YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices
Essays 421 - 450
context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...
There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...
option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...
which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...
that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...
care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...
When people think of the elderly, or the aging, and dental hygiene they more often than not think about dental health in general. ...
this, in that she learned to be quiet and respectful in church, as well. Louise gained a well-balanced education of what it means...
factors being considered are those pertaining to the welfare of the patient, the surgeon then should make a viable case that amput...
dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...
Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...
the amount of semen is reduced, the testicles "do not rise as much as in the young man," ejaculation is not as powerful, and "the ...
(CVA) (Heart Center Online, n.d.) but it is also called a brain attack (Cornforth , 2002). A stroke happens when oxygen and other ...
("Developmental," 2005). Sometimes there is a sensitivity to medications, dementia, communication problems, deformities and cereb...
individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...
2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...
medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
staying alive. As global warming continues, it influences the sea level; as the waters continue to rise, they will ultimately "di...
her mater grandmother remained a homemaker. This traditional family format was also reflected in her paternal grandparents in whic...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...