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Florida and Abuse of the Elderly

In five pages the increase of senior citizen neglect and abuse in Florida is examined. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Hospital Chaplains and Elderly Illnesses

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

Nursing and Elderly Pain Management Strategy

In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...

Assisting Bedridden Elderly Patients: An Ergonomic Concern

This paper is on a primary care provider's concerns regarding the risk to a client's health and safety due to having to lift heavy...

Abuse and the Elderly

In eight pages the global aging population issue is discussed with elder abuse laws, increasing incidences of abuse and neglect, a...

Religion and Life Considered in an Elderly Citizen Interview

In six pages life's 8 stages as theorized by Erik Erikson are applied to a sample interview with a woman age 72 who discusses reli...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Elderly Women and Drug Misuse

This is a two-topic paper. The first part reviews a journal article about older women using or misusing substances, mostly legal d...

Polypharmacy in the Elderly

In a paper of forty pages, the author reflects on the current literature to propose a specific approach to studying and changing t...

Social Work Among the Elderly, An Overview

This paper presents an overview of urgent issues in social work that entail provision of services to older adults. Topics addresse...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Elderly: Depression And Suicide

With millions of Americans in all age groups suffering from clinical depression (Alexopoulos), it can no longer be looked upon as ...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

Substance Abuse in the Elderly Population

as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...

Depression In Elderly Women

aforementioned variables are unsatisfactory, depression can occur in a number of different ways. Major depressive disorder ...

The Elderly and the Natural Life Span

This paper reviews how individual outlook combines with societal norms to determine whether aging will be a positive or negative p...

A Film About the Elderly

This essay is based on a movie about old age and family dynamics. The essay uses scenes from the move to discuss: friendship, sand...

Phenomenology and Addressing Elderly Depression

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Interview with an elderly man

Interview techniques are touched on in this paper that focuses on a mock interview. There are three sources listed in the bibliogr...

Analysis of New York City's FY2007 Budget

decline in 2008 from 2007 levels, as example - which the departments management can review for performance after the fact. Horngr...

Taking Video Games to China

two or three weeks, so that they will get hooked" (Srinivasan, 2005). Indian programmers are indeed being "hooked" and the compan...

Implementing Customer-Focused Strategies

Further, the marketing mix approach is far less effective in the electronic environment than it is in the local supermarket or Sup...

Being an Advocate for an Injured Client

actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...