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Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Pain Management and Nursing Involvement Increases

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

Assessment Of Research Into Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

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...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...

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...

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...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Senior Citizens, AARP, and Health Care

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

Older Adults Status Assessment

an assessment done on a younger and presumably more healthy person. For example, an older persons greater likelihood toward cardia...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Health Care and Communication

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Legislation

time will tell if these bills will eventually be passed into national law. The purpose of this paper is to introduce five...

Career Possibilities in Geriatric Health Care Administration

position that has often been filled by the physician, times are requiring that specialist be employed to conduct such performances...

Death and Dying Interview

In five pages a nursing services' director for a long term health care facility for senior citizens is interviewed regarding the p...

Senior Citizens and Healthcare Issues

In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...

Elderly Community Care, Housing and Health

In seven pages this paper examines senior citizen health care and housing in an emphasis upon social support and funding. Twelve ...

Issues in Health Care

to focus more upon running smooth production rather than customer needs. By skewing the focus in this way, health care organizati...

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 ...

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...

Institutional Neglect and Abuse of Senior Citizens

A paper containing twenty six pages discusses how senior citizens can be neglected and abused in institutional settings and examin...

ANA as a Political Action Committee

a compulsory health insurance program for its elderly citizens (225). There are indications then that American circumstances, as ...

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...

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...

Respiratory Care/Geriatric Case Study

on nursing care, particularly when considering the psychological factors of this model (Saliba, 2006). Breathing is one of the b...

Care of Senior Citizens and Issues of Dependency and Incontinence

prove to be so embarrassing to elderly clients that they alter their lifestyles to avoid social situations and, thereby, become so...

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...