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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...

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 ...

treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

"an older person with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or assistance with activities of daily living" (Gray-Vickrey,...

been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...

depression in the elderly is under-treated, the suicide rate for the depressed elderly is double the rate for elderly individuals ...

is readily accessible by virtue of muscle and soft tissue manipulation inherent to massage therapy; that this particular complemen...

from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...

justice. The second would involve preventing the crimes from happening in the first place. Regarding the second leg of the program...

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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