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Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

A Biopsychosocial Perspective on the Elderly

increase from 5.6 percent of the GDP in 2000 to over 7.4 percent in 2040 (Investment Advisor, 2002). This reflects a considerabl...

Case Studies in the Analysis and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders With the Help of Rebecca Shannonhouse's 'Out of Her Mind,' Margery Kempe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was f...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Geriatrics and Ethics

factors being considered are those pertaining to the welfare of the patient, the surgeon then should make a viable case that amput...

Sexuality in the Elderly

the amount of semen is reduced, the testicles "do not rise as much as in the young man," ejaculation is not as powerful, and "the ...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

Active Development of Listening Skills

* "Listen to the whole message * "Listen for factual information * "Listen for feelings * "Give the speaker signs of interest and ...

3 Steps of Organized Thinking and Order

mess of driving rain and wind but today, we know there is order. When we find the reasons for things, we call them causes and what...

Mental Models of a Finance Officer in a Healthcare Setting

This 3 page paper looks at the type of mental models which may be used by a chief finance officer in a healthcare organization whe...

Creative Intelligence And Decision Making

styles. Creative Intelligence tells us "how our mind uses mental codes, over which we have no control, to determine how informatio...

Sports, Visualization, and Mental Imagery

In ten pages this research paper examines how in sports visualization, mental practice, and mental images are used. Seven sources...

Concepts of Mental Health

In five pages this paper discusses wellness and considers various concepts related to mental health and how good mental health can...

Mental Health Clients and Increasing Independence

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

Psychological Studies' Case Study on Mental Representation

timed in regards to their responses, Rosch reported that "response times are strikingly close to ratings of typicality" which mean...

Mental Health Treatment and Group Work Importance

2. The Problem In this section we will first consider the scope of the problem, its impact and the reason that this subject merit...

Debate on Mental Health Parity Legislation

is still very much on the burner as far as an issue we want to see addressed before we recess" (Landa, 2001; p. 8)....

Mental Health Hospitalization and Inpatient Services

Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...

America's Law Enforcement/Mental Health Project/Speaker notes

This paper presents the speaker notes to khmhclaw.ppt, which is a PowerPoint presentation on US Senate bill 1865, America's Law En...

Overview of Concurrent Mental Disorders

This paper defines and discusses concurrent mental disorders. The writer indicates what this classification of mental disorders r...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

Community Mental Health Movement, An Overview

to address such social welfare needs as housing and job training (Ritter and Lampkin 11). Social bias against the people sufferi...

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN AUTISM

Much like autism itself, there are a wide variety of communication skills among children with autism. Some are able to carry on st...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

Specific Language Impairment Article Review

language abilities develop. The languages themselves may be different, but the underlying acquisition processes appear to be the s...

Visual Impairment and Student's Needs

visual cortex, and is associated with a variety of different symptoms, depending on the underlying injury (Macintyre-Beon, et al, ...

An Overview of Existing Research on Stroke and Diabetes

In a three page paper, the author reflects on a range of studies on diabetes, stroke, and skin impairment in patients with comorbi...