With the older adult population steadily increasing‚ society has a long way to go with embracing this population as it relates to the negative effects that ageism has on older adults. Western cultures are excessive about obtaining and maintaining youthfulness and constantly trying to find ways to combat the process of aging. As a gerontologist‚ it is my role to educate older adults as well and the general community about the issues affecting older adults including ageism. In order to be successful
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Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge‚ skills‚ and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching‚ training‚ research‚ or simply through autodidacticism.[1] Generally‚ it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks‚ feels‚ or acts. Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum‚ which itself is established according to a predetermined
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Insomnia in the older adult significantly impacts the normal physical functioning and quality of life of patients. Evidence suggests that insomnia in the elderly is often overlooked‚ or undertreated by healthcare professionals (Moren & Benka‚ 2012). Cognitive behavioral strategies have been recommended to help relieve and even treat insomnia in the elderly (Moren & Benka‚ 2012). The purpose of this paper is to examine the current evidence supporting the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
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| Hyponatremia in the Older Adult | 168344 | | Vivienne Ellison 09039422 | 8/6/2011 | | Hyponatremia in the older adult. Management of defects in water homeostasis in the elderly is often difficult because of age related changes and diseases that are associated with impairment of water metabolism. The feeling of thirst is often impaired in the elderly (Kugler‚ 2000). Hyponatremia is a serum sodium concentration of less than the
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tried as adults every year. Yes‚ the saying “You do the crime‚ you do the time‚” may evidently need to be set in stone for every criminal‚ but a child? To make this country fair the United States of America needs to stop prosecuting and putting teens on trial as adults. Ignorance of not knowing the law is not an adequate excuse‚ that may be necessarily true‚ but if the country wants to be considered “fair” then the court system needs to understand that children and teens are not adults. The new arise
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accidents‚ and injures related to burns or fires are a big risk for the older adult. Prescribed medications can even alter their balance or affect
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Angry with everything – society‚ police‚ and the way they treat us. This is a common point of view of the young adults. The fact is that teenagers are usually idealists‚ who expect that they’re able to change the conventional course of life. But after facing the reality they become frustrated and disappointed‚ because their ideals become demolished. The real adulthood doesn’t look like the teenagers want it to be. They are always confident that adulthood would bring pure freedom and choice‚ but
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1. Understand that any adult could be a child molester. There is no one physical characteristic‚ profession‚ or personality type that all child molesters share. Child molesters can be any sex or race‚ and their religious affiliations‚ occupations and hobbies are as diverse as anyone else’s. A child molester may appear to be charming‚ loving‚ and completely good-natured while harboring predatory thoughts that he or she is adept at hiding. That means you should never dismiss the idea that someone
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Initially‚ I wanted my research topic to be about the affects of foster care in adults. I was thinking about this topic because many of my friends‚ who are now adults‚ have been adopted or in foster care at some point in their lives. And many of them are struggling. A few have inadequate living conditions or are living on the streets. Another is struggling to stay in school. And a couple are on drugs. I wanted to know if these hardships were related in any way to that fact that all of them have been
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Resilience and Adult Development Chundra R. Smith University of the Rockies Abstract The word resilience is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. This in the psychological world still has the same meaning as Bjorklund states: “resilience is the maintenance of healthy functioning following exposure to trauma”. In dealing with life and adult development we are either going to become more resilient or breakdown. It is my belief
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