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    for a Vulnerable Population Planning Before Teaching: Name and Credentials of Teacher: Andrea Herr‚ R.N.‚ D.H.Ph. Estimated Time Teaching Will Last: 20-30 minutes Location of Teaching: Staff conference room Supplies‚ Material‚ Equipment Needed: Computer‚ remote control Estimated Cost: nothing Community and Target Aggregate: Nurse and MSW Outpatient Case Managers working with Medicare patients Topic: The Elderly‚ Secondary Prevention and Screenings for a Vulnerable Population Epidemiological

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    Safeguarding and Protection of Vulnerable Adults. EDI Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (England) 1. Understand the legislation‚ regulations and policies that underpin the protection of vulnerable adults. 1.1 Analyse the differences between the concept of safeguarding and the concept of protection in relation to vulnerable adults. 1.2 Evaluate the impact of policy developments on approaches to safeguarding vulnerable adults in own service setting

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    Name_________________________ Instructor________________________ The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth Activity 1: Matching Demographic Descriptions with Population Pyramids Note: the spreadsheet software performs significantly better with Microsoft Internet Explorer® than with Netscape®. If you don’t have Internet Explorer®—or if you do but Human Geography in Action opens automatically in Netscape®—see the readme.txt file or the instruction sheet that came with the CD. It will tell

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    Economic effects of diabetes on the elderly                         Diabetes has been described‚ by doctors‚ as a metabolic disease in which the patient has high blood glucose (blood sugar)‚ either because insulin production is inadequate‚ or because the body ’s cells do not respond properly to insulin. The overall management of diabetes for older adults would be the same as management for younger adults. Nutritional management is essential for older adults primarily to control malnutrition

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    Social Inequality in Elderly Americans Elderly people (women and men age sixty-five or older) (Macionis‚ 2005)‚ Have many obstacles to face as they grow older‚ many of these obstacles involve social inequality. Not only do the elderly have to learn to deal with many forms of Ageism (the stereotyping and prejudice against individuals or groups because of their age)‚ some also have to deal with the fact that they do not have enough savings or pension benefits to be self supporting‚ for most people

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    Gibson Intro- Sociology 110 Ms. Willingham 10-09-2013 Substance Abuse among the Elderly There seem to be a problem growing in our society today that is affecting our Elderly‚ which is substance abuse. The baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 which are reaching the retirement age seem to be the rising population in treatment centers in the United States. The reason this is an important subject is simple; the elderly people whom I’m talking about are dying from overdose of prescription and non-prescription

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    some of the problems that adults in the late stage of life encounter are decline in mental and physical health‚ coping with the idea of death and with the coping death of a loved one. There are many social and cultural factors that impact how an elderly person copes with the changes of the last stage of life. Biological Changes Aging leads to deterioration of the external and internal body; aging causes memory loss‚ organ problems‚ bone and cardiovascular diseases‚ as well decreased

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    Their ignorance thus leaves them vulnerable to the malices of the real world.

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    times that of the 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

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    INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The rapidly increasing population of elderly all over the world has been one of the important concerns of the decision makers and planners on how to provide health care and facilities. Statistics shows that population of elderly accounts for one individual of the ten persons is now at age 60 years old and above. It is projected that in the year 2015‚ there will be an increasing rate of elderly population such that there will be five out of 10 persons considered

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