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    Geriatric Elderly

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    As individuals age, it is likely that they will require some form of medication to treat the development of health conditions. Health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and high cholesterol, are more likely to occur. Most of these conditions require the administration of pharmacology. Geriatric patients are therefore more likely to be on medications, and often on multiple medications at once, a condition called polypharmacy. Age-related changes in the human body…

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    While we all have to face our own mortality at some point within our lives there is recognition that we each face it in a different way. What causes someone to become more equipped with the ability to handle the death of a love one than someone else is a mystery that is intriguing. Does having the ability to witness more things throughout your lifetime better equip someone with better coping mechanisms? Does culture, religion, or lifespan allows someone to handle their own mortality. In this…

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    Older Adulthood

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    Death and old age is something most people never want to talk about; when one tries to bring up the subject, another tries to avoid it. Talking about the processes involving aging is noteworthy yet it is not one thinks about every day. It is the final process our bodies will ever take before dying. So, it is natural for people to have varying scales of anxiety about aging since this stage typically serves as a reminder of how much time they may have left. Old age or as others has termed it as,…

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    Legal Obligation In China

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    In China in July 2013, a law was imposed to force children to provide the emotional and physical needs of their parents. It includes that children should visit the parents often, or they will face fines and punishments. One of the most punishments they will face is going to the prison. In China also, parents can ask their adult children to sign an agreement to support the family. According to Francine Russo, a Journalist and speaker in Time Network, A woman found a negligent in visiting her…

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    Long Term Care Model

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    Long term care involves treatment held by nurses, practitioners, dietitian service workers to support eating habits and needs. The physicians of a specialty and or counselors are also working in this model. Some therapists are also assigned to support the elderly in life progression and decision making. These people hold vital roles in helping people cope with life and receiving the continuing care of a person whom cannot no longer care for him/herself at a personal base or in a crisis or having…

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    In “Different Skies” the old man purchases an old, antique window and places it alongside his newer, more modern ones. He has a fondness for the old window and its imperfections. It isn’t a coincidence that the old window is his favorite, he relates better with the old window, to its age and dilapidated condition. The kids threaten his old window and him in real life. Although the old man shows his disgust towards children, they are only a scapegoat. In reality, it is becoming old that he is…

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    There were many choices and ways that I could have gone for my activism action assignment, and in the end I chose to work a shift with my friend Justin at a nursing home for the elderly. Since I will be discussing different details of the shift in this essay, I will leave the name of the nursing home disclosed. However, I can say that it is located in the Pickerington area which is very close to where I live. Going in to this I truly wanted to find out not necessarily the working conditions and…

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    Rose is a sixty-eight year old, recent widow and retiree, living in the United States. She has retired a little less than a year ago from the child care development field where she worked for thirty years. Rose highly enjoyed working in the childcare environment; so much that she exceeded the average United States retirement age of sixty- two, by six years! (Brandon par 2). Although she now lives alone in her ranch house, seasonal visits from her four children and nine grandchildren since…

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    In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies”, she compares how childhood to a place where no one necessarily dies as a metaphor. That in short, that the innocence which comes with childhood and youth is where no one really dies. For instance, yes family pets, elderly people, but not much of people that play an important role in one’s life. Especially not your immediate family, such as a child 's parent and so forth. In the lines 25-28, visually you can imagine a…

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    The American Dream is a commonly understood dream. It consists of living a very privileged life. One in which one works at the job doing what they enjoy and is part of a family that they love. What is not as celebrated is what happens after this dream has passed its prime. Once a person becomes older, it may become difficult to do even the smallest of actions. Family members may become too busy or live too far away to be able to take care of their relative’s needs. In such situations, many…

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