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This research paper presents a case study that illustrates how to properly address an instance of polypharmacy in an elderly patie...
with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...
A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
In a paper of forty pages, the author reflects on the current literature to propose a specific approach to studying and changing t...
is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...
self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...
As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...
This study uses several research studies about social workers as its core. The focus is on social workers and the elderly. Technol...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
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...
Eastern Europe and Russia assisting entrepreneurs and city economic departments make the transition to a market economy. ...
This research paper addresses pertinent literature on the topic of elderly learning. The author contends that further education a...
This research paper pertains to a project that addresses polypharmacy prescribing within the clinical environment of a rural psych...
In a paper of five pages, the author reviews strategies to improve health outcomes by reducing barriers to health promotoin progra...
the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...
2006, pp. 669-683). Based on this, the researchers found that hip fractures were greatly reduced in the women taking the supplemen...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the problems connected with adult children caring for their elderly parents by disc...
In eight pages the relationship between the housing arrangements of elderly women, their fear regarding crime and why they might b...
the elderly patient. Significance Careful consideration...
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...
way the Social Security Administration does and proclaim that anyone age sixty-two or over will be considered "elderly". It seems...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...
In this paper consisting of eighteen pages a research proposal that investigates activity whether it be physical or social as it r...