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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...

Developmentally Disables Senior Citizens and Need for Services in New York State

2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...

Using Drugs and Juvenile Delinquency

use is a prevalent factor in the school setting is intrinsically related to social elements, a point the authors illustrate by exa...

Educating the Elderly About Strokes

(CVA) (Heart Center Online, n.d.) but it is also called a brain attack (Cornforth , 2002). A stroke happens when oxygen and other ...

Nursing Assessment and Elderly Woman Interview

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Facts about Garlic

to consuming" (Garlic Fest, 2004). "Garlic, whose pharmacopeial name is Allii sativi bulbus (11), has a long history of medicina...

Substance and Symbolism of the African Mask

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

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...

COPD Patient Mechanical Ventilation Case Study

and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

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...

Five Stereotypes Associated With Aging and Senior Citizens

warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...

Fundamental Concepts Within Financial Accounting

that revenues are recognized at the time goods are sold and/or services are rendered. Materiality, or the materiality prin...

Aggregate and Community Defined

geographic community. Aggregate An aggregate is any subgroup of a defined community. The subgroup can be defined by any cr...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Implications of New Dual Diagnosis Terminology

there are others as well (Glossary of Terms, 2004). For example, MICAA is an acronym for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers a...

Psychological or Physical Origins of Substance Dependence

However, while a considerable amount of research points to the fact that depression or anxiety problems tend to cause alcoholism, ...

The Elderly Value and the Topic of Ageism

by a factor of 11! Consequently, the elderly, who comprised only 1 in every 25 Americans (3.1 million) in 1900, made up 1 in 8 (33...

Normal Process of Aging and Depression

able to evolve in a manner that is in correspondence with their desires (Atchley, 2002). At the same time, this learning takes pl...

Factorial Study and Defintions of 2x2

Exercise program No exercise program As this chart illustrates the 2x2 factorial design dictated that the sample group should be ...

Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

Analysis of Bio Psycho Social Case Study

from observation and that which was offered by Mrs. R, it is likely there would be quite a few discrepancies that warrant removing...

UK and Occupational Asthma

(Haz-Map, 2003). There are two general categories that cause occupational asthma: 1. Low-molecular weight compounds, which are c...