Memory. New Scientist‚ 212(2841)‚ i-24. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 June 2012 Hughes‚ M.‚ Waite‚ L. J.‚ Hawkley‚ L. C.‚ & Cacioppo‚ J. T. (2004). A Short Scale for Measuring Loneliness in Large Surveys Kirkwood‚ T. L. (2008). Understanding ageing from an evolutionary perspective. Journal Of Internal Medicine‚ 263(2)‚ 117-127. Voelcker-Rehage‚ C.‚ Godde‚ B.‚ & Staudinger‚ U. M. (2010). Physical and motor fitness are both related to cognition in old age. European Journal Of Neuroscience
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Fitness Effects on Older Adults A Meta-Analytic Study Abstract A meta-analytic study was conducted to examine the hypothesis that aerobic fitness training enhances the cognitive vitality of healthy but sedentary older adults. Eighteen intervention studies published between 1966 and 2001 were entered into the analysis. Several theoretically and practically important results were obtained. Most important fitness training was found to have robust but selective benefits for cognition‚ with the largest
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Introduction Australia is ageing and nurses will be confronted with more and more age related diseases in the coming years than ever before. It is estimated that by 2050‚ 730‚000 people will be living with some form of dementia compared with 269‚000 that are currently living with the disease today (Help with health‚ 2011). This assignment will look at a case study in which a nurse is visiting a client‚ Mrs Jones who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and is currently being cared for by her
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ELDERLY CARE MINISTRY PROPOSAL We are grateful to our church elders for recognizing the need to minister to the elderly people who reside in our community’s assisted living facility‚ and for their desire to impact the residents‚ their families and over time the community at large with the love of Jesus Christ. We appreciate the confidence and support bestowed upon us in designing a ministry plan to care for both member and non-member elderly residents. It is our goal to establish a ministry
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The disengagement theory of ageing Social scientists Elaine Cumming and William Henry outlined the disengagement theory of aging in 1961. The disengagement theory discusses the processes of aging‚ it states that as people get into later adulthood they could experience stages of loneliness and become withdrawn from society‚ for example friends and family. This theory suggests that this process is a natural part of growing old. One part of the theory states that people expect or know that they are
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Stress counter-balancing effects on the well-being of older adults. Journal of Religion & Health‚ 45(4)‚ 587-602. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database. Sadler‚ E.‚ & Biggs‚ S. (2006). Exploring the links between spirituality and ‘successful ageing. Journal of Social Work Practice‚ 20(3)‚ 267-280. Retrieved from Academic Search Premier database.
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The Effects of an Ageing Population on the NHS Jack Bateman-Chuah 11072043 A six-part series‚ Utopia‚ (Munden‚ 2013) was debuted on British television on Channel 4 in January 2013. It detailed the lives of a group of people thrust together through an online forum‚ where they about conspiracies. They quickly became embroiled in a shadowy organisation’s plan to combat the growing problem of overpopulation. The plan failed due to their efforts but the implications
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factors. A social definition does not normally refer to a specific age. • The general retirement for the aged is between the 65 years for men and 60 years for women. This is a generalisation as men and women can retire before or after this age. • Ageing is a very personal adjustment‚ for some they can age quicker than others. The main sign of aging from an objective view will be the physical change‚ such as wrinkles‚ gray hair and walking support‚ so that is physical change. Aging can a mental and
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Hiring the Elderly: an Ethical Dilemma Abstract The purpose of this report is to examine the topic of hiring the elderly in Latvia from a business ethics point of view. Since there are several tendencies‚ like ageing population‚ lack of labour-force‚ a shift towards western values and standards of company conduct‚ etc.‚ that are observable in Latvia‚ the authors believe this complex issue to be of significant importance and controversy. While putting forward the principle-based
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According to Roberts (1970) older people are the whole of a generation who have survived to a certain age. They are not a deviant group or one small special section of the population. They are ordinary people who happen to have reached a particular age. There are several assumptions made about older people and their health. The first is that increasing age is always accompanied by increasing frailty and disability. As a result‚ the increasing numbers of older people in society are usually seen as
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