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in North Dakota (ND) (Molmen et al., 2013). Constituting a substantial portion of the overall state population, older adults (aged 65 and above) in rural areas are particularly affected by the worrying health care situation in the state, especially in terms of smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity. Education provides a valuable tool through which the behavioural health of older adults in rural North Dakota can be addressed. This paper provides an educational plan for reducing the prevalence of smoking, alcohol consumption, and obesity in older adults in rural North Dakota. The plan describes demographic characteristics of the community, the health care needs of older adults in the community,… Continue Reading...
Concepts of Altered Health in Older Adults
What physiological factors would typically increase Joseph’s risk of falling while walking outdoors?
Considering Joseph's age, he is likely to suffer from fatigue when walking outdoors and this might increase his likelihood of falling. Walking is considered to be a tiring exercise and Joseph walks for a long period. This increases his chances of getting tired and with tiredness, fatigue will check in. Fatigue results in Joseph's reaction and they might not be able to respond appropriately. A person is most likely to lose balance control when they are… Continue Reading...
Kolb's model of adult learning explains how learning in adults occurs. According to the model, adult learning occurs in four stages (Kolb, 2015). The first stage is the experience of an event or situation (concrete experience). In the second stage, the learner reflects on the experience (reflective observation). The learner then -- in the third stage -- draws from theories and concepts to gain a deeper understanding of the experience (abstract conceptualization). In the fourth stage, the learner uses the experience as a basis for responding to similar occurrences in future. In this… Continue Reading...
Rapid Critical Appraisal A Family-Based Diabetes Intervention for Hispanic Adults and Their Family Members
1. Are the results of the study valid?
a. Was there a representative and well defined sample of patients at a similar point in the course of the disease? Yes No Unknown
The study recruited participants who had type 2 diabetes and 1 family member from a community clinic that mostly serves uninsired patients. All the participants identified themselves as Hispanic aged over 18 years, had self reported that they suffered from type 2 diabetes and they had a family member willing to participate. Participants… Continue Reading...
EBP Programs
There are two important things to remember when it comes to the health issues of older adults. First, older and senior adults account for the lion's share of healthcare problems and costs as compared to the younger groups. This makes sense as the body is aging and/or shutting down not to mention that the bad habits (if any) of a person in their younger years truly start to take hold and render their effects once a person reaches their 50's, if not before. Second, there are common sense and evidence-based ways to handle these issues and help improve healthcare outcomes. Rather than try to "reinvent the… Continue Reading...
Missouri has seen a rise in African-America juveniles tried as adults. Statistics from 2009 state 64% of the juveniles tried as adults were of African-American descent. This is almost double of the amount in 2001 which was 36%. (Cooper) This brings to light an increase in racial disparity and the nature of prosecution in Missouri. Many of the cases of the African-American juvenile offenders certified as adults are prosecuted in St. Louis. "From 2001 to 2009, St. Louis certified 39% of the black juveniles prosecuted as adults statewide. St. Louis County accounted for 29%." (Cooper)
One such case is Ledale… Continue Reading...
children.
3. The program attempts to achieve a determent of crime against children. The program itself offers adult and training sessions to help adults and children be aware of what can happen when some criminal wishes to harm a child. These training sessions short in nature, provide a basis from which people (both children and adults) can understand warning signs of when a crime may be committed against a child. After completion of the program, adult participants receive a poster that they can put on a door or window. The posters serve as a means of deterrence. However, the program does not show follow-up or management of… Continue Reading...
An explanation of how poverty impacts the experience of individuals in young and middle adulthood?
The vicious poverty cycle in young adults and middle-aged persons suggests the passage of lifelong impediments and problems from generation to generation. A few transmitted plagues include: lack of schooling/education, disease transmission, child labor for aiding parents in raising the family and no basic personal hygiene. Extremely low family earnings and adult joblessness give rise to an atmosphere that makes it virtually impossible for children from such households to attend school. Meanwhile those who are able to attend school fail to understand that hard work and dedication will be… Continue Reading...
Right to Privacy and Consenting Adults: Examining the Sodomy Cases
The 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick represents the continued legacy of homophobia of the era. This case demonstrates how homophobia has amounted to longstanding oppression for gay people, and has continually thwarted justice from protecting them or ever serving them. Michael Hardwick was in his late 20s when he was bartending at a gay bar in Georgia. He threw a beer bottle into an outdoor trash can and was written up by the police for public drinking (Bazelon, 2012). The terms of this citation… Continue Reading...
their wrong behaviors by offering them early parole and shorter sentences. Letting juveniles languish in adult jails is denying the juveniles a chance to demonstrate growth and maturity. The failure to overhaul juvenile incarceration will result in young inmates being jailed for long and dying or being released when they are aged and cannot fend for themselves.
New York's Broken Parole System
The parole system is meant to reward inmates who have shown they have changed, grown, and are ready to rejoin society. This is the real essence of the prison system. Reforming inmates and ensuring they are ready to rejoin society after their jail… Continue Reading...
come along with old age.
