Growing old gracefully in a challenging world is an achievement for older people. In view of the fact that past experiences can affect the present life of an individual‚ whether‚ it is a pleasant or unpleasant event‚ as long as‚ the older adult can cope‚ adapt‚ and also reflect the lessons learned in the past towards achieving integrity. The old adult stage is where the richness of the experiences‚ that can be extracted into themes in order to understand the process of aging. This study can be
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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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other health care providers important information to help guide their Work with older adults. Clinicians need to know more about this age group because the number and proportion of older adults in the population are Increasing and more psychologists will be called upon to deliver psychological services to them. Older adults are defined as persons 65 years of age and older. The population of older Americans is itself getting older. The “Oldest old” group‚ those 85 years and older‚ is increasing
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1. The research question being addressed in this study is how effective is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for older adults in Primary care. Their hypothesis was that CBT would be more effective than both treatment as usual (TAU) care and their talking control (TC). This is an important topic because about ¾ of the major depressed older adult population is remaining depressed a year later. Also not much research has been done on this topic and the research that has been done had high
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GE NER ATIO NS – Journal of the American Society on Aging By Andrew M. Geller The Susceptibility of Older Adults to Environmental Hazards Linking exposure‚ processing of contaminants in the body‚ and effects for health promotion. J oan Flood represents nine communities in Pittsburgh’s East End that have close to 20 percent of the city’s older population. At a “public listening session on aging and the environment‚” part of a series sponsored by the United States Environmental
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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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In this research paper I will discuss policies that affects older adults. I choose to research Medicare because is one of the biggest polices that affect the elderly. I will research the following‚ the parts of Medicare including the "doughnut hole" advantage cuts‚ what’s covered‚ what’s provided‚ Policy Challenges‚ Benefits and Affordability. Medicare as we know it today came into existence in July of 1965 during the Johnson Administration. Franklin Roosevelt’s administration was the first to
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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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Politics is becoming a more popular subject that people are getting into. Young adults are taught about the United States government in high school. According to Kei Kawashima- Ginsberg and Peter Levine (2014)‚ the likeliness of someone voting after taking a government class in high school is higher. Which means that younger people are starting to want to vote because of the increase in knowledge about politics and are interested in making an impact in our world. In a study‚ Geinsberg and Levine
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Safety‚ Communication and Placement for the Older Adult Steven F. Jacobson Western Governors University Introduction When an elderly person is injured and then discharged from the hospital their needs often extend beyond care one would immediately think of. There are concerns related to their ability to meet all the various requirements for return to previous level of functioning. The patient needs to not only take their medications‚ make appointments but they may need to
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