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Income Level, Depression & the Elderly

Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Lifespan Developmental Psychology; The Case of an Elderly Bereaved Patient

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...

Accessibility for Elderly to Rural Healthcare

been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...

Elderly Divorce

life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Proposal for Therapeutic Touch Study

treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Pain Management Literature Review

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY - BEYOND FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER

An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...

Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Community Nursing Problem/Yeadon, PA

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Senior Citizens, Hemodialysis, and End Stage Renal Failure

In fifteen pages the hemodialysis procedure is described and then the sociological and biological effects that the elderly can exp...

Senior Citizens and Rex L. Jones' Poker and the American Dream

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...

How Various Cultures View the Aging Process

In eight pages the ways in which Japanese, Hispanic, and American cultures regard aging are explored and include such relevant top...

American and Hazda Elderly Women

In seven pages American and Hazda elderly women are contrasted and compared regarding social position, community involvement, and ...

Nationwide Prescription Drug Plan Approaches

In a paper consisting of nine pages a nationwide plan for prescription drugs is examined in terms of economic feasibility and the ...

Blame and King Lear

In five pages William Shakespeare's elderly protagonist is examined in a discussion of whether or not he can be blamed for the tra...

NJ's Morris County and Senior Citizen Services

In six pages this paper presents a service expansion proposal to more adequately meet the needs of the elderly residents of Morris...

Society and How It is Measured

In six pages this paper analyzes society within the context of Mahatma Gandhi's contention, 'The measure of a society is how it tr...

Elderly Abuse in Nursing Homes and Detection

In five pages detecting and preventing elderly abuse in nursing homes are considered in a top down healthcare model examination. ...

Senior Citizens and Healthy Lifestyles

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens and their extensive use of health services in a thesis that argues healthier lif...

Treatment as a Result of Ageism

In a paper consisting of eighteen pages the ways in which elderly people are treated medically, in society, by the government, and...

The Obvious Choice of Al Gore for President in 2000

In five pages this paper supports Al Gore's presidential candidacy over Republican opponent George W. Bush by contrasting politica...

A Research Proposal Regarding Elderly Activity

In this paper consisting of eighteen pages a research proposal that investigates activity whether it be physical or social as it r...