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This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....
This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...
This paper presents an overview of urgent issues in social work that entail provision of services to older adults. Topics addresse...
This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
In a paper of forty pages, the author reflects on the current literature to propose a specific approach to studying and changing t...
This research paper provides an overview of the various needs that society should address in order to order to provide comprehensi...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
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 ...
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...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
pets do make a difference has spawned a variety of organizations eager to further research and create service programs involving a...
carpet in two rooms; wet walls; wet ceilings. The long-term results for some residents have included buckled walls and buckled, cr...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...
"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
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...
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...
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...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...