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of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...
potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...
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...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
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...
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...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
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...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...
paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...
advances in research or clinical practice, the interview method has been one of the most fruitful, producing the majority of the b...
nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...
to the area (via migration or birth) than those that are dying. The bulk of the increase in Florida is due to people migrating dur...
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,...