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Drivers License Elderly People
702 wordsThe age limit for driving among teenagers and the elderly should be changed for various reasons and the problems that are endured by these age groups should be looked at closer. The law should changed so that a teenager cannot receive their drivers license until they reach the age of 18 and the elderly should have to retake their driving test annually. My views on this subject are strong for various reasons. One reason a teenager should be 18 years old before receiving their license is because a...
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Diagnosis And Treatment Of Depression In The Elderly
1,256 words... g interest in the results of cognitive therapy on elderly depressed patients. In addition to the success, the US National Institute of Health consensus conference highlighted the need for continued development in this area (January 1997). The types of psychological treatments used on the elderly are specifically designed for aged persons. The central idea in cognitive therapy is to take the negative self-opinion and teach ways to reverse this opinion. Validation and reminiscence are examples...
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Lack Of Respect Older People
697 wordsI believe that in the past three decades, the way society has treated he elderly has remained primarily the same. Some younger citizens have looked up to the elderly with respect, yet most continue to shun them and consider them useless and hopeless in a society such as ours. I think that the elderly population is continually losing respect from the new generations. Santiago, the elderly man in the novel The Old Man and the Sea, is respected by a young boy, Manolin, yet he is also looked down up...
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Medication Compliance In Elderly
1,324 wordsResearch Utilization Paper An Intervention Study to Enhance Medication Compliance in Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals Chris Elmer HSCI 401 Fall 2001 My research study was to determine whether daily video telephone or regular telephone reminders would increase the quantity of prescribed cardiac medication taken in a sample of elderly individuals who have congestive heart failure (CHF) (Peteva, 2001). Within this research I would disseminate the new scientific knowledge with the help of the ...
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Elder Abuse Abuse Neglect
1,832 wordsThe National Elder Abuse Incidence Study? Executive Summary? Introduction and Background America's burgeoning elder population has affected every segment of the social, political, and economic landscape. Public debate of the issues surrounding the special needs of the approximately 44 million persons in this country age 60 years and over has heightened national awareness and concern. As a result, public policies relating to issues such as retirement security, affordable long-term care, and quali...
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Abuse And Neglect Elder Abuse
1,834 words... times more than one data form was received for the same maltreated elder, describing either the same or different abusive incidents. It was necessary to identify such duplicates and count each person only once for purposes of this study. Out of a total of 1, 699 APS and sentinel reports, study staff identified 93 sets of genuine duplicates, resulting in 1, 606 unduplicated reports (1, 466 APS and 140 sentinel). Duplicate cases reported both to APS and sentinel agencies were removed from the ...
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Ethics In Health Part 1
1,619 wordsEthics in Health Care Table of Contents Abstract 3 Patient Rights 4 Access to Health-Care Data 5 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) 6 Health Care and the elderly 7 Decision-making in health care 8 Synthesis 11 Conclusion 13 ABSTRACT Health care organizations have a tradition of concern about moral issues and the application of ethics to the decision-making process. This tradition is due, in part, to the tenets of the Hippocratic Oath, the historical involvement of religi...
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Health Care Workers Quality Of Life
1,615 words... the federal government and its subsidiaries may very well support the medical needs of the low-income and medically-needy people, yet the administrators realize that by meeting the demands of their tasks requires more than any management skills, analytical minds or well-rounded experience to go with such tasks. For what the challenges require most of them is that sincere heart to really care for and be concerned with so many people who are frail, chronically ill, and those who are less fortu...
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A Day In The Life Of Elderly
1,423 wordsA day in the life of the elderly This interview was done with the elderly, whose name is Jerry. Hes a white male, 72 years old. Currently he lives in the mountains of Utah. Before he lived in San Francisco, California. Jerry lives with his wife. Her name is Ellie. Shes a little younger than Jerry. They have 2 children who are grown-ups and who have their own families. They live in different parts of the USA; therefore they see each other very seldom. Besides, his children work much and they have...
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Washington D C 21 St Century
2,788 wordsCultural Influence Paper on Aging Society It is evident that the United States is inn the middle of the demographic revolution as the baby boomers approach retirement. At the given moment, the senior population of America is roughly twice of what it used to be back in sixties, and within the course of the next thirty years, it will most probably double again. By the middle of the 21 st century, seniors will outnumber children and youth for the first time. Furthermore, the trend is true worldwide...
