YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly Population and Substance Abuse
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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...
that revenues are recognized at the time goods are sold and/or services are rendered. Materiality, or the materiality prin...
geographic community. Aggregate An aggregate is any subgroup of a defined community. The subgroup can be defined by any cr...
an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...
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...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
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...
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 ...
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...
has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...
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...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...