Blog 10: Senior Project Update

1. I am currently putting in more hours for my independent research component with my mentor, Erick Gochez.

2. An important piece of research that I have used in the past few weeks in a book that I checked out at the library. It's called "Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities", and it's a very valuable piece of research. It is giving me insight on how else to choose and Assisted Living Facility, so I can answer my EQ.

3. Pretty much through my work I've been learning on how to deal with residents, which is important because having a good relationship with staff members is a key factor in choosing a facility.

Blog 5b

1) My Topic is Assisted Living.
2) The driving problem behind my experiment is that the higher class area the Assisted Living Facility is the more the facility will cost.
3) My hypothesis is "If the location of the Assisted Living facility is in a high class area, the cost of the facility will go up."
4) I plan on doing my experiment by defining what a "High Class" area is, as well as "Middle Class", and "Low Class", and finding facilities in those areas, and finding out the price of the facilities in those areas. Then I will make graphs and stuff comparing the prices of the various facilities.

Blog 9: Working EQ and possible answers

1) The working EQ I used during my presentation was "What is the most important factor in choosing an assisted living facility?"

2) I have chose to keep my working EQ the same.

3) Some possible answers for my EQ could be what I presented in my powerpoint; Health, Location, Cost, Staff Members, and Releationships with other residents. I think the actual answer would be a combination of all five of this, and would be the overall atmosphere.

Blog 8: Rough Draft Presentation 1

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QEiG4_LElDpkdsQw3Vhn-oPQHL4EttUttkHRIR19CG8/edit

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Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

Content:

1. I plan to work along side my mentor for my Independent component.

2. My plan will meet the 30 hours of required work required because I work under my mentor.

3. Have we made a working EQ yet? I don't think we have.

Blog 6: Second Interview Questions

1. How long have you worked in your field?
2. What did you do beforehand?
3. How many residents currently live in the Assisted Living section of this facility?
4. Have you worked at any other facilities besides the one you work at now? What were your experiences there?
5. What made you decide to do what you are doing now?
6. Do you enjoy what you are doing?
7. What exactly are your responsibilities?

SF Blog A: Problem Statement

My topic is Care Giving, and a problem within Care Giving is accessibility. Not all transportation is cheap, and I want to find a way to make transportation cheaper for the elderly who need to get from place to place. What I would do after I hopefully make this possible is make this transportation cheap and accessible to all peoples who need it.

Another problem that I have read about is stress on the Care Giver. Stress leads to depression which can lead to other diseases. What I would do to help solve this is make sure all Care Givers have a backup, and make sure they have at least one off day to themselves, where someone can come make sure that the person they are taking care of is okay. After I accomplish this, I would publish my findings so that more people would learn how to cope with the everyday stress caused by Care Giving.

Working EQ

The Pentagon:
1) A positive thing that has happened so far is that I have learned more of what my mom went through taking care of my grandma, so I can connect with her more.

2) During my interview Mr. Conners told me he had to learn to cook because his mother could not anymore. I realized that in certain situations care giving covers all aspects of life.

3) Most everything that I have done has contributed one way or another to my overall understanding of the senior project.

4) It's too early in the senior project for me to determine what hasn't worked yet.

5)

• Some questions to what I would like to study is how much effort actually goes into care giving
• My end goal with my senior project would have to be to understand the amount of emotional pain that care givers go through caring for the ones they love.
• I would like to talk to a nurse in a nursing home, because I feel that they have a completely different aspect of care giving, because when they start the have little to no connection with the patient.

Interview Preperation

1. I plan to interview a good friend of mine, Micheal Conners. I plan on interviewing him because he is a care giver, and has been taking care of his disabled mother for 3 years now.

2. Additional questions I plan on ask to Mr. Conners are:

•     How does he handle all the stress?
•     What does he do to make his job easier?
•     How did he get into care giver?
•     Why he chose to be the primary care giver for his mother?

Care Giving

a. I chose my senior topic to be Care Giving because it hits very close my heart. I recently lost my Great-Grandmother to old age. She was taken care of by my mother, who is a profession caregiver, for the last 8 years of her life. I had helped with the duties for the last 3 years.

b.

iPoly Citizen: I plan to give back to the community. Helping anybody who needs care given to them is an effective way to demonstrate this.

Effective Communicator: I plan to be in contact with the people who need the care. This will make me more effective as a communicator because I have to be able to be patient, and listen to the people talking. Then I have to talk and make sure they understand what I am saying.

Effective Learner: I plan to again be in contact with people. I will learn to be patient, again, and patience is a virtue.

Effective User of Technology: I plan to keep logs of what I am doing. This requires me doing the logs on the computer, plus I have to be in contact just in case of an emergency.

Blog #1 Summer Mentorship

    Literal (Know)

·       July 14th-July 31st: Waking up every morning helping my mother take care of my grandmother(My mom is a professional caregiver for the state of California) doing a variety of things from making breakfast, to making her bed, cleaning the restroom etc. She still has an opened wound from her multiply hernia surgeries and is recovering from MRSA. 

        Everyday from 9AM-12PM

·       Waeka Stout 909-851-8263

    Literal (Need to know)   

     What really goes into taking care of someone in need? What kind of supplies are needed? How much experience is actually needed to become an "expert" caregiver.

   Interpretive

     I learned compassion, that having a heart for people in need is the best thing in the world.

   Applied

     I'm still iffy on what I want to do for my senior project, but this helped me narrow my decisions to just a few.