week 5 post 2.

Today I had a newly admitted patient, who doesnt speak any english and is 99 yo. wow. Luckily the daughter was there too but she spoke quite shady english. I had to use good visual cues to help the patient understand what I wanted her to do, I was also a little concerned that the daughter would translate something completely different back to the patient. Anyway, we got the patient up and walking eventually and suprisingly she did very well despite her age! The daughter was constantly chattering away to her so was little distracting. I learnt the need to be very simple and literal with your visual and verbal cues.