YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Qualities of a Citizen by Gardner
Essays 211 - 240
public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...
did play a role in the demise of the innocent bystanders who got in his way during that deadly summer day. Whether age is a fac...
and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...
to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...
warrants. The hardship that media bias has caused the elderly population is immense and far-reaching, severely impacting everythi...
forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...
Yet, birth and death are part of life and in some way they are each nearer to the darkness--the before and after life--that people...
involved, the elderly can be put aside. Whether living at home or in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the lives of the elderly w...
Roland, 1996). Langjolois, et al (1998) showed that weight loss was a factor in hip fracture in older men and found that lower men...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...
The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the rate of violent crime victimization of persons ages 65 or older was about...
a woman from his past perhaps. But, those familiar with the film know better. This opening scene is also one, instilled by the w...
the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...
The vastly different reports of the incidence of urinary incontinence among the older population is the result of the different wa...
human life. Without its influential element, myriad individuals would not be able to properly function within their world. The p...
Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...
law that requires that three time offenders are automatically sentenced to life after their third crime, is one of these addresses...
the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...
to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...
view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...
cerebellum are affected, then hemi/quadriparesis, hemisensory loss and ataxia, and abnormal eye movements will be noted, along wit...
Week, 2005). The etiology of the condition revolves around the inflammation and swelling of the synovial membrane as it is invade...
well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...
contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
that you cannot choose your land of birth, but you can possess the choice of which nation you love and this should stand as someth...
wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...
prove to be so embarrassing to elderly clients that they alter their lifestyles to avoid social situations and, thereby, become so...