Home Alone

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currently oversees a 55-bed skilled nursing facility and a 12-unit senior apartment building. The Good Samaritan Society is one of the largest providers of senior care in the country, and so their processes are a little different than the average stand-alone facility. The Good Samaritan Society has a policy, procedure, or system in place for just about everything that could occur in one of their facilities. Due to to the nature of the working for a large organization, Libby only oversees a…

A major role of practicing healthcare professionals in today’s society is their moral and ethical approaches to a patient’s overall care. In this specific case, Martha Rogers, an 85-year-old gerontology patient, was admitted to a psychiatric unit of the hospital due to confusion and increasing irritability. Following evaluation, healthcare providers found she was dehydrated which may have caused some of the symptoms that she was undergoing; Mrs. Rogers, however, became calm and cooperative with…

The cooler weather was also a much better time to make the move from the city to her new home in a quite rural community. The good deal she had gotten on the old farm house sitting on five acres was too good to pass up. She didn’t like the idea that there was only one bathroom, which was downstairs, but since it would only be her living there it wasn’t really that big of an issue. She had been living alone for close to three years now, since her husband Mark had been shot in a carjacking in St…

The purpose of this systematic review is to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy in the management of depression among older adults. In this systematic review, six studies that met the inclusion criteria were included and analyzed. In general, all six studies showed that music therapy is an effective treatment of depressive symptoms for older adults who are 65 years or older with or without dementia. Among four randomized control trials, three studies conducted music therapy was conducted…

hospitals, Nursing homes and other health care facilities (Colon-Emeric, 2013). The fall reduction program will be implemented by introducing various changes that will go a long way in reducing patient falls. One of the changes will be launching education program in healthcare centers. The training program will kick off in the nursing home and other healthcare facilities. Methods of obtaining necessary approval(s) and securing support The healthcare industry including Nursing home Centre has…

“I loved baseball for a while, then wasn’t so sure, then loved it again” (Ankiel 1). In just one sentence of the Autobiography, The Phenomenon, Rick Ankiel described the many difficulties that came along his route to success. He was budding into one of the best young pitchers to step on the face of the earth, but then came the pressure, the yips, and the pitch that changed his life. Ankiel’s book is an incredible story of how a big leaguer overcame the mental roadblocks in his mind to become a…

“The announcement came the day before Thanksgiving, but there was nothing in it to be thankful for: An experimental Alzheimer’s drug many thought would slow the disease steady cognitive decline had failed to make a significant difference in a massive trial of people with early signs of the illness.” (Dolgin n.pag.) Unfortunately this is everyday news to people around the world and with this news comes a price (a very high one in fact) and many dangers. Consumers and patients are in danger when…

Priyanka Rajani Dr. Maddex 380:27 Class #16 Prevent Doctors from Drugging Foster Kids Introduction I. Attention getter: Tisha Ortiz was abused as a foster kid throughout her childhood. With the neglect she faced in her group home, it was only natural that she ended up having behavioral issues. In her statement, given to the ABC 10 website on October 20, 2016, Ortiz explains that as a foster child she was over-prescribed with drugs and had no say over what was being given to her. Ortiz is…

Choosing Your Senior Care Services Deciding which senior care services you or a family member may need is not always a simple process. Everyone has a unique combination of issues, and those issues will change over time. Some seniors can live in their homes with minimal care, and others have health conditions that require continual monitoring. The purpose of this white paper is to help seniors and their families establish a process of selection when considering proper care services. The…