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rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...
the family owned a car, the elderly womans family had the opportunity to visit family or friends or even take a Sunday drive. Th...
with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...
then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...
the support services that are available vary widely according to location (Seggewiss, 2009, p. E90) The rapidly increasing number...
A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...
The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...
The writer looks at the way in which a nursing program may be evaluated to provide instant results. The tool advocated is a self c...
The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...
This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...
Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...
The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...
This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...
This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
the largest of all of the programs funded through the Older Americans Act and that in 2010, the program funded approximately $819....
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...
is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...
This longitudinal study examined gender differences in depression between a cohort of 754 men and women over age 70, beginning in ...
of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...
ask, "What are your memories of your childhood without electricity, phones and plumbing (knowing the individual lived very rurally...