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Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...

Case Study: Interview With An Older Person

state of self-pity for a life quickly passing her by, but instead has opened an entirely new chapter to her already fruitful life....

Frequent Nocturnal Urination, Older Male Patient

This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...

Higher Education Trend of Attracting the Older Student

30 years of age and 70 percent of all part-time students are 25 or older (Ludden, 1996, p. 2). The number of part-time students ha...

Housing Availability for Older People

There is not enough affordable housing for independently living senior or for seniors who need some assistance. The federal recomm...

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...

Motorcycle Riders are Older

action in their lives. There are now more people over the age of 65 than ever before and they are becoming engaged in activities t...

Older Population and Landmark Objects Study

In 5 pages this research study on senior citizens and landmark objects as assisting in memory is the focus of this critique and an...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Health Care Insurance For The Middle Class Of Illinois: Finding A Solution

insurance as a working benefit, but that is not always a workable solution when employees cannot afford to miss a day a work in or...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Updated Gannt Chart Stop Smoking

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...

Program to Reduce Number of Medications Taken

As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...

People Who Call Hotlines Frequently

There are many different kinds of hotline crisis centers. Every one of them probably deals with repeat callers, some of whom reall...

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

Electronic Child Health Network - An Analysis

of those "right-time, right-place" solutions for the Hospital for Sick Children, which was spearheading the initiative, the other ...

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Impact of the Health Care Delivery System on the Availability of Health Education Services in the United States...

Health Benefits of Breastfeeding

asthma, cancer, diabetes, and childhood obesity" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). Improved eyesight and children having higher intelligence ...

Public Health Management

change will soon be out of business whether it is a public or private organization. It is also true regardless of industry. As Tho...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

Overview of Public Health Services

through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Regulating Health Care Professionals in Rhode Island

"minimum standards for licensing, vehicles, equipment for vehicles, personnel, training, communications and the treatment of acute...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

The Importance of a Public Option in Health Care Reform? ?

overall. We should insure that everyone in our society not only has access to but the ability to pay for adequate healthcare. U...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Establish Ethical Culture in Public Health

2007). It is much better and will have more impact if this training and communication happens in a face-to-face situation and not...