Elderly Abuse Rodney R. Jones Columbia Southern University Elderly Abuse Elderly abuse is an important issue of today in our society. In the United States of America we treat our seniors with a great deal of disrespect. In most civilized countries seniors are treated to a higher standard. They are often looked at as people of wisdom in most families of other countries. The American people are more concerned about self than about those who raised them and paid their way to through college. And
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Student Handbook Caring for Children and Young People. Once you have read this handbook‚ it will help you understand why many children often end up being looked after by other people rather than their parents. When a child ends up getting” looked after” it means the local authority has placed a care order to be put in place for them to be placed in someone else’s care. There are two types of care that a child can enter into. One is voluntary where their parents put them in care because
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THE ELDERLY SHOULDN’T LIVE IN OLD FOLKS’ HOMES Lately the trend of sending the elderly to the old folks’ home is increasing tremendously from time to time especially those who are bed-ridden and weak due to sickness. Moving an elderly parent into a residential care or old folks’ home is a major decision and not one to be taken lightly. There are financial‚ welfare and psychological aspects to be considered and very often it is a last resort. Sending elderly parents to a care or nursing home
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Graded Unit Planning Stage Kirsty Lafferty I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which
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Description Within my college course iam doing my placement in an elderly care home. The unit I’m in tends to be more frail elderly clients. Due to the data protection act 1998 I will be changing names of the clients nursing staff and location to safeguard their confidentially. It is also complies with the NMC 2012 “you must respect people’s right to confidentiality” (NMC2012). Within the home there is an elderly gentleman called Alec‚ Alec has osteoarthritis and uses a wheelchair his mobility
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Role opportunities for nurses in Community Care in elderly Community nurses focus on • Health promotion • Disease prevention • Wellness (Westley & Fletcher‚ 2004 cited in Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2004). To achieve these goals‚ nurses are involved in • Client and community education • Counselling • Advocacy • Care management (Westley & Fletcher‚ 2004 cited in Stanhope & Lancaster‚ 2004). Health promotion: Community nurses may inform health promotion strategies according to individual
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hearing problem and could not communicate in the first languageproperly‚ so the non-verbal communication plays a role. Caris-Verhallen et al (1999‚ p.809) state that the non-verbal communication becomes important whencommunicating with the elderly people who develop a hearing problem. Hollman et al (2005‚ p31) suggests some effective ways to maximize the communication 5 with hearing impairment people such as always gains the person’s attentionbefore speaking‚ visible
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in-depth interviews on the perspectives of elderly persons were held with 4 participants aged above 60‚ recruited from a community medical center. Results All respondents rated themselves as ageing successful. Five themes were identified: Good health and ability of self-care‚ good family relationship and being cared for‚ feeling of contentment‚ economic security‚ and social activities. This reflected the multi-dimensional perspective in local elderly people. Conclusions A life span perspective
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1 A study on the Social activeness and Death anxiety among the elderly *S. Thenndral *Hannah Paul Abstract: The world health organisation recognises anyone above the age of 60 as elderly‚ the phase after which is termed as ‘late adulthood’. This period is marked by characteristic physical‚ cognitive and psychosocial changes‚ social activeness being one such area in which the change is clearly visible.(Papalia‚ D.E.‚ 2008) The indulgence of oneself in social activities like attending
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Caring for someone with a disability can be both difficult and rewarding. In Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Hadden‚ shows a parent caring for a child with a disability may be stressful at times but it can be very rewarding as well. Christopher dad had a lot of tolerance and patience to deal with Christopher and had many stressful times with him. He felt like he wonted to go and sit in the corner and yell and scream like Christopher did. But as a good parent would do‚
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