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Children And Adolescents Percent Of People
1,421 wordsEveryone gets the blues now and then. In fact, it's perfectly normal to feel sad and discouraged at times. It's also quite appropriate to feel grief after a loss. However, when a low mood doesn't go away, the person may be suffering from clinical depression. In other words, depression that is serious enough to require treatment. It is one of the most painful, but also most common and treatable, of all mental illnesses. According to the American Psychiatric Association, one in four women and one ...
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Hours Per Week Computers And The Internet
1,087 wordsIntroduction Think about Seniors in Cyberspace... what comes into your mind? Perhaps the words, yeah, right? If so, you are not alone. Many people, including the elderly themselves, believe that seniors are technophobic's, defined as those who can't even program their VCRs, much less use a computer or even begin to understand how to navigate the World Wide Web. However, times are changing. More and more elderly people are using the Internet. In fact, they are the fastest growing Internet user gr...
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Abdominal Pain Older Adults
1,519 wordsWhat is Crohns Disease? Crohns disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines. It primarily causes ulcerations in the small and large intestines, but can effect the digestive system anywhere between the mouth and the anus. It is named after the physician who examined the disease in a landmark paper written in 1932. It is also called Morbus Crohns, Granulomatous enteritis, Regional enteritis, or Terminal ileitis. The disease is found in equal frequency in men and women, and usually e...
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Age Discrimination Elderly American Society
1,207 wordsDiscrimination against the Elderly American society has been described as maintaining a stereotypic and often negative perception of older adults. This negative and / or stereotypic perception of aging and aged individuals is apparent in such areas as language, media, and humor. For example, such commonly used phrases as over the hill and an old fart denote old age as a period of impotency and incompetence. The term used to describe this stereotypic and often negative bias against older adults i...
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Episodic Memory Older Adults
1,243 wordsAbstract Episodic memory is the process of recalling personally experienced past events. The efficiency of this process is adversely affected by age. In a sense, this may explain the level of emotional distress that the aged and their kin and all others feel at the onset of failing episodic memory. Because it relates to individuals and their family and friends in a very personal way, it tends to rob them of past-shared experiences in a way that other memory failures do not. Introduction The mech...
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Visually Impaired Optic Nerve
1,359 words... s what lessons were learned from these three particular studies? The answer lies with lowering the IOP. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study evaluated whether "lowering IOP was effective in delaying or preventing glaucoma in patients with ocular hypertension" (Johnson & Brandt, 2005). This study was designed to identify the characteristics in progression of disease in patients. Also identified as major predictive factors for development of glaucoma was optic nerve anatomy and central ...
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Bodily Fluids Hiv Aids
1,812 words... to gt test compare to at-risk individuals in the tennis. Because so fw senior hav bn test, it's hard to know how many ar infected -- and how many ar unwittingly passing th virus on to othr's. "Nobody knows what's going on with th or adult, " says Joseph Catania of th University of California at San Francisco, on of th country's lading AIDS rsarchrs and co-author of th 1994 study. vn when senior develop AIDS-read symptoms lik wasting, dementia and pneumonia, doctors frequently don't think to ...
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Role Of The Physical Exercises In Process Aging
862 wordsRole of the Physical Exercises in the Process of Aging Physical activity can retard a decline in many of the determinants of physical ability. Exercise has been shown to improve strength, [ 2 - 10 ] endurance, [ 11, 12 ] flexibility, [ 13 ] and balance [ 14 ] in older adults. Increasing the level of physical activity, therefore, might retard individuals aging processes. In addition, sustained physical activity throughout life could prevent the onset of some disabilities. Outcome studies examinin...
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Older Adults Body Fluids
558 wordsWorks Cited Fackelmann, Kathleen. The Hepatitis G Enigma. Science News Apr 13, 1996: 238 - 239. UMI Company. CD-ROM. Unknown Author. Hepatitis C. MAYO Summer 199 New York State Dept. of Health. Hepatitis A. [Online] Available gopher: hepa. txt at mole. health. state. ny. us, 11 - 13 - 96 New York State Dept. of Health. Hepatitis C. [Online] Available gopher: hepa. txt at mole. health. state. ny. us, 11 - 13 - 96 Rossi, Lisa. Hepatitis. [Online] Available usenet: web Schlepphorst, Richard. Octobe...
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American Psychiatric Association Sympathetic Nervous System
6,427 wordsMind-Body Therapies The mind and body are so completely connected that physical activities such as yoga and dance have healthful effects not only on the body but also on mental ailments such as depression and anxiety. Conversely, mental approaches such as hypnosis and imagery benefit physical problems such as hypertension and immune deficiency. Having an understanding of the mind-body connection helps us to see why CAM interventions prove helpful in the treatment of depression. For example, acco...
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