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of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...
potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...
need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...
of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
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...
is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....