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the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...
Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
geographic community. Aggregate An aggregate is any subgroup of a defined community. The subgroup can be defined by any cr...
the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...
Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
increase from 5.6 percent of the GDP in 2000 to over 7.4 percent in 2040 (Investment Advisor, 2002). This reflects a considerabl...
the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...
("Developmental," 2005). Sometimes there is a sensitivity to medications, dementia, communication problems, deformities and cereb...
(CVA) (Heart Center Online, n.d.) but it is also called a brain attack (Cornforth , 2002). A stroke happens when oxygen and other ...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...
like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...
2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...
staying alive. As global warming continues, it influences the sea level; as the waters continue to rise, they will ultimately "di...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...
warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...
and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...
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...
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...