The scenario
Ms. Alvarez is a 75-year-old woman living alone and managing daily life with support from Meals on Wheels, her church, a distant daughter, and a home health aide.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
01
Set Ms. Alvarez as the single center to anchor the ecomap.
02
Modeled Meals on Wheels and church as strong connections due to daily/weekly reliability.
03
Represented the out-of-state daughter as moderate support because contact is frequent but remote.
04
Marked the senior center connection as broken to reflect mobility-related loss.
05
Used a stressful line for home health aide to highlight schedule friction.
Use this ecomap for geriatric case management to visualize formal services, family, and community ties when assessing an older adult's support network.
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