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Depression And Massage Complementary Therapy

is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...

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...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Social Support Services for the Elderly

the support services that are available vary widely according to location (Seggewiss, 2009, p. E90) The rapidly increasing number...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

Conversation a Mother and Her Two Daughters

In twelve pages this report is based on a transcript of a restaurant conversation between an elderly mother and her two middle age...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

Nursing Research on Fall Prevention

viewed demonstrated variables in relation to the methods for disseminating information and best-practice approaches to reducing fa...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

A Short Story 'Razor in Her Gut'

In a paper consisting of 7 pages a short story about a teenage girl who seeks to feel her own heart is presented and the film she ...

Leisure Activities in Programs for the Elderly

In six pages elderly programs are examined in a consideration of how important leisure services activities are. Five sources are ...

Research and Intervention for the Elderly

As our world continues to evolve we are faced with a greater and greater percentage of...

Eldercare: A View of Nutrition Support

the largest of all of the programs funded through the Older Americans Act and that in 2010, the program funded approximately $819....

Toni Morrison and Edward P. Jones

white. The reader is offered clues, but then are clues that could be perceived from either direction. For example, in the beginn...

Senior Citizens in Miami, Florida

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...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

The Impact of Age on the Reliability of the Psychiatric Interview

advances in research or clinical practice, the interview method has been one of the most fruitful, producing the majority of the b...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

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,...

Older and Homeless in the U.S.

worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...

Stereotypes of the Elderly, Tattooed Persons, Feminists and Politicians

the observation of one or two members of that group. For instance, one young African-American mother cheats to get welfare, and su...

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...

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....

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 ...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

The Elderly and Anemia

elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...

Elderly Living Alone and the Dangers This Poses

they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...

Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

Proposal Regarding Nursing Homes and Elder Incontinence

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

The Elderly Value and the Topic of Ageism

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...