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This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...
2002). Already, urban areas gain approximately one million additional residents each week (Meeting the urban challenge, 2002). ...
active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...
As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...
This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...
There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...
This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
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...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
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, ...
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...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
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...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...