YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly and the Natural Life Span
Essays 271 - 300
In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...
In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...
In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...
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...
osteoarthritis (Alper, 1998). Nicholas DiNubile, an orthopedic consultant to the Philadelphia 76ers and the Pennsylvania Ba...
emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...
In six pages this opinion paper features research regarding how views of society, depression, and health issues contribute to the ...
The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...
In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...
warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...
by a factor of 11! Consequently, the elderly, who comprised only 1 in every 25 Americans (3.1 million) in 1900, made up 1 in 8 (33...
from observation and that which was offered by Mrs. R, it is likely there would be quite a few discrepancies that warrant removing...
Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...
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...
the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
Exercise program No exercise program As this chart illustrates the 2x2 factorial design dictated that the sample group should be ...
the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...
geographic community. Aggregate An aggregate is any subgroup of a defined community. The subgroup can be defined by any cr...
bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...
has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...
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...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
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...
justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...
"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...
prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...