...Epidemiology Paper In this epidemiological paper, I will be discussing about my chosen vulnerable population of elderly and the disease of type II diabetes among elderly population. I will also be discussing epidemiology and what it means, the steps and methods of epidemiology and how it was done for my chosen population and disease. Ethical and legal considerations, how to provide culturally competent care, and at last, I will discuss whether the research was descriptive or analytical, and the process of feasibility and evaluation of prevention of diseases. As stated in Nursing Standard, epidemiology is a scientific research discipline concerned with observing, measuring and analyzing health-related occurrences in human populations (Last 1995, Trichopoulos 1996). Mausner and Kramer (1985) suggest that epidemiological studies can be applied to all diseases, conditions and health-related events (Whitehead, 2000). Although epidemiology is focused on observing, measuring, and analyzing, it also evaluates diseases and health services, rationalizes resources, and prioritizes as to how to formulate strategies for health promotion. Epidemiology can also help to determine the health of the population, planning of health policies and services, and maintaining a healthy environment for all. When it comes to nursing, epidemiology offers nurses many benefits in incorporating health practices into their professional roles, helps them in having a better understanding in regards to the disease...
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...|Culture Analysis | Analysis Objective |According to Eric, Van den Steen (1990), a corporate culture is the sense of shared beliefs and values, through screening, self sorting and manager-directed | |joint learning. In order to understand the organization culture of KMB, we will identify the values and assumptions share among member of KMB. The culture | |artefact and shared value demonstrated the belief of former and top management toward to the organizational goals and it gave a guideline to the employees’ | |belief, behavior and shared assumption. We will analyze the culture of KMB with the following steps: | |Identify the artefacts of KMB, and then conclude the core value of KMB with iceberg model. | |Examine KMB’s culture value with the contingencies of organizational Culture. | Culture Artefact Stories & Legends-Caring Customer, Continuously Innovating |[pic][pic][pic][pic] | |[pic][pic] |80 Years Contribution ...
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...In contrasting Young Goodman Brown with “Girl” we can make a contrast in two different types of culture. Goodman Brown obviously has his culture developed around his Puritan beliefs whereas the Mother appears to have a unique culture from a certain time and location as well. Goodman Brown’s Puritan faith however proves to be quite shaky; anyone can change his mind as revealed by his impressionist ways when encountering the devil. It also can be the case that the Puritan faith may have not always been pure; this is revealed when the Devil takes note that he was present when Goodman Brown’s father and forbearers whipped Quakers and destroyed Indian villages, shedding light on the dark past of the Puritan ways. In Girl, the culture is developed...
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...My family is the most important part of my life, so with me, my family is my personal culture. I am growing up in a traditional Vietnamese family in which different generations live together under the same roof. The times when my grandparents, my parents, my aunt, my sister, my brother and I gather together every evening for dinner or chat about some simple things are always my precious moments. I love everyone in my family. My aunt says our family is lucky because we can be together. She is a nurse. She sometimes tells my family sad stories about elderly living lonely in rehab center. I get more sorrow feeling after I read some articles about elders are often abused in nursing home or at their own house. Therefore, I want to discuss about...
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...An aging offender or an elderly offender is an individual over the age of 55 who breaks the law or is in prison (Newman). It is also a term that can refer to the concept of an aging prison population or to the unnatural pressures of being incarcerated that accelerate the aging process. Oddly, the number of elderly individuals committing crimes and being sentenced to prison is increasing and that creates problems for the correctional facilities in terms of health care as well as mental and physical issues that the inmates themselves have. Unfortunately, little seems to have changed in the past 30 years regarding elderly inmates. Health care is absolutely a major concern. In many countries including the United States, elderly inmates do not qualify for state funded healthcare. The United States National Institute of Corrections identified that inmates over 60 years old cost three times more than those of a younger age to house in prison. (Aday, 2003) Issues such as chronic health conditions or ailments require constant care as well as continual medication to ease the physical or mental problems. Certain administrative bodies of these institutions claim that medical care for the elderly prisoners is the most costly problem of the aging prison structure. A survey that was conducted of criminals over the age of 55 that were imprisoned for the first time had higher levels of stress and a greater difficulty to adjust. This is both due to the culture shock and to the fact that...
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...tradition, culture, and marketing capabilities for each generation. Members of the younger generation are influenced by the most recent fads and trends, while the older generations are much more traditional and conservative. This gives our organization an opportunity to develop and market our product with the older generation as well as the younger generation individually. In addition, due to Marie’s personal and business knowledge of Japan and Japanese culture, we have a great deal of resources which can be used throughout the course of this project. The business we have selected is that of an affordable retirement home option for the elderly in Japan. Traditionally, the eldest son has been given the task of taking care of the parents in their old age. More recently, however, this task has fallen to those outside the family due to the rise in small businesses which provide these services. The problem with these services is that the elderly rarely receive care more than once or twice a week for a few hours at a time; the high cost of services discourage people from requesting more time. We believe that we can create an affordable establishment by building the retirement home in the countryside and hiring caretakers from outside Japan through a worker exchange program. Government subsidies may also be provided, as the institution benefits a majority of the population. We have researched the country factors, competition and market opportunity and performed SWOT analysis. In...
