general population (“Depression in the Elderly”). These suicidal thoughts or actions are one of the many depressive symptoms in old age. These symptoms of depression in old age can be lessened by exercise. By having the elderly implement an exercise routine into their lives‚ they can stop themselves from being part of the statistics showing depression in old age. A high rate of elderly depression and differing and sometimes mistaken factors cause the elderly to have to accept depression as part of
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towards children‚ abuse of animals‚ insults of a racial‚ sexist‚ or religious nature‚ and indifference to the unfortunate. Although all of those topics are worthy to be discussed‚ this essay will focus on the abuse of the elderly. The capacity to abuse and take advantage of the elderly demonstrates that we as humans truly are the lowest animal. The first example that comes to mind is family members who’ve taken one of their parents into their home with the intention of taking care of them. While the
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debating on and some are good and some are bad. So if I’m in a car or walking by I always see elderly people driving. Sometimes it’s frustrating hearing from the news that a life has been lost in a accident due to an elderly person. I’m not saying for any elderly to stop from driving I just want to make the streets safer. Some reasons why elderly should retake their license is because daily in the world elderly people can mistake the pedals‚ the gas for the break and also not looking both ways before
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For elderly people‚ a number of dietary and health related problems arise: Malnutrition: Malnutrition is very common amongst elderly people‚ as they tend to dramatically lower their food intake‚ especially after losing a partner. Elderly people will often eat small meals infrequently‚ rather than sit down and eat proper meals they have cooked. Fluid intake: Paired with malnutrition‚ however less common‚ fluid intake can dramatically drop due to elderly people just not wanting to eat or drink‚ especially
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health care workers to invoke the reflexive question when working with the Hmong elderly. The reflexive question asks‚ where am I in this encounter with culture? What is my point of view? How is that perspective affecting my view of these events? How is this inquiry changing my understanding of myself and my culture? How well tuned is my instrument‚ namely‚ me? Pg.315 (Omohundro) When working with the Hmong elderly‚ health care workers should be mindful of the plight of the Hmong people. Understanding
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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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Informational Essay Currently there is an extremely important issue that the public should understand more about due to its enormous impact on many citizens. This issue pertains to the safety concern surrounding the elderly while operating a motor vehicle past the age of 70 years old. This debate whether old people should be allowed to drive is often brought up by younger drivers‚ the reality is that all able bodied people who are physically and mentally healthy should be able to drive but
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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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As elderly abuse is a huge problem in our societies‚ it’s needed to distinguishes between the different types of elderly abuse and identify them. There are many types of elderly abuse‚ but the most common one are: Physical‚ Sexual‚ emotional or psychological abuse‚ neglect of the elderly and healthcare Abuse and Fraud. More types can be Abandonment of the Elder‚ financial abuse‚ and self-neglect. Physical abuse involves the using of physical force like beating‚ shoving‚ pushing which can cause a
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How would one feel about retaking one’s driving test? Why should one take it again if one has already have a license? Driving is a privilege. Elderly are at risk if they do not retake their drivers test. Elderly should retake their drivers test because some drivers may have medical problems‚ need to know all the updated rules of the road‚ and they need to provide safety for everyone. As people get older they develop more medical problems. These medical problems can consist of one being on a certain
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