Substance Abuse Among the Elderly Substance abuse is widely recognized as one of the most serious social‚ ethical‚ and legal problems of the modern day‚ but few people realize how serious this issue affects the elderly population of the United States. Substance abuse is generally considered to be a problem of early adulthood‚ however‚ the truth is that substance abuse impacts older Americans on a large scale‚ and must be addressed through a multifaceted approach in which nurses play a key role. This
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Stereotypes are very common when speaking about the elderly community and a common misconception is that elderly people are typically forgetful‚ forgetting the faces of people they’ve seen many times‚ forgetting to do simple daily routines‚ and forgetting things that were mentioned to them recently. We tend to see this ideology a lot within the media such as on television shows or health ads. However‚ the image of the forgetful older person is generally nothing more than a false stereotype that has
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Psychology of Sex Offenders Following offences warrant inclusion on the register: Rape Intercourse with a girl under age of 16 Incest by a man Buggery Indecency between men Indecent assault on a man‚ women‚ boy‚ girl. Assault with intent to commit buggery Causing or encouraging prostitution of‚ or intercourse with‚ or indecent assault on‚ a girl under 16. Indecent conduct towards a young child Inciting a girl under 16 to have incestuous sexual intercourse Production of possession of
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Elderly Interview Yvette Rivera Professor Buckman N461 Summer 2014 Ms. Leiva is a 65 year old female born and raised in El Salvador. She immigrated to the United States in the 1960’s. It’s obvious Ms. Leiva overcame many adversities‚ from growing up in a broken family to teenage pregnancy to moving to a new country at a young age. Ms. Leiva speaks English very well and works as a Licensed Vocational Nurse at Solheim Lutheran Home‚ and has a second job as a hospice nurse. She currently lives in
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Abstract More than half of the United States’ elderly population is unable to meet their own health care demands. This includes preventative services‚ reading prescription bottles‚ communicating effectively with health care providers‚ and having positive health outcomes in the face of chronic disease. The failure to meet these needs is related to low health literacy‚ or the lack of social and cognitive skill sets to understand information provided to them or seek out new services. Low health
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number of registered sex offenders have increasingly grew over the years. Every day you see a man or women added to the registry for crimes against women and mostly children. The sex offender registries biggest and main focus is to keep the people in the community in each city and state informed and protected. ”Sex offenders and sex crimes provoke a great deal of anxiety in our society.” Baker‚ J‚ Brannon‚ Y‚ N.‚ Fortney. ‚ Levenson‚ J.S. (“Public Perceptions about Sex Offenders and Community Protection”)
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It has long been suspected that sex offenders have lower IQs than non-sex offenders. Studies on the topic go as far back as 80 years. A large number of these studies on the topic of sex offender IQ‚ however‚ use no classification scheme to break down the sex offenses by subcategories‚ such as the age group of victim or age group of the offender. In fact‚ all of the previous studies on the topic of sexual offender IQ lump all subjects into a single‚ heterogeneous sample with no distinguishing
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Juvenile Sex Offenders: A new issue in the Juvenile Justice System Morgan Cotter Juvenile Justice CJ 307-A Dr. Monica Robbers Marymount University December 7‚ 2009 Juvenile Sex Offenders: A new issue in the Juvenile Justice System The classification and treatment of juvenile sex offenders is a unique issue in the Juvenile Justice System today. This is either because we do not have much research on the recidivism rates of repeat
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a sex offender registry to be implemented here in the Bahamas. Prior to Marco Archer’s cruel killing‚ in 2003 four young boys between the ages of eleven and fourteen were found dead with signs of sexual assault in Freeport‚ Grand Bahama. These two alarming cases sparked a fuse in the House of Assembly and more emphasis was now being placed on the creation of a sex offender registry. While it is true that something needs to be done about the situation‚ is the implementation of a sex offender registry
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Introduction Who are adolescent sex offenders? In its basic and most simple form adolescent sex offenders could be defined as any juvenile male or female‚ approximately between the ages of 12 and 17 years of age who commit any sexual act with another person‚ unlawfully against that persons will‚ regardless of age limit. Research has suggested that adolescent sexual offenders are also embedded in multiple systems (family‚ peer‚ school) in which dysfunctional transactions are rather evident. There
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