288 Search Results for Altered Health in Older Adults
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 mig Continue Reading...
Mental Health Treatment Approaches for Older AdultsOverview of mental health issues in the elderlyOld age is a natural occurrence for every human being, a stage in growth accompanied by several changes, which can be negative and identified as problem Continue Reading...
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The Health Maintenance Organization further should "…negotiate with both public and private payers for adequate reimbursement or direct payment to cover the expenses of interpreter services so that they can establish services with Continue Reading...
Health Maintenance Issues
Mrs. Gray is an 86-year-old woman who has been diagnosed with Type Two Diabetes. She has lived with the disease for three years. Mrs. Gray is single and lives in the area in a naturally occurring retirement community. Mrs. Continue Reading...
While sadness and grief are possibly the most commonly accepted and expected emotions, normal responses to bereavement can be varied, thus individual differences in response can make a diagnosis of pathological response to bereavement difficult (Pac Continue Reading...
Health Reform Act
The work of Flanagan, Miller, Pagano, and Wood (2010) entitled "Employee Benefit Plan Review -- Meyerowitz, Health care Reform Is Here -- Now What?" states that health care reform laws are expected to have an impact that is signifi Continue Reading...
To make the point Silverstein reiterates the history of psychiatric specialty nursing, a traditional role for specialty care in nursing.
To deliver specialized care to those in mental institutions, mental nurses were required to possess specific qu Continue Reading...
Health Administration
The purpose of this study is to show that there are many reasons why nurses leave their profession, but that financial reasons often rank very high on their list of concerns. Managed care issues and job dissatisfaction also pla Continue Reading...
Health Politics
"What is the role of Congress in policy making process"?
Policy is a plan to identify goal or possible course of actions with administrative or management tools to accomplish these goals. On the other hand, policy is the authoritati Continue Reading...
HEALTHCARE Healthcare: Living With Environmental Risks from NatureRadiation is a type of energy that moves with waves or particles, the most common type is ionizing radiation, which is extremely harmful (Funk et al., 2016). Radiation exposure has def Continue Reading...
Mental health disorder is a continuum ranging from a severe disorder to minor distress of behavior or mind. The prime target of the health initiative is to enhance the social functioning and health of mentally ill persons (Halpern & Kaste, 2013). Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Programs and Practices in psychological health
Introduction
Numerous years of research and studies in clinical psychology have illustrated that how individuals process received information, particularly with an attentional bias (AB) to Continue Reading...
Spirituality
The Effects of Spirituality:
The Mental and Physical Aspects of Spirituality for the Elderly
The relationship of spirituality to aging is not a new idea. Society, as a whole, has been thinking about spirituality and its effects on agi Continue Reading...
health care industry in America today is suffering greatly. It is suffering from spiraling costs, decreasing availability of qualified personnel, increasing demand for its services, and uncertainty relative to its future. Some of these problems are Continue Reading...
Introduction
This paper explores concerns about aging in the modern-day. It also examines the psychological problems that older people face. The paper sheds light on the social networks and the families within which the aging people operate. There is Continue Reading...
Marketing in Healthcare
Catholic Healthcare West
Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving parts of Arizona, Nevada and the majority of California. With 42 hospitals it is the largest Catholic hospital syste Continue Reading...
Legal Ethics of E-Mail and Social Media and Its Applicability to the Healthcare Industry
Consequences of Social Media
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Perils of Building an Online Network
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Caution with Employee Email Accounts
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Issues when Endorsing other Companies
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" (National Conference of State Legislatures Forum for State Health Policy Leadership, 2007). However, regardless of state, the applicants have to meet certain qualifications. First, applicants have to be both uninsured and not eligible for Medicaid Continue Reading...
Social Class And Health During the Renaissance and Medieval Times
THE BASIS OF PRIVILEGE
The Diet of the Rich and the Poor
What the rich and the poor ate in those times was vastly distinct (Cheng et al., 1999). The nobles and the wealthy could wel Continue Reading...
Osteoporosis
In a healthy adult the skeleton is maintained through a process of complementary bone resorption and deposition (Das & Crockett, 2013). The two cell types responsible for this process are the multinucleated osteoclasts derived from Continue Reading...
Prostrate Cancer Health Disparities Among Blacks
Prostate Cancer Health Disparities among Blacks and Latino Males
Prostrate Cancer Health Disparities among Blacks and Latino Males
Roughly 218,000 males in the United States some time or another are Continue Reading...
The program includes five components namely 'Family Support', 'Maternal Interview', 'Records review', 'case review' and 'Community action'. (FIMR, 2010)
The FIMR Process
FIMR Informed of Fetal/Infant Death
Family Support
Data Collection/Record R Continue Reading...
It was especially effective when evaluated for the specific demographic segmentation the organization was targeting. Young adult males were particularly inclined to watch the commercial, thanks to the buxom, bikini-clad beauty as the star. In additi Continue Reading...
Intellectual Functioning
Your IQ
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Stanford -- Binet Intelligence Scales
Analysis of Wechsler Adult Intelligence and Stanford -- Binet Intelligence
Present use of Stanford -- Binet Intelligence and Wechsler Adult Continue Reading...
Older Americans Act (OAA) was first passed in 1965, alongside Medicare and Medicaid. Whereas Medicare and Medicaid offered extended insurance benefits through the federal government, the OAA established "the foundation for a system of services a Continue Reading...
Access to Health Services is one of the main objectives of Healthy People 2020. As the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP, 2017) notes, acces to quality health care services is essential for sustaining and promoting healthy comm Continue Reading...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- A Case Study
Case study 'Monique.'
Case presentation and history
Monique, a female aged 30, possesses a history of depression and chronic fatigue syndrome, starting at the age of 16 to 17, together with suicide attempts Continue Reading...
Recognition of Delirium: Literature Review
The objective of this study is to conduct a review of the literature on the assessment and recognition of delirium. The study, which follows reviews literature, related to the recognition of delirium in ol Continue Reading...
IntroductionThe question of introducing a quality improvement plan to treat hypertension in urgent care is crucial, given the current state of hypertension control in the United States. Mills et al. (2020) argue that hypertension is mostly preventabl Continue Reading...
Policy
Democracy and Public Administration
This report is a theoretical essay on the inevitable conflicts that consistently occur between public agencies that are managed by unelected civil servants and the political environment in which these indi Continue Reading...
As mentioned earlier, the desired outcome of nursing care is comfort and there are many articles in which the researchers have talked about the needs of the patients and the things that alter the comfort of the patients. Kolcaba suggested that the c Continue Reading...
Tylenol Overdose
Health Sciences 101
The Health Impact of Acetaminophen Overdose
Acetaminophen (APAP) is a common over-the-counter (OTC), antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic that is more commonly known as Tylenol®, a product of Johnson & Continue Reading...
bio-psychosocial model to assess a 70-year-old adult (referred as Mr. X) suffering from mental retardation and makes appropriate recommendations regarding a treatment plan. However, before we make a medical diagnosis of Mr. X, it is important that w Continue Reading...
Furthermore, one of the pillars of collaborative care that will need to be firmly established is the fostering of clear dialogue and a means for strong communication within the care management planning. For instance, there needs to be a clear decis Continue Reading...
medical condition, delirium, and its relationship to the nursing profession. The paper is partially a literature review as well as a literary comparison. The Journal of Gerentologic Nursing defines delirium as "a syndrome characterized by the rapid Continue Reading...