YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly and Substance Abuse
Essays 301 - 330
Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...
the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...
more personal, incorporating "personal health behavior change" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205) as well. 2. What...
why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...
In three pages this paper discusses dementia in elderly patients and how dementia can result in this consideration of etiology and...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
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...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...
they need. While everyone hurts with high prescription costs, senior citizens tend to rely more on prescription drugs for their ov...
need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...
staying alive. As global warming continues, it influences the sea level; as the waters continue to rise, they will ultimately "di...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
their families insist that there is a problem. The abusers rarely accept the fact that they have a problem. In light of this we fi...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...
the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...
different is that we always had penmanship classes, all the way through school. Theres so much difference now; schools dont seem ...
being things such as substances that are found in the material world (Honderich, 1995). Modes and relations are two other complex ...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...