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In twelve pages this research paper discusses the impact of aging not only on the elderly member of the family but on the family i...
osteoarthritis (Alper, 1998). Nicholas DiNubile, an orthopedic consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ba...
emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...
The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...
In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...
In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
In four pages the article appearing in Lancet involving the epidemiologic issue dementia may pose for the elderly is reviewed and ...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...
et al, 1999). It is not uncommon for people to treat their symptoms as a cold, overcome the initial attack and then appear to fal...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...
In fifteen pages the hemodialysis procedure is described and then the sociological and biological effects that the elderly can exp...
11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...