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Security for Retirement in America

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the problems with securing retirement for older Americans. This paper includes issues such ...

Addressing Ageism in Nursing

This paper considers how nurses can become an agent of change in regard to ageism, the myths surrounding it, and the care of older...

Home Visit, Sallie Mae

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Different Versions for the Biblical Flood

This report identifies and discusses different sources for Noah and the Flood. There were four much older stories of such a flood ...

Telling Older Relatives That They Can No Longer Drive

This essay is on the task of informing older relatives that it is unsafe for them to drive any longer. This is an emotionally tra...

Application Essay for College - Role Model

most of all for being willing to help me overcome my own weaknesses and being willing to defend me as I fought my own battles. F...

Articles for Assessing Hazards increase Fall Risk for Elederly Community Based Patients

The paper is written as an annotated bibliography looking at research on environmental factors which may impact on fall rates for...

Effects of Mental Illness

(Smith, 2006). They need to realize they will become tired and frustrated. What family and friends can do to help the patient is...

Politics in Organizations

it can be used as a source of power. If a manager calls someone and does not leave a message on the other persons voice mail syste...

Neuman Systems Theory of Nursing

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

The Use of Rhetoric in Stereotyping Groups

image to all persons" must be interpreted to mean that "all persons" means "everyone in the world." Since its not possible to cont...

Argumentative for Combining Methodologies: Leaders v. Managers

solid transformational leadership model in their leadership challenge. Their five point concept of modeling the way, inspiring a s...

AGING, STEROTYPES AND SEXUALITY

(When Alzheimers Patients Fall in Love, 2007). In a USA Today article that further explored the John OConnor love affair,...

Shunning In Mennonite Culture

moral rules leads to being shunned, not the least of which includes using modern technology like computers and automobiles, r wear...

Older and Homeless in the U.S.

worst for the population aged 50 and above. People of middle age and older are likely to be experiencing the physical problems tha...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Diabetes: Alternative Health Care

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...

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...

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...

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....

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Gestational Diabetes

(Perkins, Dunn and Jagasia, 2007). Research has shown that the "magnitude of fetal-neonatal risk" is directly proportional to the ...

Diabetes/Reducing the Risk

increasing exercise. A decrease of just 7 to 10 percent from the baseline weight can have a beneficial effect on glucose tolerance...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...