Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Epidemiology in the Elderly with Heart Disease Public health promotes healthy living for each community through epidemiology. Disease prevention and control is the common goal of epidemiology‚ nursing practice‚ and public health. “Epidemiology is the study of the population in order to monitor the health of the population‚ understand the determinants of health and disease in the community‚ and investigate and evaluate interventions
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Depression Inventory for the Elderly (DIE) Depression is one of the most recurrently investigated psychological disorders within the area of medical R&D (Montorio & Izal‚ 1996). A number of exhaustive researches have been carried out to study its symptoms and impacts on different patients belonging to different personal and professional attributes and most of these researchers depicted that depression in the elderly people is very frequent and in spite of number of researches in this context
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Winslow Mrs. Bren English 12 April 21‚ 2014 There are only two laws that help protect animals from domestic abuse and one law that involves slaughter laws in the state of Minnesota. What people do not realize is that animal abuse happens in many different circumstances. Dog fighting and greyhound racing were created for the entertainment of people but are both considered as animal abuse. Circuses were created for the entertainment of families but what they do not know is that when training circus
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Drug Abuse & Dependency Some of the causes of drug abuse and dependency too show why some persons become drug abusers are the following: 1. Socio-cultural deprivation. The influence of socio-cultural factors includes rejection‚ inadequate stimulation and communication and other related deficiencies in the family. It is observed that a young drug dependent feels deprived of some social relationships with other persons to satisfy his needs. Early deprivation includes lack of maternal and paternal
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Drug Abuse Many people in the world have abused drugs at least once in their lifetime and some of those people abuse it every day. Lots of drug abuse often turns into a drug addiction which is much more serious and can even be deadly.Many people do not understand that people who have drug addictions choose to continue their behaviors or that they lack the will to quit. Many people just assume that a person with a drug addiction could just quit anytime they wanted to but that is not the case. Because
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Telecommunication tools such as mobile phones and the Internet are very useful. However‚ it is rare for elderly people to use them. In what ways can mobile phones and the Internet be useful to elderly people? How can elderly people be encouraged to use them? Over a century‚ modern science technologies contribute to our ways of life. Such as telecommunication industry helps people transfer information anywhere anytime regardless how much distance between the sender and receiver. However‚ senior
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Elder abuse and child abuse are very common in our society and has been occurring for a long time now. One of the main things that makes elder abuse different from child abuse is the age of the person being abused. An estimated 1.5 million cases of elder abuse occurs in the U.S. annually‚ according to one congressional study group mentioned in the book (Wallace & Roberson‚ 2015‚ p. 181). The text defines elder abuse as the conduct which results in harming or injuring an elder physically‚ psychologically
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and an estimate of 5%-10% of older adults living in community settings are malnourished (Maher and Eliadi‚ n.d.). These statistics sadly show that hospitalized and long-term care patients are more likely to become under nourished compared to the elderly population in the community. According to the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI‚ 2007)‚
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support your answer. According to common belief‚ we‚ especially the younger‚ usually learn many things from previous generations. Some even believe that the young cannot teach in turn the elderly. To my way of thinking‚ I do not agree with this idea in many aspects. On one hand‚ I admit that the elderly has played an important part in teaching young men‚ and we benefit a lot from their knowledge. In particular‚ they have incurred and undergone many events in their lives; therefore‚ they have
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2-20-11 Dr. Erick Agulair Child Abuse Child abuse is a critical issue in the 21st century. There are hundreds of children being abused everyday. This abuse includes physical abuse and verbal or mental abuse. The world needs to realize that verbal or mental abuse is just as bad and in some cases worst than physical abuse. Physical abuse leaves scars‚ broken bones and bruises just name a few‚ but all of these wounds heal with time. In verbal or mental abuse the abuser is hurting the mind‚ heart
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