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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...

Suicide Among Older Adults

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

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

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

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

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 ...

Reflective Practice And Research In Social Work

trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

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...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Senior Citizens in Miami, Florida

to the area (via migration or birth) than those that are dying. The bulk of the increase in Florida is due to people migrating dur...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

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...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Eldercare: A View of Nutrition Support

the largest of all of the programs funded through the Older Americans Act and that in 2010, the program funded approximately $819....

A Look at Two Frivolous Legal Cases in the Media

but the true facts reveal McDonalds true colors and why this elderly woman received such a large award. The facts of the case are ...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Depression and Senior Citizen Patients

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Elderly and Developmental Disabilities

("Developmental," 2005). Sometimes there is a sensitivity to medications, dementia, communication problems, deformities and cereb...

Themes of the Film Cocoon

Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...

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...

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...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

Overview of the Foster Grandparents Program

the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...