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Aging Of Sexual Function
1,998 wordsAging of Sexual Function The majority of researches and practitioners allege that sexual behavior constitutes a complex interconnection of biochemical and cognitive processes. Age is considered to be one of the main contributors to human sexuality and sexual behavior (Segraves & Segraves, 1995). The influence of age on sexual function has received much attention in contemporary studies; moreover, the studies are consistent in their findings. McCoy in conducted research suggested that the age amp...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Managed Care
2,007 wordsMedicaid was enacted in the same legislation that created the Medicare program-the Social Security Amendments of 1965. Prior to the passage of this law, health care services for the indigent were provided primarily through a patchwork of programs sponsored by State and local governments, charities, and community hospitals. Before 1965, Federal assistance to the States for the provision of health care was provided through two grant programs. The Social Security Amendments of 1950 provided Federal...
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Healthcare Management Of The Elderly
721 wordsHealthcare Management of the Elderly Nowadays problem of healthcare management of the elderly becomes very important. With the rapid urbanization and constantly increasing speed of life the family values become useless. People forgot that their duty is to take care of their elder relatives. That is why society is facing the problem of taking care of the senior people. There are a lot of questions on which scholars and professionals try to give full answers. All health care management can be divi...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Chronically Ill
1,957 words... the medical profession. Early reports from the USA suggest that the consequences for patients will be even more unfortunate than we have seen to date. The rising cost of primary care for all patients is tremendous. This often results in ill children being forced out of hospitals before fully recovering. The American Journal of Diseases of Children reports that some aspects of HMO policies were found to operate against the interest of families with chronically ill children. In particular, HMO...
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Filial Piety Vast Majority
1,264 wordsThe book Changes and Conflicts by Phone Gap Min gives us an analysis on how and why Korean migration to the United States has altered their traditional family system. Allyn and Bacon published the book in 1998. The book focuses on changes in gender roles and marital relations. Also Korean child socialization, adjustments of the elderly, and the nature of transnational families and kin ties are topics Min discusses in the book. Min uses results of several surveys as well as his own ethnographic r...
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Advance Directives Attending Church
3,173 wordsABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among cognition, life satisfaction, demography, and attitudes regarding life support among the elderly. The goal is to provide information that would be useful in developing programs and policies for the elderly in a variety of settings. A study using sixty-six male and female subjects was used for much of this research. In this study the subjects were asked to respond to the following instruments: The Life Satisfaction Index, th...
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Illegal Immigrants Skilled Workers
2,575 wordsFrom the origin of the United States, immigration has been crucial for the economic advancement and expansion of the nation. The US truly is a melting pot of many cultures and ideas, and it has benefited greatly from its diversity. However, with a much-reduced demand for unskilled or low-skilled workers, US policy must adapt so that it can better maximize the net economic benefits of immigration. While this probably does not include a universal drop in the number of legal immigrants, it would in...
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Poe Tales Elderly Man
1,328 wordsEdger Alan Poe Edgar Alan Poe was an American writer, known as a poet and most famous as the first master of the short story, especially tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe's writings have been debated since his death, but his works have remained popular and many major American and European writers have professed their artistic debt to him. Born in Boston Massachusetts, Poe was orphaned in his early child hood. Raised by John Adam, A successful businessman of Richmond...
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Health Care System Home Health Care
1,398 wordsIn Medicare Medicare In 1965, president Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his Great Society program, its primary focus to aid in making American society a better place, hence the name. He targeted areas like employment, education, and medicine. Concerning medicine, it was difficult for many elderly citizens to pay health care costs after retirement. Johnson would abruptly push through the Medicare Act, which would provide the elderly with health insurance to cover and hospital costs. Medicare only ...
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Family And Friends Physical And Emotional
1,448 wordsStress and everyday annoyances are not crises. Situations that interfere with normal activity, inspire feelings of panic or defeat, and bring about deep emotional reactions are crises. A crisis is a turning point or a crucial time that will make a difference for better or worse. The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters one means despair and the other means opportunity. When a person experiences crisis, there will either be a negative outcome or a positive one. The direction of th...
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