Elder Care: A Need for Learned Gerontology Skills for Informal & Direct Care In-Home Health Aides. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Cynthia K. Magelitz: Introduction to the US Healthcare System Shepherd University MBA Studies: Health Concentration 11/20/2013 Elder Care: a Need for Learned Gerontology Skills for Informal & Direct Care In-Home Health Aides. I. Late Adulthood Years A. Gerontology B. Working With the Aging C. A Growing
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time‚ I worked up at Portland VA Medical Center on a neurology general medicine floor. It was through my experience working in geriatrics‚ I found my passion or more that my passion found me. My passion is Gerontology‚ a vastly growing field remaining undiscovered. My inquiry into Gerontology is what drove me to Marylhurst University. It is at Marylhurst‚ where I found my calling. The Human Studies program offered a scholarship of integrated
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full-time and enrolled half-time in the Masters of Arts online program at USC’s Davis School of Gerontology‚ I am a goal-oriented person. This orientation drives me to achieve any goal I set through persistence and commitment. Although I have balanced work‚ school‚ single parenting with grace‚ I continue to remain motivated. The goals I have set for myself are twofold. First obtain a Masters of Arts in Gerontology; the elder generation impacts our future one‚ and it’s crucial that we care for our elderly
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Kawamoto‚ Kiyak. Aging Matters: An Introduction to Social Gerontology) This includes things like bathrooms with roll in showers‚ hands-free facets‚ nonskid flooring‚ same lighting through out the house‚ among other things. Something similar to universal design is flexible housing. Flexible housing are “homes that can be built and remodeled for use throughout the lifetime.” (Hooyman‚ Kawamoto‚ Kiyak. Aging Matters: An Introduction to Social Gerontology) This could include moveable walls or wide hallways
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Social Theories of Aging Introduction The fundamental biological problem that all theories of aging seek to explain was stated very elegantly in 1957 by Williams when he wrote‚ "It is indeed remarkable that after a seemingly miraculous feat of morphogenesis‚ a complex metazoan should be unable to perform the much simpler task of merely maintaining what is already formed." The difficulty in attempting to establish an understanding of aging is that it is not a single physiological process. It is
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Trend Article Analysis The following essay will touch on the journal article titled Publication trends in behavioral gerontology in the past 25 years: are the elderly still an understudied population in behavioral research?‚ in which the researchers will attempt to answer the question of gerontology and whether it is an understudied and underreported research topic within the field of behavioral research. The goal of the essay is to determine the research article methodology‚ procedures and
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home and private or government institutes. Future possibilities for improvement of facilities for the good health and wellbeing of our elderly are also discussed. Introduction of gerontology Gerontology is an introduction to the field of human aging. Gerontology is multidisciplinary in nature as all aspects of human aging are viewed in this subject. This means that the study of aging combines information from several separate areas of study. Biology‚ sociology‚ and psychology
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In this article‚ the author discusses successful aging and the “new gerontology” and explores how these varying views about how people ages are associated with changes in practice paradigms. The author present research findings and practice strategies to support the view that risk and resilience theory can be a significant influence on future social work practice with older adults and their families. Given the far-reaching social‚ economic‚ and demographic changes in the aging population‚ the authors
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how factors like an individual’s economic status or his experience of an event significant to his place or to a group of people he belongs to‚ have an effect on his health. An example of such an approach to studying health would be the field of gerontology‚ which studies how people age‚ including not just biological changes‚ but also psychological and social aspects (like pension plans‚ life insurance‚ government programs‚ etc). (Bengston 273) Another example would be a research study by Elstad
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SOWK 505 - FALL 2013 Assignment # 1 - Article Critique Richard Kirkwood & Stephanie Smith September 13‚ 2013 Professor Dodson‚ LCSW Hooyman‚ N. R.‚ & Kiyak‚ H. A. (2008). Personality and mental health in old age. In Social gerontology: A multidisciplinary perspective (8th ed.‚ pp. 223-258). Retrieved from https://usc.ares.atlas-sys.com/ares/ares.dll?SessionID=U214440684U&Action=10 &Type=10&Value=69061 Assignment # 1 - Article Critique
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