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then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...
the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
viewed demonstrated variables in relation to the methods for disseminating information and best-practice approaches to reducing fa...
rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...
This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...
higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...
This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at alcoholism diagnostic instruments. An effort is made to find a suitable instrument ...
This essay discusses a student's observations of elderly adults and the student's interpretation of the observed behaviors, drawin...
This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
the observation of one or two members of that group. For instance, one young African-American mother cheats to get welfare, and su...
worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...
advances in research or clinical practice, the interview method has been one of the most fruitful, producing the majority of the b...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
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...
et al, 1999). It is not uncommon for people to treat their symptoms as a cold, overcome the initial attack and then appear to fal...
There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...