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Physician's Role and Dementia

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

Senile Dementia Causes and Symptoms

In six pages this research paper examines senile dementia, including Alzheimer's, in a consideration of causes and a discussion of...

The Brain, Loss of Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease

In this research paper consisting of nine pages the possible causes of progressive senile dementia or Alzheimer's symptoms are dis...

Review of an Article on the Epidemiologic Issue of Dementia

In four pages the article appearing in Lancet involving the epidemiologic issue dementia may pose for the elderly is reviewed and ...

Memory Loss and Alzheimer's Disease

In a paper consisting of six pages dementia and Alzheimer's are considered within the various types of memory loss associated with...

Elderly and Dementia

In five pages the occurrence of dementia in the elderly is examined along with a discussion of the caregiver's role in this progre...

Mental Health and Dementia

there is a legal definition laid down by the Mental Health Act 1983 which states that a mental disorder is ""means mental illness,...

Living with Multiple Health Needs; Care Assessment

over between the social and the medical areas, the care plan needs to look at each and determine the way in which these will be de...

Review of a Research Article Investigating a Strategy to Improve the Sleep for Carers of Patients with Dementia

able to justify the need for research in this area and provide a rich background. The literature review takes research from a rang...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Dementia Alzheimer's Delirium

This essay discusses several issues related to cognition in old age. This includes diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia, life...

Effective Treatment to Reduce the Progress of Dementia

The writer presents a literature review on the identification and assessment of articles on the treatment of dementia. Following ...

Dementia

of symptoms caused by disorders that affect the brain. It is not a specific disease" (MedlinePlus). When a person has dem...

Nurses & Health Care Policy

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Influence Of Therapeutic Setting In Psychoanalysis

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

Mishel's Uncertainty In Illness Theory

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Literature Review on Operating Room Patients' Identification

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Ethical Conflict Regarding Nurse's Code and a Patient's 'Right to Die'

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

Patient's 'Right to Die' and the Legality of Nursing Responsibility

through the administration of pain medication. It is not to end that suffering through medically-induced suicide. In fact, the C...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...