Home Alone

Nursing homes have been growing more and more popular since the 1930’s. A Nursing home is a facility that provides skilled nursing care to people with illness, injuries or functional disabilities. Good nursing homes provide services not only to improve someone’s health but also take on emotional aspects as well. Just about 6 percent of older adults are placed in residential facilities that provide a wide range of care. A lot of elders live alone nowadays and many of them are not in good…

for institutionalization is likely to grow for the seniors due to factors such as death of family members or friends, changing family structures, increased probability of living alone, compromised health status and retirement from the workplace. Retirement homes, residential care homes and nursing homes or long term care homes are some kinds of facilities where most of the seniors…

Mistreatment Case Study This case study was concerning the health and safety of Mr. Edward McKay in his home. Mr. McKay is an 82 year old gentleman who after suffering two cerebral vascular accidents has been left with left sided hemiplegia and is unable to speak. He is bedridden with bilateral lower extremity contractures, incontinent, dysphasic and dysphagic. Mr. McKay’s physical condition alone would require total care on a 24 hour basis to assist with feeding, changing and turning him.…

Foster care are like toy stores, every foster child symbolizes a toy who has put on the shelf and has been labeled used, damaged, and/or out of date. Still they have the same dreams and aspirations as the new models, to go home with someone who will love, and cherish them with all their overflowing stuffing, missing button eyes, matted fur, and uneasy temperament because too often have they been thrown about and trampled on. Too long for any child or toy to sit and hope for something better to…

Introduction The Home Depot of Canada is one of Canada’s largest home improvement retailers with over 27,000 employees (MarketLine Company Profile, 2016) and recorded revenues of over 66 billion dollars in 2010 (MarketLine Industry, 2013). The Home Depot is a titan of industry in the retail market and continues to grow today. HD Canada offers many lines of products and services to meet the budget and the needs of customers all across Canada. HD Canada is also a large presence in the communities…

Sports have been a key component to human civilization since the beginning of time, as our ancestors created and competed in a large selection of different physical competitions. Taking in these different sporting events, has become a huge form of entertainment for many people. Looking into the past, the only way to enjoy these games was to actually visit the ballpark a team was playing at. Even today, thousands of fans show up to a ballpark on a nightly basis to find some joy out of watching a…

“This record is not tainted at all, at all,” Bonds said. “Period. You guys can say whatever you want.” This was Barry Bonds in the post-game interview after hitting his 756th career home run to beat the record previously held by Hank Aaron. Reactions to this were varied, as some stood up for Bonds, while others bashed him. Either way, the use of steroids is wrong. Athletes that are proven to have used steroids in their careers should be forced to forfeit their titles because they gain an unfair…

substance abuse, parents who are abusive, youth with drug abuse problems, and members of the LGBTQ community. Homeless youth can be found in all parts of the country, banding together and creating their own families. Countless of them decide to leave home, because their real families do not accept them. 40% of the 1.7 million homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, or queer (NVSR, N.D). They either are asked by their parents to leave or decide to leave to find their own…

failure is a chronic and progressive condition and patients usually have associated co-morbid conditions such as renal failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and diabetes. All of these factors make patients more vulnerable to poor transition home or to other care settings such as skilled nursing facilities. Furthermore, the government and private insurance companies have begun penalizing hospitals for 30-day…

year in Kentucky alone 7, 162 children lived out of their home and away from their families. I have heard the quote “only to be a child” so many times in my life this is typically used in the context that this person believes it to be easy to be a kid. Many people don’t even consider the thousands of children who are away from their home and suffering the consequences of another’s actions. We all hear the good parts of foster care, when people get adopted finding their forever homes, the truth…