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This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...
higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
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...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
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....
worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...
the observation of one or two members of that group. For instance, one young African-American mother cheats to get welfare, and su...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...
then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...
rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...
viewed demonstrated variables in relation to the methods for disseminating information and best-practice approaches to reducing fa...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...
client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...