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Policy Memo on Massachusetts' Single Payer Health Care

the United States is that this population generally consists of middle class families and children. In 1991, there were almost 36...

Mentally Challenged and the Challenges This Represents

been diagnosed with a mental impairment that does not involve substance abuse, 5 million of these are considered to suffer from "s...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Mentally Ill Individuals Who Are Homelessness and Program Services

Table of Contents Page Abstract 1 CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Social Work, An Ethical Dilemma

This essay pertains to a ethical issue that involves untrained workers being asked by the social worker's agency to instruct intel...

Public Guardianship

proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...

Developing a Care Plan

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

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Community Significance of Volunteer Assistance for Physically and Mentally Handicapped Individuals

everything, but I still can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do"....

Americans with Disabilities Act and Adoption

are asked and background checks are done. Everything is implemented to assure that the best parents are chosen and of course, a tw...

Health Care System Negligence

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

Internet and Disabilities

(NOD) by Harris Interactive, Internet use by people with disabilities is increasing at twice the pace of use by other Americans (P...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Social Perceptions of Disabled Persons and the Effects of Industrial Capitalism

see that there is little differentiation made between those who are ill, too old or too young to work and the disabled. The Poor...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

The Handicapped Individual's Societal Role

The writer examines the factor of self actualization within the life of a physically disabled person and how these individuals can...

Mentally Handicapped Individuals and Psychotherapy

In five pages this paper discusses medical handicapped and effective nonbehavioral psychotherapeutic treatment. Twenty sources ar...

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Disabled Computer User Software Programs and Assistive Devices

In 7 pages this paper examines the software programs that make computers more user friendly for disabled individuals in a consider...

Group Home Living and Adults Who Are Developmentally Disabled

they will require some level of support throughout their lives to achieve these goals" (pp. 52). Multi-disabled adults shou...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

Disabled Persons and Recreation Programs

This paper consists of four pages and discusses the reinforcement benefits received by disabled individuals through local communit...

Art Therapy Benefits

In ten pages this paper discusses how disabled and emotionally anguished individuals benefit from art therapy programs. There are...

Community and Mentally Retarded Individuals

In nine pages this research paper examines the community transition of individuals with some form of mental retardation. Twelve s...

Children with Disabilities and Education

In four pages this paper discusses providing disabled children with proper education in a consideration of the Individuals with Di...

Handicapped Labeling and Telethons

In six pages this paper considers the social dilemma represented by telethons which although laudably raises money for people with...

Disability, Eugenics, and Repeating History

In eight pages the Human Genome Project is examined in terms of the genetic controversy and considers whether identification of di...

Handicapped Children and Educational Inclusion

This paper addresses the inclusion of disabled children in schools. The author uses the Handicapped Act of 1975 and the American ...