YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Elderly and their Needs
Essays 181 - 210
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
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...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
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...
emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...
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 ...
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...
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 four pages the article appearing in Lancet involving the epidemiologic issue dementia may pose for the elderly is reviewed and ...
in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...
In six pages elderly abuse is examined in terms of its types and various situations. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliograph...
In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...
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 the occurrence of dementia in the elderly is examined along with a discussion of the caregiver's role in this progre...
In twelve pages this report is based on a transcript of a restaurant conversation between an elderly mother and her two middle age...
In five pages this paper examines McDonald's liability in a case involving elderly customer Stella Liebeck who received 3rd degree...
reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...
In a paper consisting of eighteen pages the ways in which elderly people are treated medically, in society, by the government, and...
In five pages this paper supports Al Gore's presidential candidacy over Republican opponent George W. Bush by contrasting politica...
In five pages this paper examines senior citizens and their extensive use of health services in a thesis that argues healthier lif...