Aging Positively Abstract A functional assessment of the elderly involves a multi-dimensional diagnostic process designed to evaluate an elderly individual in terms of functional capabilities‚ disabilities‚ medical and psychological characteristics. These assessment tools provide objective data to detect potential impairments among our aging populations. With these tools we are able to evaluate how elderly individuals are aging‚ what assistance is need‚ how to make sure their environment
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The Gestalt approach was about how people represent a problem in their own minds‚ and how solving a problem involves a reorganization or restructuring of this representation. The first central idea of Gestalt problem solving is how a problem is represented in a person’s mind. This means what do they think about the problem? They would give people a problem and then see how they could figure out how to solve it by restructuring the problem. Then the second idea of Gestalt is insight. Insight is
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Functional Health Pattern Examples Health Perception/Health Management Client’s perceived pattern of healthand well-being and how health ismanaged.Compliance with medication regimen‚ useof health-promotion activities such asregular exercise‚ annual check-ups. Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern of food and fluidconsumption relative to metabolicneed and pattern; indicators of localnutrient supply.Condition of skin‚ teeth‚ hair‚ nails‚mucous membranes; height and weight. Elimination Patterns
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Structural Functionalism Parsons divides the social system into four subsystems; community‚ fiduciary‚ polity and economy. These action systems are intended to address the functional requirements that must be met by society. Each of these subsystems are capable of evolving in order to meet the current needs of society. At its core‚ Parsons sought to address the issues of adaption (economy)‚ goal attainment (polity)‚ integration (community) and pattern maintenance (fiduciary). These concepts
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Reading and Though In Dwight MacDonald’s Reading and Though‚ he disagrees with Henry Luce’s Idea of functional curiosity. Luce coined the term “functional curiosity‚” meaning “the kind of searching‚ hungry interest in what is happening everywhere.” MacDonald’s opinion of functional curiosity is that it only encourages practice in reading rather than giving beneficial information. He considers today’s literature as flimsy and overwhelming. MacDonald assumes that all reading done in today’s society
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My perspective on structural explanations for racism and inequities is that they provide a critical framework for understanding the systemic and institutional factors that perpetuate unequal outcomes in society. Structural explanations highlight how historical injustices‚ institutional policies‚ economic systems‚ and cultural norms create and sustain disparities based on race‚ ethnicity‚ socioeconomic status‚ gender‚ and other factors. Here are some reasons why I find structural explanations compelling
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Explain Ways to embed Functional Skills in your specialist area. Introduction It has been through targeting the need to raise the standard of adult literacy and numeracy in the country that tutors recognised that many adult learners wanted to learn something for either pleasure‚ for qualifications or for employment but few were attracted to the classes of literacy or numeracy in their own right. No more so apparent was that in the field of English as a Second Other Language (ESOL) in which I
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am not an exception. We have witnessed the dominance of Communicative Approach with Communicative Language Teaching in the world in general and in Vietnam in particular recent years. For me‚ I will use the Eclectic Approach to teach English in the future due to its benefits it can bring and suitability for Vietnamese context. First‚ I will go through some literature about this approach. What is Eclectic Approach? It is an approach “in which the teacher does not use one particular method but includes
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set by the society are followed by almost everyone in the society‚ so deviance is a quiet broad and deviance is varied according to different cultures. Some of the theories which discuss deviance are: structural-functional theory‚ symbolic-interaction‚ and social conflict theory. Structural-functional theory approaches deviance as a necessary part of the social organization. They believed that deviance helps create social stability. Emile Durkheim was the one who made that point also believed with
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Stance of the Therapist An important element of structural family therapy model is a strong stance of the therapist in order to interact with the family and influence change. The therapist holds an expert/active stance and is directive. Additionally the therapist assumes leadership in the therapeutic process‚ thus he/she has the most power in the therapy room (Minuchin‚ 1974). Therefore‚ it is important for a therapist to become involved in the structure of the family and has to be inducted into
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