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Income Level, Depression & the Elderly

Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...

Analysis: Two Articles on Aging

conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...

Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Interview with an Elderly Individual

ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Gibbs Cycle Analysis of Constipation in the Elderly

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

The Impact Of Culture On The Experience Of Aging

of the elderly - especially when culturally and institutionally coerced - is not necessarily accompanied by affection...In the pas...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Depression in Elderly Women

This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...

Proposal for Therapeutic Touch Study

treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...

Aging Parents and the Responsibilities of Their Children

This paper places the responsibility for caring for the elderly parents on the shoulders of their adult children. There are four ...

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...

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...

Financial Crimes against the Elderly

abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...

Global Warming

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

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

Older Adult Emergency Department Care

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

Developmentally Disables Senior Citizens and Need for Services in New York State

2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...

Canadian Dental Hygiene, Aging, and the Media

When people think of the elderly, or the aging, and dental hygiene they more often than not think about dental health in general. ...

The Influence of Environmental Factors on Falls

This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...

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...

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...

Assessing a Fall Prevention Implementation Plan

attitudes and motivation. However, in a criticism of the educational program, it has become apparent that certain aspects of these...

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...

Failures in Fall Prevention Practices

The writer looks at the best practice strategies to reduce fall rates in elderly community based patients. The research based bet ...

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...