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p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
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...
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...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
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, ...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...
on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...
conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...
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...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
In twelve pages this research paper discusses the impact of aging not only on the elderly member of the family but on the family i...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
In four pages the article appearing in Lancet involving the epidemiologic issue dementia may pose for the elderly is reviewed and ...
osteoarthritis (Alper, 1998). Nicholas DiNubile, an orthopedic consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ba...
In six pages this opinion paper features research regarding how views of society, depression, and health issues contribute to the ...
emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...
In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...
In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...
In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...
In six pages elderly abuse is examined in terms of its types and various situations. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliograph...
In twelve pages this report is based on a transcript of a restaurant conversation between an elderly mother and her two middle age...
In a paper consisting of 7 pages a short story about a teenage girl who seeks to feel her own heart is presented and the film she ...
In six pages elderly programs are examined in a consideration of how important leisure services activities are. Five sources are ...