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Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

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...

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...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Older Adult Emergency Department Care

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

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...

Article Critique/Elderly Exercise

were aged 55 to 75 years at recruitment in 1989. The active group attended 30 to 45 minute exercise sessions three times per of su...

Development in the Lifespan/Preschool & Elderly

to determine how scholarly sources perceive the generations, as ascertaining what the differences and the common features that can...

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...

Depression in Elderly

low energy; 7. feelings of worthlessness; 8. poor concentration, and 9. recurrent suicidal ideation or suicide attempt (Lapid and ...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

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 ...

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...

Scenario on Reproduction and Ethics

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

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Nursing Assessment and Elderly Woman Interview

individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Elderly and Developmental Disabilities

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

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

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 ...

Themes of the Film Cocoon

Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

A Biopsychosocial Perspective on the Elderly

increase from 5.6 percent of the GDP in 2000 to over 7.4 percent in 2040 (Investment Advisor, 2002). This reflects a considerabl...

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...

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...

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...