Aging Positively Abstract A functional assessment of the elderly involves a multi-dimensional diagnostic process designed to evaluate an elderly individual in terms of functional capabilities‚ disabilities‚ medical and psychological characteristics. These assessment tools provide objective data to detect potential impairments among our aging populations. With these tools we are able to evaluate how elderly individuals are aging‚ what assistance is need‚ how to make sure their environment
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Carson-Newman University Student_______ _______________ Department of Nursing Date ________________________ NURS 303L – Clinical Case Study Assignment Client Age __________ M F Admit Date__________________ Allergies__________________________________ Admitting Diagnosis __Hypertension______________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity Level__________________________________ Diet____________________________________________________________
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Hypertension is high blood pressure. This is a condition that has taken place from your external environment. For example‚ you may be under stress at your job or school. The stress can be very demanding and causes several things to happen to your body. The blood is pressured against the wall of your blood vessels causing your heart to beat faster and harder. This causes an increase in your pressure and now your normal functioning of your blood pressure is now disturbed or out of balance. The organ
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Starting a Computer The process of starting or restarting a computer is called booting. When turning on a computer that has been powered off completely‚ you are performing a cold boot. A warm boot‚ by contrast‚ is the process of using the operating system to restart a computer. A warm boot properly closes any running processes and programs; however‚ it does not save any unsaved work. Thus‚ always remember to save your work before rebooting (restarting) a computer. Warm Boot versus Cold Boot With
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Assessment: The Impact of falls in the Elderly Grand Canyon University: NRV433V-1030 Date: November 01‚ 20013 Falls and its related injuries is alarming problem with the elderly population that needed prompt attention of authorities and society‚ impact on the elderly population is serious. In the article many aspect of falls and its impact in the elderly population is studied. It is important to reduce the associated risk factors of falls in the elderly. Falls continued to be the major
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Aging Media Review: “Depression and the Elderly” by Heidi Stevens Katarzyna Wiley University of Maryland Baltimore County In the article‚ Depression and the Elderly‚ Stevens points out that the elderly are more likely to have depression. Stevens gives the statistic that approximately 20 percent of the population that is over the age of 55 is going to endure mental health concerns (Stevens‚ 2013). This could be because the elderly is not receiving the proper care that they should be
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Self-Determination in the Elderly 1 Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Self-Determination in Elderly People Maritta Valimaki‚ Helena Haapsaari‚ Jouko Katajisto and Ritta Suhonen Research and Design Professor Pollack April 10‚ 2007 Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Self-Determination in Elderly People: A Critique ABSTRACT Self-Determination in the Elderly 2 This research
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(2010): Pain: elderly patients. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2011; 69(2-B): 387-394. The authors reviewed various double blind‚ randomized‚ controlled trials along with their systematic reviews to evaluate different methods of assessing and managing pain in demented and non-demented elderly people. They utilized articles published in Scopus‚ Pubmed and Web of Science from the years 1966 to 2010. In this literature they reviewed the physiology of pain in the elderly and the different
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Elderly offenders One of the biggest problem facing the correctional is not the disease all but the population whit elderly offenders are‚ that the population is increasing and the prisons are not sure how to solve this problem. The most of the elderly have been in prison for most of their lives. And when they are in prison for most of their lives most of them don’t have family members to take care of them or they don’t have any type of education and they have a difficult time in the real world
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Depression Among the Elderly Though depression and anxiety are common throughout the life cycle; depression and older age have commonly been associated with one another (Mulsant‚ 1998). Unfortunately‚ many elderly people are not satisfied and look at this stage as depressing. After years of planning‚ dreaming‚ and expecting the golden years to be the highlight of one ’s life‚ the increased number of stressors related to aging causes feelings of depression. Depression can happen at any age from
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