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An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

Events Shape Our Lives

the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...

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...

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...

Article Critique/Effects of Remembering/Nursing Home Residents

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

Client Profile

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

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...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

House Bill 250: Analysis

context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Global Warming

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

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....

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...

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...

Lifespan Developmental Psychology; The Case of an Elderly Bereaved Patient

from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Gilded Era/Welfare Reform & The Elderly And Privacy

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...

Hypothetical Framework for a Single Client Study

depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...

Depression And Massage Complementary Therapy

is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...