The fastest growing population in the U. S today is the very old individual age 85 and older. The ability to communicate effectively with the older clients and their families is essential to quality service. This article describes various communication disabilities associated with aging and how these disabilities affect important functions such as access to health care and maintenance of social roles. Aging is responsible for physiologic changes in vision‚ hearing‚ voice‚ and speech processes. Age
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Theories on Domestic Abuse Domestic violence is a pattern of repeated abuse that the abuser uses to gain some sense of power and control‚ over the victim. Unlike stranger violence‚ domestic violence situations the assault to the same victim. Domestic violence can exist without any form of understanding because you could never find out from that abuser why they abuse. However there are many theories on why domestic violence happens‚ a few of them that I agree with completely are cultural factors
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Dysthymia and Elderly Jacob Wenger Dysthymia is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders‚ Fourth Edition‚ Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)‚ as “semichronic‚ smoldering mood disorder with ongoing waxing and waning symptoms. Symptoms must be present for at least two years in adults and for at least one year in children and adolescents.” (Sansone & Sansone‚ 2009‚ p. 14) The disorder is further characterized as requiring symptoms lasting two years in adults and one year
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xxxx xxxxxx Psychology January 22‚ 2012 John B. Watson John Broadus Watson‚ an American psychologist‚ was born in Travelers Rest‚ South Carolina on January 9‚ 1878. Watson began his post-secondary education at Furman University where he got his master’s degree at age 21‚ then to the University of Chicago where he studied philosophy. In 1901 Watson got married to Mary Ickes and had two children followed by acquiring his Ph.D. in psychology in 1903. In 1908‚ he began teaching psychology at John
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The Idea of Mill ’s ethical theory is his Greatest Happiness Principle in that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and they are wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness is the pain and the lack of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only desirable things.” Mill ’s view of happiness is hedonistic‚ which suggests that the only good thing in a person is pleasure and the
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starting to appear. This threat being elderly drivers over the age of 70. These elderly drivers could be considered dangerous due to their decline in sensory. With more elderly drivers increasing over the years‚ drivers everywhere could be in danger. Within the next 20 years the number of elderly drivers is expected to triple in the United States (Older Drivers). To combat this the solution is simple which is to make elderly drivers retake a driver course test. Elderly drivers are not only endangering
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reports claiming that these thoughts are no longer true and that elderly drivers are considered the most dangerous age group on the road. The Washington Post said that in the age group sixty- five and over have accounted for “sixteen percent of all traffic deaths and eight percent of the injured‚ but they accounted for thirteen percent of the population.” With statistics so high why is there no questions being asked about the ability the elderly have to drive. Research shows that the older one gets the
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million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than 6 million children. The amount doubles due to the fact that a report can include multiple children. The U.S has one of the worst records among industrialized nations‚ thus losing an average between 4 and 7 children everyday to abuse and neglect. The sociological theories that can be used to research the issue of child abuse in the U.S are symbolic interactionism‚ and the conflict theory. Physical abuse of a child is when
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Psychology III-3 Did respect for the elderly stopped? ABSTRACT The experiment focuses on the recent study by Professor Luke Gormally about the dignity and respect for the elderly. This study aims to know about the prudence and care of the teenagers in elderly people. This will determine whether prudence of younger female and male is still manifest in our society. The researcher used field observation. And the result was the male still has the prudence to help elderly people. INTROCUCTION One of the
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paper will present and discuss Jean Watson nursing theorist and her renowned Watsons Theory of Caring. The key concepts will be described as how it relates to the nurse patient relationship. The carative factors of health‚ person‚ nursing and environment will be discussed in its relation to the theory. Jean Watson is a living legend to nursing and is still practicing her” caritas” and continues to speak to audiences in the US as well as worldwide. Jean Watson was born in West Virginia US and obtained
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