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Senior Citizens and Influenza

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...

Questions on Aggregate Health and Community

more personal, incorporating "personal health behavior change" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205) as well. 2. What...

The Elderly and Anemia

elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Community Nursing: Positive Impacts on Nutrition and Lifestyle

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Nutrition and Health Science

claims with some skepticism. However, understanding the basics of nutrition and how it affects the mind and body is relevant for e...

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...

Senior Citizens and Isolation

In six pages this opinion paper features research regarding how views of society, depression, and health issues contribute to the ...

Modern Diet as the Cause of Degenerative Diseases

In twelve pages the Western or American diet and the problems it causes as related to degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis, ...

Nutrition and Infants

interested in eating. However, what comprises a healthy infant diet? According to experts, parents are regularly puzzled by what...

Senior Citizens and Healthy Lifestyles

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens and their extensive use of health services in a thesis that argues healthier lif...

Health Care Policies, the Elderly, and Political Action Committees

In six pages this paper examines how PACs attempt to influence elderly health care policies with strategic recommendations offered...

Learning, Nutrition, and Preschool Children

In five pages this paper examines preschool learning in a consideration of the significance of nutrition and the problems of socia...

Importance of Nutrition and Weight Status

This essay pertains to a Healthy People 2020 topic, nutrition and weight status and specifically discusses the problem of childhoo...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Obesity and Nutrition

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

E-Health: Policies And Procedures To Protect Consumer Confidentiality

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

Dependency and Physical Changes of the Elderly

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Elderly and Attachment to Home/Place in Rural Areas

trying to improve this situation. It seems important to spend some time on this aspect of the topic in light of the fact that it d...

Elderly Sexuality: Gender Differences

way the Social Security Administration does and proclaim that anyone age sixty-two or over will be considered "elderly". It seems...

Interviewing an Older Person

is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...

Fear, Residence, Elderly Women, and Crime

In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...