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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...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

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 ...

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...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Senior Citizens and Long Term Care

Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...

Elderly and Cultural Behavior

bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...

Overview of the Foster Grandparents Program

the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...

Adult Development and Aging

an adolescent and grown adult. His elementary and middle school years were full of academic lessons, caring for his siblings and ...

Analysis of Bio Psycho Social Case Study

from observation and that which was offered by Mrs. R, it is likely there would be quite a few discrepancies that warrant removing...

Aggregate and Community Defined

geographic community. Aggregate An aggregate is any subgroup of a defined community. The subgroup can be defined by any cr...

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...

Normal Process of Aging and Depression

able to evolve in a manner that is in correspondence with their desires (Atchley, 2002). At the same time, this learning takes pl...

Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

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

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...

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...