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Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

APN Role in Protecting Elderly Abuse Victims

"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...

Neuman Systems Theory of Nursing

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

Accessibility for Elderly to Rural Healthcare

been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...

Intergenerational Family Relationships

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

USING PROBLEM ORIENTED POLICING TO REDUCE CRIMES AGAINST SENIORS

justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Lifespan Developmental Psychology; The Case of an Elderly Bereaved Patient

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...

Gilded Era/Welfare Reform & The Elderly And Privacy

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Nursing Home Industry and Patient Care Costs Determination

In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Taking Care of the Elderly

The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...

Senior Citizens with Osteoarthritis and Effects of Exercise

osteoarthritis (Alper, 1998). Nicholas DiNubile, an orthopedic consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ba...

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 ...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

The Family and Aging Reflected in The Price and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the impact of aging not only on the elderly member of the family but on the family i...

Abuse of the Elderly

In six pages elderly abuse is examined in terms of its types and various situations. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliograph...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY - BEYOND FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER

An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

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...

Senior Citizens, Hemodialysis, and End Stage Renal Failure

In fifteen pages the hemodialysis procedure is described and then the sociological and biological effects that the elderly can exp...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Senior Citizens and Rex L. Jones' Poker and the American Dream

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...

NJ's Morris County and Senior Citizen Services

In six pages this paper presents a service expansion proposal to more adequately meet the needs of the elderly residents of Morris...