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Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Client Profile

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

Reflective Practice And Research In Social Work

trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

Clinical Considerations of a Tuberculosis Case Study

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

option. That option, however, is replete with many ethical considerations. As we shall see, those ethical considerations become ...

Geriatrics and Ethics

factors being considered are those pertaining to the welfare of the patient, the surgeon then should make a viable case that amput...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Sexuality in the Elderly

the amount of semen is reduced, the testicles "do not rise as much as in the young man," ejaculation is not as powerful, and "the ...

Canadian Dental Hygiene, Aging, and the Media

When people think of the elderly, or the aging, and dental hygiene they more often than not think about dental health in general. ...

Elderly Woman's Life Odyssey

this, in that she learned to be quiet and respectful in church, as well. Louise gained a well-balanced education of what it means...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Educating the Elderly About Strokes

(CVA) (Heart Center Online, n.d.) but it is also called a brain attack (Cornforth , 2002). A stroke happens when oxygen and other ...

Developmentally Disables Senior Citizens and Need for Services in New York State

2002). The state has taken active steps to provide services for the developmentally disabled population. In 1998, Governor George...

Elderly and Developmental Disabilities

("Developmental," 2005). Sometimes there is a sensitivity to medications, dementia, communication problems, deformities and cereb...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Conversation a Mother and Her Two Daughters

In twelve pages this report is based on a transcript of a restaurant conversation between an elderly mother and her two middle age...

A Short Story 'Razor in Her Gut'

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 ...

Leisure Activities in Programs for the Elderly

In six pages elderly programs are examined in a consideration of how important leisure services activities are. Five sources are ...

Individual, Society and the Social Adjustment of a 74 Year Old Mixed European and Cherokee Woman

In nine pages this paper presents an interview with an elderly woman of mixed Native American and European blood in a consideratio...

Elderly and Dementia

In five pages the occurrence of dementia in the elderly is examined along with a discussion of the caregiver's role in this progre...

Hot Coffee, the Stella Liebeck Case, and McDonald's

In five pages this paper examines McDonald's liability in a case involving elderly customer Stella Liebeck who received 3rd degree...

Nursing Home Industry and Patient Care Costs Determination

In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

Senior Citizens and Isolation

In six pages this opinion paper features research regarding how views of society, depression, and health issues contribute to the ...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Taking Care of the Elderly

The author considers the difficulties facing families who decide to care for elderly relatives with Alzheimer's. The author analyz...

Elderly Care in a Nursing Home v. At Home

In seven pages caring for the elderly is considered through two options with home health care oftentimes presenting more advantage...