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Essays 391 - 420
her mater grandmother remained a homemaker. This traditional family format was also reflected in her paternal grandparents in whic...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
placed in foster homes, which they were told would happen if just one more report was filed with protective services. The oldest ...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...
pets do make a difference has spawned a variety of organizations eager to further research and create service programs involving a...
et al, 1999). It is not uncommon for people to treat their symptoms as a cold, overcome the initial attack and then appear to fal...
carpet in two rooms; wet walls; wet ceilings. The long-term results for some residents have included buckled walls and buckled, cr...
"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...
50% of those who commit sex abuse crimes also abuse alcohol. Suicides: 1. 80% of all adolescent suicides have been reported to b...
In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...
question was directed at the nurse. One of her companions noted that her daughters name is Nancy, but Nancy died three years previ...
need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...
they need. While everyone hurts with high prescription costs, senior citizens tend to rely more on prescription drugs for their ov...
more personal, incorporating "personal health behavior change" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205) as well. 2. What...
In three pages this paper discusses dementia in elderly patients and how dementia can result in this consideration of etiology and...
of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...