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Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

FRAT and its Uses

higher, at 60% (Dowswell, 1999). It is not only the incidence that increases, but also the rate of resulting hospitalisation, and ...

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...

Lesson Plan : Seniors And Smoking

[There will be a variety of responses, like taking medication, calling and e-mailing loved ones, etc.] Short discussion about the ...

Ethical Issue Of Confidentiality In School Counseling

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

Senior Citizens with Heart Problems and the Transitional Care Nursing Model

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

Depression and Senior Citizen Patients

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Needs

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages senior citizens' care is examined in this Canadian geriatric case study of various global health issues and local ...

Article 'Power to the Patient' by Mattie Tolley, RN, MS

This paper consists of five pages and discusses long term health care facilities and senior citizens' loss of autonomy. One sourc...

Senior Citizens and Resistance Training

In nine pages this literature review focuses upon senior citizens' resistance training and its benefits. Ten sources are cited in...

Span Systems and Citizen-Schwartz Case

the aggressive approach, but they are in breach of the communication and reporting terms, as such it may be argued that it would b...

Senior Citizen's Psychological Assessment

In twelve pages this paper examines socialization and self perception, patterns of learned behavior, informal systems of support, ...

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...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

Marketing Plan for Utilizing the Adult Nurse Practitioner at an HIV/AIDS Clinic

they do and so are less valuable in health care (Cys, 2004). NPs are and have been nurses first, and a requirement for the Master...

Medicare and Medicaid Costs and the Impacts of Senior Citizen Care, AIDS, and Teen Pregnancy

In sixteen pages this paper discusses how Medicare and Medicaid costs are impacted by senior citizen health care, AIDS treatment a...

Senior Citizens and Mental Illness

In ten pages this paper examines the problem of mental illness among senior citizens in a consideration of background, causes, dia...

Elderly Patients and Pain

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens, pain, and their inability oftentimes to verbally express the pain they are feel...

Costs and Responsibility for Senior Citizen Programs

In seven pages this paper discusses why the responsibility for funding and supporting senior citizen programs should be shared by ...

Senior Citizen Care and Economics

In six pages this paper examines America's senior citizens in terms of the costs of health care and insurance and the impact upon ...

Mortality's Realization and its Human Impact

out doctor-assisted suicide. "We rarely go gentle into that good night" (Nuland, 1995, p. PG), because the body typically goes th...

Senior Citizens of Puerto Rico

In seven pages this paper examines social and cultural differentiations as they apply to Puerto Rican senior citizens. Ten source...

'Baby Boomers' and Retirement Preparation

In five pages this paper examines the proposed 2025 senior citizen crisis that will take place regarding 'baby boomers' and retire...