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2002). Already, urban areas gain approximately one million additional residents each week (Meeting the urban challenge, 2002). ...
active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...
This 5 page report discusses the fact that the majority of the population is aware that there is a serious problem in America wi...
A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...
As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...
The Office of Inspector General, Department of Health & Human Services publishes several reports each year in addition to giving t...
responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
staying alive. As global warming continues, it influences the sea level; as the waters continue to rise, they will ultimately "di...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
elderly, the most common of which include chronic disease, inflammation and blood loss (Williamson et al, nd). Smith reports there...
her mater grandmother remained a homemaker. This traditional family format was also reflected in her paternal grandparents in whic...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
question was directed at the nurse. One of her companions noted that her daughters name is Nancy, but Nancy died three years previ...
In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...
well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
bias that exists in the media - particular in television but also clearly apparent in music, advertisements and all other entities...
the facility of national service volunteerism. Foster Grandparents -- history, goals and funding Many older Americans are in a po...
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...
able to evolve in a manner that is in correspondence with their desires (Atchley, 2002). At the same time, this learning takes pl...