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Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...
There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...
This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...
This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
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...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
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, ...
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...
which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...
option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...
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...
2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...