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FRAT and its Uses

higher, at 60% (Dowswell, 1999). It is not only the incidence that increases, but also the rate of resulting hospitalisation, and ...

Story About a Senior Citizen Couple and Their Gradual Memory Loss

I left it on the hall table for you. It had a map from Christine. Where is it? Ill check." "No. I thought you had it. There was n...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

HIV and the Senior Citizen Population

In all honesty it seems to be a problem with the poor as well as the middle class, white and black, male and female, straight and ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Case Study on Making Ethical Decisions

hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Andrew, but it can be assured that there is...

Understanding How Crime is Experienced by Senior Citizens Research Proposal

The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the rate of violent crime victimization of persons ages 65 or older was about...

Nursing Homes and Abuse of the Elderly

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

Medicare and Medicaid Costs and the Impacts of Senior Citizen Care, AIDS, and Teen Pregnancy

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how Medicare and Medicaid costs are impacted by senior citizen health care, AIDS treatment a...

Senior Citizens and Healthy Lifestyles

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens and their extensive use of health services in a thesis that argues healthier lif...

Institutional Neglect and Abuse of Senior Citizens

A paper containing twenty six pages discusses how senior citizens can be neglected and abused in institutional settings and examin...

ANA as a Political Action Committee

a compulsory health insurance program for its elderly citizens (225). There are indications then that American circumstances, as ...

Respect and Senior Citizens

In six pages this paper discusses ageism and various issues that include media and social depiction of senior citizens. Seven sou...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Senior Citizens and Mental Illness

In ten pages this paper examines the problem of mental illness among senior citizens in a consideration of background, causes, dia...

Costs and Responsibility for Senior Citizen Programs

In seven pages this paper discusses why the responsibility for funding and supporting senior citizen programs should be shared by ...

Senior Citizen Care and Economics

In six pages this paper examines America's senior citizens in terms of the costs of health care and insurance and the impact upon ...

Elderly Patients and Pain

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens, pain, and their inability oftentimes to verbally express the pain they are feel...

Mortality's Realization and its Human Impact

out doctor-assisted suicide. "We rarely go gentle into that good night" (Nuland, 1995, p. PG), because the body typically goes th...

Senior Citizens of Puerto Rico

In seven pages this paper examines social and cultural differentiations as they apply to Puerto Rican senior citizens. Ten source...

'Baby Boomers' and Retirement Preparation

In five pages this paper examines the proposed 2025 senior citizen crisis that will take place regarding 'baby boomers' and retire...

Senior Citizens and Euthanasia

In twelve pages senior citizens are the focus of this examination of euthanasia with ethics and psychology considered along with t...

Personalized Exercise Program for Senior Citizens Suffering from Arthritis

calling just seven years ago. Concentration is a strict element of this ancient Oriental art form, as is maintaining even breathi...

Senior Citizens and Group Home Setting Effectiveness

In twelve pages this paper assesses group home pros and cons for senior citizen living in terms of structure and the individual's ...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

Senior Citizens and Economics

In five pages economics and the concerns of contemporary senior citizens regarding such issues as Social Security are discussed. ...

Abuse of Senior Citizens

to the individual. Slapping, kicking, biting, pinching, and burning, inappropriate use of drugs, and, or, physical restraints; as...

Career Possibilities in Geriatric Health Care Administration

position that has often been filled by the physician, times are requiring that specialist be employed to conduct such performances...

Senior Citizens and Changes in the Senses

In nine pages this paper examines the changes in sensory perceptions as they relate to the senior citizen population. Ten sources...

Carobeth Laird's Limbo A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...