Elderly and disabled

Topic of Interest Paper Most elderly clients view personal trainers with tattoos negatively. For clarification, when I refer to elderly, I mean people aged 65 and older. This belief is inspired by the fact that the current generation of elderly people didn’t have as many tattooed individuals as is the case in this day and age. As one of my professors put it, “If you had a tattoo back then, you were cool. [And] It symbolized that you were part of a gang.” In that example, the word gang refers to…

Elderly Abuse Abuse is a serious crime that happens every day, but little do many realize that there is such a thing called elderly abuse among us. We tend to think that the staff and the elderly patients in the facilities, as we call them residents, wouldn’t create any harmful attacks on a resident that one may love the most. There are multiple types of abuse such as physical, sexual, neglect, financial, and emotional. Any type of these abuses can cause a resident to become depressed and make…

safety and prevent harm,but have not addressed the more significant issues at hand. We have confused autonomy and freedom, muddling the definitions, have made idols out of the concepts of ‘health’ and ‘safety’, and have stripped the lives of our elderly population of any substantive meaning or…

Older Americans Act was enacted over 50 years ago in 1965 order to provide millions of elderly U.S. citizens much-needed home and community services (Blancato, 2014). Even though it has been changed and updated over fourteen times, its primary goal is to continue to help older adults remain as independent as possible by staying either in their community or in their homes (Blancato, 2014). In order for elderly people to live in their homes and communities longer, they often need help from family…

courteous, and helpful little girl. Though she was only 7, she acted like she was a lot older sometimes, and this is because she was very bright for a kid her age. Nonetheless, there was one thing, which did bother Lizzie and that was no other than the elderly lady that lived on her street named Mrs. Crandall. Lizzie, as well as, other children on the block knew that the old lady who lived on the corner was a meanie. She didn 't seem to like anyone since her husband died a few years ago and she…

than 30 percent of elderly patients at a long term care facility were dehydrated (Schols, De Groot, Van Der Cammen, & Olde Rikkert, 2009)..Dehydration can also lead to urinary tract infections, impaired cognition, confusion, and difficulty with bowel movements (Schols, De Groot, Van Der Cammen, & Olde Rikkert, 2009). Numerous elderly people are sent to the hospital each year because they become dehydrated and dehydration has been associated with increased death rates for elderly individuals who…

For one thing, the approach to treating a geriatric patient who suffers from heart failure should be different then treating someone with heart failure in their fifties because of anatomical changes leading to physiological changes. For example, elderly people with heart failure have a higher probability of cellular death of myocytes, impaired stem cell function, reduction in cellular divisions, impaired release of calcium and malfunctioning sarcoplasmic reticulum (Abete et al., 2013). These…

cognition. To learn new skills, they require more time and training. Young people can perform even better than the elderly who have done double practice of the young. It affects people in professions such as piloting (2007, 267). Furthermore, old people need to be taken care of by several people, and they cannot be a part of the working population. Therefore, when the number of elderly increases, it can only cause the lack of labor force. Moreover, older people spend less on consumer goods.…

Islamic Elderly and Western Care Practises: Are we Ready for a change? Almost every religion and culture has a unique perspective on ageing and that perspective guides the care that the elderly receive from their prospective culture. However, as we as a society are becoming increasingly multicultural, there needs to be some understanding as to how western society can do a better job in creating a comforting environment for our aging based on the religious and cultural backgrounds of our…

Concept Paper Skin tears are traumatic wounds, which usually occur on the extremities of the elderly. Not to mention the amount of deaths that occur when skin breakdown doesn’t get treated. The article, “Preventing in –facility Pressure Ulcers, “ states that, “60,000 U.S. patients will die from complications related to hospital-acquired Pus”. (Sullivan, 2013). Wounds are classified as a break or tear in the normal skin integrity and tissues that causes pain and further illnesses. They can…