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million metric tones (Wagner, 1996). Overall, the use of asbestos may be found in more than 3,000 products that are made commerci...
which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...
care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...
When people think of the elderly, or the aging, and dental hygiene they more often than not think about dental health in general. ...
this, in that she learned to be quiet and respectful in church, as well. Louise gained a well-balanced education of what it means...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
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...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...
though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars. Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily prom...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...