Essays Tagged: "older adults"
Alzheimers Disease
ease is a dementing illness which leads to loss of intellectual capacity. Symptoms usually occur in older adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be affected) and include loss of languag ... nows no social or economic boundaries and affects men and women almost equally. The disease strikes older persons more frequently, affecting approximately 10% of Americans over age 65 and 47% of those ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Maestro - different forms of love demonstrated in the novel
nd because of his lack of friends his own age his musical talents helped him to socialise with much older adults than himself. "I performed at those Friday night gatherings... basking in an older, mor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training on Memory: Can Increasing Aerobic Exercise Improve Long-term Memory in Healthy Young Adults?
ed an experiment on the effect of long-term exercise on psychological functions including memory in older adults. However, the statistically significant group difference in the memory test was due to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Lack of Exercise Causes Psychological as Well as Physical Setbacks
is "Lack of Exercise Causes Psychological as Well as Physical Setbacks". It states that a group of older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease participated in a 10-week exercise rehabilit ... exercising regularly showed significant declines on all the tests. Even though this research was on older adults with COPD, healthy adults who stop exercising could experience similar declines to a le ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Promotion and Price Analysis
n the market. Pepsi's ads attract the attention of each age class, allowing younger adults to feel older and more established and older adults to feel young again and take pleasure in the "Joy of Pep ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Congestive Heart Failure
hn's medical diagnosis is Congestive heart failure.Congestive heart failure is a common syndrome in older adults and occurs in approximately 7% to 10% of people 80 years and older (Resnick, 2004). "Co ... results in decreased cardiac output, which in turn means that less cardiac reserve is available in older adults. During exercise the heart is unable to increase the amount of blood that is pumped aro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Medication Adherence Among the Elderly
lanning and social work casework.Case managers can serve as consultants for families with dependent older adults or as contracted agent representatives for a variety of agency-based supportive service ... r 2000 census and 4,557 square miles in size, 12.07% or 4,083 of its population base are age 60 and older. There are seven service providers from Chico, Redding, and one in Susanville. Many of the eld ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Leukemia
ar alone about 31,500 new cases of leukemia were reported in the United States. Most cases occur in older adults, more than half are over the age of 60. But it effects both sexes, all ages, and all ra ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Aging With Exercise
en it comes to exercise, there are no limits. Anyone, at any age, can participate in this activity. Older adults should especially exercise. Exercise can bring so much into their lives. They would lea ... ctures, and promote mental health. Heart disease occurred later and less frequently in the group of older people who exercised than in the older adults in the non-exercising group (38). The same rules ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Social Service for Asian American
e of this study is to prevent isolation and unnecessary functional decline among Korean and Chinese older adults by enhancing their social, physical and mental well being through promotion of social i ... are a very diverse group. According to the 1980 census, an Asian American elder is described as an older person (age 60 and over) who is Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The New Vision Foundation
e of this study is to prevent isolation and unnecessary functional decline among Korean and Chinese older adults by enhancing their social, physical and mental well being through promotion of social i ... are a very diverse group. According to the 1980 census, an Asian American elder is described as an older person (age 60 and over) who is Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Asian American Elders
roundI went to visit Tae Keuk Village. It's a senior's town in Wayne and is available to low-income older adults. There are over forty Korean American seniors who are over 62 or disabled. I have volun ... to receive SSI because of changed policies after September 22, 1996. Even if seniors are aged 65 or older, they have to live in Michigan for at least five years with a permanent card.The other problem ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Suicide is not choosen
way out. Out of what is determined by each individual. Depression is a major cause in teenagers and older adults. "The depression syndrome refers to a cluster of behaviors and emotions that include bo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Alzheimer’s Disease
with no known cure or cause. How it works? It deteriates and slowly erases the memories of minds of older adults. Some of the effects are memory lose, confusion, impaired judgment, personality changes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
My Antonia - Summary And Analysis Chapter XIV
es irritated when Lena behaves flirtatiously towards Jim. The girls discuss how it is difficult for older adults to make the transition to a new country and how difficult it is to be the oldest child ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Health Promotion
opulation, is taking these meds without any knowledge or consistency in taking them. Most of these older adults lack a healthy lifestyle. They have little knowledge about the medicines prescribed to ... Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 78(12): 1564-1577. Watson, R. Medications and older people (2000). Nursing Older People. 12(6): 21-26.
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Dementia wandering behavior focusing
Summary"Wandering" is a common problem and it is frequently seen in older people with cognitive impairment, especially in dementia patients (Hodgkinson et al., 2007). N ... vention strategies (Hermans et al., 2007).Definition overviewwandering is a complex behaviour among older adults with dementias, has been defined as a purposeful and goal directed behaviour which mean ... increase agitation (Woods et al., 2005; Robinson et al., 2007). It may also be impractical for the older person to wear. If possible for dementia persons, how they feel about wearing these devices is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Staff Retention Plan for Cheyenne Health Care
of younger adults available to function as formal and informal caregivers to the growing number of older adults (Hollinger-Smith, 2003).Nursing homes across the country continue to experience a staff ... se do include the residents of the facility.Expanded targeted recruitment would be directed towards older workers or particularly retired nurses who may want or need just some occasional hours or days ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management
Physical activity and exercise in old people
n, 1988; Thomas, 2001), inactivity (King, 2001), and chronic conditions (Allison & Keller, 1997.Older adults reduce their activity levels as they age, and larger proportions are sedentary (King, 2 ... physical activity can improve health, functional capacity, quality of life and independence in the older population (Mazzeo et al., 1998). In this next section different kinds of exercises, exercise ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Issues Affecting the Aged
e adulthood. There is also a loss of bone tissue. A severe loss of bone tissue causes osteoporosis. Older adults usually lose lean body mass in muscle and bone tissues which causes weight loss. But th ... ased knowledge and skills are in the foreground, the situation is much different. Certain groups of older individuals perform much better than younger adults with respect to reading and writing skills ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology