mr. Manuel Gido, 65 year old male lives in San Agustin, San Manuel, Tarlac has been
diagnose of hypertension due to excessive salt intake and smoking. He loves to eat fatty foods
and salty foods and smoking everyday. Sometimes he felt dizzy when eating too much fatty
foods with salty taste and having headache when the temperature is hot. He can’t handle
150/80 mmHg blood pressure and this makes him dizzy. The doctor advise him take losartan
and cessation to smoking. But sometimes he forgot to take his medicine in time and can’t stop
his self in doing the things that make his blood pressure high.

In eating salty foods and smoking gives him relaxation in his everyday life.The management
for him to controlling his high blood pressure and changing his life styles. I will recommend to
him cessation of smoking and educate him the complications on smoking everyday. Try to
exercise and also to read a book instead of taking a cigarette break. This will help him to relax
and to be healthy.The management in reducing salt intake and fatty foods are getting fresh
foods like vegetables and fruits. Read the nutrition fact labels to make informed decisions and
avoid process foods as possible. This will make him to reduce salt intake and control his blood
pressure in way of eating healthy foods. Get regularly his blood pressure to check if his blood
pressure is okay and to control it everyday. Also I advice him to have an alarm or track the day
when he is taking the medication, so that he can’t forget to take his medicine.