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Observation of Older Adults, A Field Study

This essay discusses a student's observations of elderly adults and the student's interpretation of the observed behaviors, drawin...

A Case Study, Polypharmacy

This research paper presents a case study that illustrates how to properly address an instance of polypharmacy in an elderly patie...

The Elderly and Mental Health

This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...

Review of Achievements in the Development and Implementation of Nursing Program to Reduce Falls

The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...

The Elderly, Medications for Hypertension and Depression

This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...

Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

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 Elderly and Driving Behavior

A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...

Risks in the Home that Impact on Fall Rates

The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...

How Osteoporosis Affects the Elderly

This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...

The Elderly and Alcoholism Diagnostic Instruments

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at alcoholism diagnostic instruments. An effort is made to find a suitable instrument ...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

Nursing Research on Fall Prevention

viewed demonstrated variables in relation to the methods for disseminating information and best-practice approaches to reducing fa...

Falls and the Retired Population - An Annotated Bibliography

The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...

Social Support Services for the Elderly

the support services that are available vary widely according to location (Seggewiss, 2009, p. E90) The rapidly increasing number...

Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

Events Shape Our Lives

the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...

The Elderly and Psychiatric Polypharmacy

This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

Suicide Among Older Adults

This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Health Care Insurance For The Middle Class Of Illinois: Finding A Solution

insurance as a working benefit, but that is not always a workable solution when employees cannot afford to miss a day a work in or...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...