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