Using the whole family approach with an aging family means doing a psychosocial assessment. In this approach you are generally focusing on two or more people in the family- your elderly client and their primary caretaker (whether doing hands on care or managing the caregiving). What are the  areas you must probe in this psychosocial assessment of a whole family ?

•Past trauma– family history

 

•Sandwich Generation issues

 

•Religious and cultural issues

 

•End of life issues

 

•Quality of Life issues –

 

•Relationship to money