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This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...
This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....
This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...
endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...
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...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...
prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...
In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...
worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...