The objective of this essay is to explore the experience of late adulthood and ageing using the case study of Mae. This study analyzes the interview questions to identify the health and social issues associated with old age.
Analysis of Interview Question
One of the problems associated with old age is health issues. However, findings from the interview with Mae reveal that Mae is still in a good health despite her age, and she does not have any major health issue. However, she confirms that she sometimes forgets things. Berger (2014) argues that as people grows older, they are subjected to different… Continue Reading...
supernatural, especially with the aid of mushrooms.
2. The role of adults is unique in My Neighbor Totoro, because the adults do not necessarily inhibit the girls’ creativity or exploration. However, adults do seem to symbolize the mundane world, whereas the girls symbolize the bridge between that world and the supernatural. Adults—or at least parents--are not present in Totoro’s landscape. Totoro becomes a sort of guardian figure or surrogate for the girls while they are away from their father. They learn different things from Totoro than they learn from their parents. When the girls do come back from their alternative reality… Continue Reading...
the cases, and the fact that most perpetrators are caregivers. Children and senior adults are more likely to be victims of abuse, neglect or maltreatment because of lesser physical and mental capabilities, dependence on caregivers, and tendency to trust easily. The likelihood of vulnerable children and the elderly to fall victims to abuse can be decreased through establishing suitable prevention and intervention measures that effectively identify and deal with risk factors and improve reporting procedures (Wolfe, 2003). The criminal justice system has relatively been effective in responding to child and elder abuse cases through arresting, prosecuting, and punishing perpetrators. A holistic plan for… Continue Reading...
of technology include improved social development through better collaboration and interactions with their peers, development of multiculturalism, and better family relationships and adult-child interaction (Hsin, Li & Tsai, 2014). In addition, technology helps in learning through preparing children for schooling, improved physical and motor skills development, and language development (Kirkorian, Wartella & Anderson, 2008). However, the negative effects of technology on human development during childhood include health related issues because of less physical activity, behavioral problems, and changing social norms. Hatch (2011) conducted a study to examine the effects of technology on children in relation to physical, cognitive or psychosocial development. This study found that technology has positive impacts on a child's… Continue Reading...
some of the main programs and issues that lead to drug use. Indeed, poverty and squalor can lead students (and adults) to deal drugs to cope and get money. Even so, the program does partially address gangs, violent behavior and other related items (Ingraham, 2017).
Another program that exists is known as Second Step. This would be the program that helps try to reduce aggressive behavior and impulsivity in children. This program is good in that such behavior is strongly correlated to crime and thus it needs to be addressed. One major failing of the program is that such… Continue Reading...
children are protected from abuse and neglect in order to promote their development and growth into healthy, well-being adults. To achieve these goals, social work professionals carry out several initiatives including creating, implementing, and evaluating policy initiatives. The various initiatives adopted by social work professionals are targeted towards lessening child abuse and neglect as well as providing necessary resources and support that enhances children's development and well-being. The development of policy initiatives that target reduction of child abuse and neglect is crucial because policies govern the practices of social work professionals when offering support and resources for promoting children's development and well-being.
Given the significance of policies in… Continue Reading...
Yet not all graduates are doomed to flounder in the labor market. I am pursuing a career in adult probation and parole. On reason why I am optimistic about my future prospects is that working in corrections is a public service sector job that does not have the same types of market fluctuations as jobs in the private sector. Not only that, the United States Department of Labor shows that this job sector is growing, albeit slightly (“Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists”). All college graduates need to be ambitious and strong-willed, confident that jobs will be available to them if they work hard, applying their education towards… Continue Reading...
rising employability skills requirements (Calotescu, Eccles, Hughes, Picciano, & Sidd, 2014).
Learning is affected by adults' experiences in many ways. Individual uniqueness is engendered by adult experiences which provide an avenue for learning. Prejudices are created through experience which can mould, hinder or accelerate new learning. Also, adult experiences can be responsible for framing or even totally overhauling an adult's self-identity. It is not accidental that the Chancellor's office, the Academic Senate, the Legislature, and other professionals are displaying increasing interest in non-credit programs. The rapid population changes and reducing educational level affecting California society and her economy has been the focal point of many… Continue Reading...
United States given their prevalence. Mental health illnesses affected nearly all populations in the United States including children and adults. However, the prevalence of mental illnesses among adults is high in comparison to other populations. Mental health problems among adults in the U.S. incorporate many different conditions whose degree of severity varies from mild to moderate to severe (National Institute of Mental Health, 2019). One of the major contributing factors to the prevalence of mental illnesses among adults in America is the rapid growth of the aging population. Adults suffering from mental illness don't always understand they are sick and are difficult to help. Our system puts them out… Continue Reading...
Children and adults sometimes seem like different species. Biologically, children change continually, their brains and bodies rapidly growing and developing. Those biological changes are accompanied by important changes to the mind and emotional nature, with each person exhibiting a different personality, attitude, and outlook on life. Environmental factors including wealth and social status, culture and ethnicity also play a role in how the child develops a self-concept and interacts with others. By the time children become adults, they are much different beings than they were even a decade ago. Adults change too,… Continue Reading...
