Health Screening and History of an Older Adult Kimberly Owens Grand Canyon University: NRS 434V (0102) June 28‚ 2014 Health Screening and History of an Older Adult Biographical Data Client Initials J.H. Age: 78 years old Sex: Male Occupation: Retired Professor Health History and Review of Systems Past Medical history includes : Essential Hypertension‚ Cardiac pacemaker‚ Coronary Artery Disease‚ Dyspnea‚ Sensiosenural hearing loss‚ Restless legs‚ headache‚ acute hypothyroidism
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Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults Every 18 seconds‚ an older adult is in the emergency room because of a fall‚ according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That translates into a person 65 or older dying‚ due to a fall‚ every 35 minutes‚ according to the CDC. Falling in adults 65 and older is a complex problem confronting public health‚ the health care system and families. Statistics alone do not begin to measure the pain‚ suffering and loss of independence that
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diagnoses and of the estimated 43 million adults who are over the age of 65‚ one in four has diabetes. It is very common for a nurse in any health care setting to care for an older adult who has diabetes. Hypoglycemia is one of the dangers associated with the diagnoses of diabetes. In the timespan from 2006 to 2009 adults 75 years or older who were diagnosed with diabetes visited the emergency room for hypoglycemia almost three times more than middle aged adults who were also diagnosed with diabetes
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SOCIAL POLICY 1. Private troubles can become public issues when there is a problem that has moved from a micro level to a macro level in society. This means that personal problems can start to affect a small number of individuals and their immediate relations. When the number of individuals who have the same problem rises on a larger scale‚ and it impacts on more than half of society‚ it then becomes a public issue. An example of this could be a massive company who went into liquidation‚ causing
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Older people and Social Care My presentation topic is social policy and older people and the key act I’m going to mainly focus on is the NHS & Community Care Act 1990. Going with the assumption that an older person is one whose age is 65 or over – the one distinguishing feature that they possess is that they appear not to work for a living. Older people have always been a major focus for social policy and because the UK is an ageing society‚ their importance to the subject is increasing further
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1.1 Identify key historical landmarks in social welfare focusing on the period upto 1945. During the period of 1900s to 1945s‚ there was various significant landmarks which focused on the social welfare of the people in the United Kingdom. The Uk government launched various welfare programmes through the social welfare provision‚ financial abet or social security which refers to a programme having the main objective is to provide a minimum level of the income to the people who don’t have
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Health History and Examination Health Assessment of the Head‚ Neck‚ Eyes‚ Ears‚ Nose‚ Mouth‚ Throat‚ Neurological System‚ and the 12 Cranial Nerves Skin‚ Hair‚ Nails‚ Breasts‚ Peripheral Vascular System‚ Lymphatics‚ Thorax‚ Heart‚ Lungs‚ Musculoskeletal‚ Gastrointestinal‚ and Genitourinary Systems Save this form on your computer as a Microsoft Word document. You can expand or shrink each area as you need to include relevant data for your client. Student Name: Lisa Greenspon | Date: July
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Unit 7 Social Policy LO1 Understand the significant historical and contemporary landmarks in social welfare provision 1.1 Outline significant historical and contemporary landmarks in social policy. Social policy is the study of social services and the welfare state. In general terms‚ it looks at the idea of social welfare‚ and its relationship to politics and society. More specifically‚ it also considers detailed issues in * policy and administration of social services‚ including
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question‚ “whether should we extend retiring age?” To give a decent answer to that‚ it is rational to collect as much comprehensive information as possible before we truly respond in depth. Advocates of extending retiring age claim that most developed countries have adopted such policy and gained benefits. The main reason to prolong working years in those countries is to increase labor supply. Denmark‚ Norway and Iceland are three countries that set the longest retiring age---67. Besides‚ employees from
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European countries‚ which has successively changed from a mainly ethnically homogeneous society into a multi-ethnic society due to international migration. Meanwhile‚ the issue of population aging are challenging social work practice in Sweden. This article gives an insight into social work for elder immigrants in Sweden‚ who are vulnerable because of previous events‚ cultural differences and communication difficulties. An interview case is introduced at the beginning to elicit some worrying conditions
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