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attitudes and motivation. However, in a criticism of the educational program, it has become apparent that certain aspects of these...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...
The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...
This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
This paper places the responsibility for caring for the elderly parents on the shoulders of their adult children. There are four ...
This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at alcoholism diagnostic instruments. An effort is made to find a suitable instrument ...
This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
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...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their 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...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
the support services that are available vary widely according to location (Seggewiss, 2009, p. E90) The rapidly increasing number...
the largest of all of the programs funded through the Older Americans Act and that in 2010, the program funded approximately $819....