Calgary Family Assessment Model in Healthcare

Calgary Family Assessment Model in Healthcare
Essay Introduction
CFAM (Calgary Family Assessment Model) is a tool utilized by health care specialists to evaluate the overall wellbeing of a family. It is concerned with the structure of the family, the interaction of the family members, their medical background, health status, and the environmental aspects that may influence the welfare of a family directly or indirectly. It allows a functional estimation of the family and enables providing guidelines how to improve the core functioning of it.
 Structure: Extended Family
The CFAM was used to assess the family X. The family members gave their verbal permission for analyzing and compiling the evaluation of their family; however, their names have been omitted for the ethical reasons. The family members have been living in the United States; though, they originally come from Spain. They have lost connection with their other relatives when moving from Spain to the States and despite the fact that they made several attempts to make bonds with the rest of the family, they were incapable of doing so due to the reason that their relatives presumably moved to Finland. For that cause, the family is not aware enough of their medical history.
The family lives in Seattle, Washington, in the neighboring communities to be able to communicate with each other freely. At present, the family is not that extended due to several deaths that occurred during the past five years (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). S. X is a forty-nine-years-old male who lives together with his wife S. S. The couple has been married for almost fifteen years, and this is the only marriage for both of them. The couple got married in 2001 and gave birth to their daughter A. X one year after that. At present, A. X is thirteen. She will be fourteen in November. A. X lives together with her parents and studies at a community school. Every weekend she visits her grandmother and stays there for a sleepover. S. S is a forty-one-year-old female. The woman communicates with her mother-in-law that lives in the neighboring community. However, she does not know much about her relatives while she was raised in a shelter after both of her parents died in an accident. S. X and S. S are planning to have one more child next year if their family doctor approves of S. S’s health status.
P. X is S. X’s father that died two years ago at the age of seventy. P. X was ill with type 2 diabetes for ten years, though, he used to conduct an active way of life. He took prescription drugs, maintained a balanced diet and got the glucose level measured according to the treatment plan. However, during the last two years of life, P. X started leading a sedentary lifestyle and suffered from hypertension (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). J. X is S. X’s elder sister. She is fifty-years-old. J. X used to live with her husband B. M. They split up three years ago and now J. X lives with her and S X’s mother. She has no children of her own.
P. X had a brother, T. X, who died at the age of one for unknown reasons. M. P is S. X and J. X’s mother and P X’s wife. She is seventy-two and lives in the neighborhood. S. X and S. S visit her every week and her granddaughter A. X visits M. P every weekend. M. P has a deep bond with her family, and the connection between them has intensified after her husband’s health. The woman can be considered quite healthy (Wright & Leahey, 2012). She has some age-related health issues such as worsened eyesight, back pains, worsened memory; nevertheless, the woman takes the necessary blood tests and regular checks to monitor her health status.
G. X, S. X’s grandfather, was G. G’s husband. They got married when they were both twenty-years-old. They returned to Spain, and the family did not have an opportunity to keep in touch with them. They both died five years ago from natural causes. G. G died five months later after her husband did. Nothing else is known about the relatives as according to the family, they could not contact anyone after G. X and G. G’s deaths.
S. X visits their family doctor systematically as his father had type 2 diabetes, and S. X has increased sugar level and hypertension. He used to keep an imbalanced high fat and calorie diet, and he found out that he has increased levels of cholesterol and sugar in his blood (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). Since that time he regularly exercises and eats sufficient amounts of vegetables, in addition, he takes prescription drugs. At present, the man evaluates his health status as generally good. However, recently he has noticed that after workouts he feels discomfort in his knees and the sacrum area. The man links the pain to physical exercises, and he has decided to reduce the frequency and intensity of the workouts and substitute them with aerobic training. In addition, it was