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Essays 511 - 540
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at alcoholism diagnostic instruments. An effort is made to find a suitable instrument ...
This research paper presents a case study that illustrates how to properly address an instance of polypharmacy in an elderly patie...
This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...
proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...
viewed demonstrated variables in relation to the methods for disseminating information and best-practice approaches to reducing fa...
This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...
This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...
higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...
This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
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 ...
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...
sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...
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...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...