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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...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...
the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...
(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
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...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
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...
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...
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 ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...
on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...
medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...
She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...
can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...