YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Older Adults and Depression
Essays 211 - 240
This paper considers how nurses can become an agent of change in regard to ageism, the myths surrounding it, and the care of older...
This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...
This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...
Dementia is becoming more prevalent because more people are living into older ages. As we age, we have a greater risk of getting o...
This 6 page paper gives an overview of the problems with securing retirement for older Americans. This paper includes issues such ...
This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...
There is not enough affordable housing for independently living senior or for seniors who need some assistance. The federal recomm...
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...
is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...
Unfortunately, discrimination and...
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...
worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...
is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...
In 5 pages this research study on senior citizens and landmark objects as assisting in memory is the focus of this critique and an...
state of self-pity for a life quickly passing her by, but instead has opened an entirely new chapter to her already fruitful life....
comprehensive than with conventional methods, inasmuch as it addresses myriad components of physical and psychological wellbeing t...
psychotherapy declined. Psychotherapy is often an expensive and prolonged process, which is why Olfson, et al, posit that increase...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...
the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...
finally, the first phase of the think-no-think task. Only those scoring at least 50 percent on this final test were included. Mat...
feelings of relative well-being" ("Causes of Mood Disorders" 1). While the causes of depression are still not known with certainty...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...
ten years and in raising her son has also incurred several debts which have created stress, these are an issue. Joan needs to work...
understood for - and treated as - the incapacitating disease it is. Chemical imbalance in the brain has long been thought t...
and those who have been diagnosed as having a major depressive episode (Editors, 2006). As the data verify, girls are far more lik...
treatment in most cases according to the practice parameters of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This is t...
drug abuse is a problem since intoxication can be a facilitating factor in impulsive suicide attempts (Assessment of patients, 200...
low energy; 7. feelings of worthlessness; 8. poor concentration, and 9. recurrent suicidal ideation or suicide attempt (Lapid and ...