Elderly Drivers Specific Purpose: We want our audience to agree that the physically disabled elderly people need to retake their test or prove that they can drive before actually getting behind the wheel of a car. Thesis Statement: These elderly drivers‚ who are physically disabled‚ should not be driving without retaking the test or doing something to prove they are still capable to drive. I. Elderly are terrible drivers. A. The elderly are an increasing population of bad drivers‚ because of
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more convenient for the elderly‚ so they can continue to live at home and have the care givers come to them. There are many different companies that will provide the in-home care. It is an alternative that is‚ more cost effective then nursing homes. Many have elderly family members‚ who are unable to take care of themselves. The toughest choice is trying to decide who is going to provide the care they need. According to the article “Public Policies Should Help the Elderly Live at Home”‚ published
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with elderly in clinical trial‚ the most misrepresentation of clinical trials failures are not due to their age. Age does not make an individual vulnerable; the most vulnerable population includes: children‚ institutionalized‚ immuno-compromised‚ and women. According to The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality‚ vulnerable population are at risk due to health‚ chronic or terminal illness‚ financial circumstances‚ or inability to communicate effectively and this all applies to the elderly population
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Old Age Attitudes towards Older People Attitudes and treatment towards elderly people can be said to vary drastically across cultures. From Europe‚ Asia‚ the Middle East‚ the America’s‚ Africa and Australia‚ the attitudes expressed by the community towards older people are very different when compared to one another. 1. In the 1960s‚ Robert Butler coined the phrase ageism‚ which he defined as: “A process of systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old
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2007; 14: 173 Á182 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Elderly persons’ expectations of day-care rehabilitation ´ ANITA TOLLEN‚ CARIN FREDRIKSSON & KITTY KAMWENDO ¨ Department of Health Sciences‚ Orebro University‚ Sweden Abstract The aim of this study was to explore elderly persons’ conceptions of what they expected to gain from attending day-care rehabilitation centres (DCR). A purposeful sampling procedure was employed. Interviews with 22 prospective elderly daycare patients were carried out and analysed
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Running Head: Enhancing Medication Compliance in Elderly Individuals Research Utilization Paper An Intervention Study to Enhance Medication Compliance in Community-Dwelling Elderly Individuals Chris Elmer HSCI 401 Fall 2001 My research study was to determine whether daily videotelephone or regular telephone reminders would increase the quantity of prescribed cardiac medication taken in a sample of elderly individuals who have congestive heart failure (CHF) (Peteva‚ 2001). Within
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make up a portion of the more than 50 million people living in the United States that identify as Hispanic or Latino. Hypertension is among the most common degenerative diseases that affects the American population‚ as the CDC estimates about 75 million adults -- almost 30% of American adults -- has high blood pressure (CDC‚ 2016). According to Dr. Thomas Pickering‚ hypertension rates among Hispanic Americans are the least of the 4 groups studied that included non-Hispanic African Americans‚ non-Hispanic
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quality of life‚ my interest in the elderly was high. My mother was suffering when she did not have to suffer. Being on a fix income and depending on her children‚ she was still lacking some important health care that needed to sustain her in her everyday living. Prior to reaching the age of 65‚ my mother suffered a stroke‚ which caused her to retire early‚ and then by the age of 70‚ she had a triple by-pass. Thank God for advanced medical technology‚ our elderly people have a chance to function
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foundation in the very inherent order of humanity that have been practiced and patterned over time‚ whereby the young ones take care of their aged parents. Due to the proliferation of the organic lifestyle‚ and disintegration of kinship ties‚ the elderly have found themselves on the receiving end of several life difficulties that were once cared for through the kinship arrangement‚ necessitating the need for the elder law. The key points of elder law are federal benefits‚
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Aging is a termed usually referred to someone that falls into the elderly criteria in order to describe their physical state. Most people tend to do this because people who are already in their fifties or sixties not longer have the strength and health that they once did when they were in their twenties or early thirties. Or at least this was the through process that I had when I was younger and this term came to my head. But what one does not take into consideration is that one begins aging the
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