K.G. is a single seventy-six-year-old First Nations male living with dementia and he has a history of alcohol abuse. K.G. has been living at Central City Lodge for eight years now. K.G. has a significant impairment of remote and recent memories. He has cognitive deficits in the ability to think abstractly and alterations in his language ability (aphasia). K.G. has poor judgement and a lack of insight into his illness. Currently K.G. has no persecutory delusions or any sensory perceptual disturbances
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Raising Awareness‚ Not Taxes A new theory suggests that raising taxes on junk food and soft drinks will lower the obesity rate among the general population. However‚ obesity is not just a result of eating junk food‚ and obese people are not the only ones who eat it. Focusing more attention on the way junk food is marketed‚ increasing health education‚ and seeking to prevent diseases and lifestyles which cause obesity‚ will prove more effective than raising taxes. Those in favor of raising taxes
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Florida is a melting pot of people from all over the world. Many who come are looking for a new beginning in life bringing with “them their cultural experiences from their native countries.” (Gollnick‚ & Chinn‚ 2009‚ p. 46) Florida’s multicultural population often mingles and gets along well‚ “but this rich diversity has sometimes divided people along cultural‚ economic‚ religious and regional lines.” (Chang‚ 1998‚ p. 72) Nowhere else have these differences‚ as well as the similarities‚ been more
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Running Head: DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 1 Dementia: How and Whom Does it Affect? Liberty University COUNS 502 B-23LUO Instructor: Dr. Richard Pace Shelly M. Becker March 5‚ 2013 DEMENTIA: HOW AND WHOM DOES IT AFFECT? 2 Abstract Although dementia is often viewed as an “old person’s disorder‚ its effects ripple down in many directions such as family‚ caregivers‚ finances‚ and the healthcare system
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Breast cancer is the most widespread cancer in women distressing 1 in 8 women all through their lives. It might increase at whatever time but the danger of raising it increases as women grow-up. It is far more frequent in post-menopausal women and the threat carries on increasing with growing age. Reason The reason behind breast cancer is not identified and whereas it can also take place in men‚ the much advanced incidence in women involves estrogen. Nowadays‚ breast cancer‚ like other types of
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A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF MAKING THE PUPILS OF AMBUNAO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGING 6-11 YEARS OLD NUTRITION CONSCIOUS IN RELATION TO MALNUTRITION: TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH STATUS OF THE CHILDREN ================== A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The College of Nursing Philippine College of Science and Technology Calasiao‚ Pangasinan ================== In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements in Nursing Research Second Semester 2011 By: CARMELA J. FLORES A descriptive study
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Homeostasis Homeostasis Is a technical term for the process of maintain a constant internal environment despite external changes. The internal environment‚ compromises; blood‚ tissue fluid‚ body cell contents and all the metabolic processes taking place. Constant in this instance is not absolute or fixed it is much more flexible and dynamic as it refers to the physical and chemical composition being kept within a limited range or variables for maximum efficiency‚ well-being of the whole body and
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1. Define and discuss the differences between substance abuse‚ substance dependence‚ substance tolerance and substance withdrawal. Substance abuse is when a person excessively uses a type of bad substance such as drugs or alcohol. Substance dependence is when a person requires drugs to function normally. This person first abuses the drug then it dependence on the drug to carry on their day normally. Substance tolerance is when a person has use the drug so much that it does not feel the same high
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advanced dementia receive hospice care. The focus of care should always be the comfort of the person with dementia. Physical comfort is a paramount human need‚ yet pain is experienced by at least one-third of nursing home residents with advanced dementia in the last year of life. This is frequently undetected and undertreated. Person-centered care honors preferences in social‚ emotional‚ spiritual‚ and physical care (Kuhn‚ 2013). Connections are made for people with advanced dementia by tapping
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DESCRIBE A RANGE OF COURSE OF DEMENTIA SYNDROME. The number of different types of dementia is; Benson’s syndrome (also called Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA)) Alzheimer’s disease Primary Progressive Aphasia (A type of Fronto-temporal dementia) Lewy body Disease (Also known as Dementia with Lewy bodies) Picks disease (A type of Fronto-temporal dementia) Binswangers Disease. ( A type of vascular dementia) Niemann-Pick disease type C Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease HIV Brain related impairment
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