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...1. Identify the needs. Needs theory. How to increasing the value of customers. Meeting Customers’ Needs Profitably Market orientation Competitors Value proposition 2. Marketing Plan S.W.O.T. analysis Profitability, sales growth, market share, innovation, and reputation 4P’s * Stages * Stage 1: Defining the corporate mission * Stage 2: Establishing the strategic business units (SBUs) * Stage 3: Assigning resources to each SBU * Stage 4: Assessing growth opportunities BCG Matrix 3. Segment Position Target Segmentation: a. Process of dividing a large market into smaller ‘pieces’, or customer groups with similar needs and/or desires Targeting: b. The process of evaluating each market segment’s attractiveness and selecting one or more segments to serve Positioning: c. Arranging for a product to occupy a clear, distinctive, and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers Evaluating Market Segments d. Segment size and growth e. Segment structural attractiveness i. Level of competition ii. Substitute products Power of buyers Powerful suppliers Point-of-Parity (POP) & Point-of-Difference (POD) 4. Marketing research Data source Research approach Generating information (1) to identify and refine problems, (2) to solve marketing and other business problems, (3) to identify and to define marketing opportunities, and (4) to evaluate...
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...Domestic Violence and Elderly Abuse Policy By; Shay B. Young May 28th 2012 CJA 464/ Criminal Justice Policy Analysis Ronald Stock Domestic Violence and Elderly Abuse Domestic and elderly abuse is two forms of violence that happens to individuals from birth aged children to elderly individuals. Domestic and elderly abuse is a major issue that is experienced all around the world. These two forms of abuse and violence have many similarities, often times the abuse that starts as a child leads to abuse during adulthood. This paper will be going over the two forms of abuse, factors, statistics, and later a policy that is in place for the reduction of the two forms of abuse. Domestic Violence Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of behavior to gain power or control over another individual in a relationship. The abuse can come in forms such as physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological actions or threats coming from the control partner to the other partner. Domestic violence happens to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or gender. Domestic violence affects all people throughout different backgrounds, social levels, and educational levels. Factors that perpetuate domestic violence As mentioned above there are different factors that play a role in a domestic violence setting. Culture factors may include but are not limited to gender, the role within the relationship, values, and acceptance of violence as a means to resolve...
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...Planning Business plan for an Old Age Care Home in UK Submitted To: Marion Jackman Submitted By: Santi Thomas Date: 29th May 2015 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 1.1 Setting the Objective 3 2. Market Analysis 5 3. Market Strategy Plan 8 4. Operational Plan 12 5. Current and Future Financial Plan 13 6. Ownership and Commitment 14 7. Future Scenario 15 8. Conclusion 16 References 18 Self Assessment Form 21 1. Introduction In developed nations like the UK and Japan, there is an exponentially growing need of care and nursing homes for the elderly. This is because UK and other developed nations have a high percentage of ageing and mature population. Their population rate is poor and the people above the age of 45 are more than 65% of the population. This has led to a drastic change in the overall health and social care requirements in the country (Euromonitor, 2015). NHS is concerned and taking steps to fulfil this gap but it requires efforts both at public and private level to achieve this mammoth task of providing residential and nursing facilities to people above the age of 60 who are living on their pensions (Oswald et al, 2007). There are a large number of elderly people who by force or by choice live in old age care homes and hence the quality and quantity of these centres should increase manifold based on the growth in their composition in the population. So, a business plan and...
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...(WHO), mental health is “not just the absence of mental disorder but as a state of wellbeing in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.” (Perry, Presley-Cantrell, and Dhingra 2010). Mental illness, “refers collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders that are characterized by alteration in thinking, mood or behavior (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning” (Perry, Presley-Cantrell, and Dhingra 2010). Mental health is an increasing concern with the vulnerable population of the elderly across America. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are the two leading psychiatric diseases effecting the elderly, causing deterioration of intellectual functioning. Scientists cannot completely comprehend the etiology and progress of these two diseases. Scientists have learned that both diseases have signs and symptoms parallel to one another (Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, 2011). It is important to get a better perception of the development of these diseases, so the importance of understanding epidemiology is relevant. The author’s paper contains the meaning and description of epidemiology, the stages and approaches that will assist in determining cause and effect of the illness. Also the writer will examine how the epidemiologic benefits of the triangle, a preferred population...
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...The culture of life in Japanese is divergent with my hometown: a single dish never can be shared in any restaurants; wearing flip-flops on the street is not respectful; shoes must be taken off before you try on your clothes in a boutique. In short, Leaving from my hometown lets me understand different context beliefs, feelings, identities, events among every country altogether tell us that our diversity is sharing different cultural aspects. As a minority of the population in Japan, I understand how culture takes part in influencing people’s lives and I embrace the nature of social diversity. Theories / psy teaching assistant: A degree of psychology definitely helps me to qualify the career of social work. I learned how to diagnose different types of abnormal disorders and the treatments; I learned how social context influences our interactions with others; I learned how human being process their language, perception, problem solving on a cognitive approach; I...
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...A sociological inquiry of elderly out migrant returnees to Kerala Introduction “A home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to” -John Ed Pierce “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time” -T S Eliot Human civilization starts with the incessant flow of people moving from one place to another. Migrations of human populations have been a fundamental part in the history of mankind. Numerous studies show that the process of migration is influenced by social, cultural and economic factors and outcomes can be vastly different for men and women, for different groups and different locations (cf. De Haan and Rogaly, 2002). Migration is a subject that calls for an interdisciplinary approach. Each discipline brings something to the table, theoretically and empirically.(Brettell and Hollifield,2002) Demographers have perhaps the best empirical grasp on te movement of people across boundaries, they have the theoretical and methodological tools to show us how such movements affect popultion dynamics in the sending and receiving societies. Anthropologist looks at networks and transnational communities. Historians portray migrant experience in al of its complexity, giving us a much greater empathetic understanding of the hopes and ambitions of migrants. Political scientist help us to understand the play of organized interests in the making...
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...Example Project 2 An Ethnography project needs to have the following sections: Discussion Methodology Conclusion Introduction Results Can you label the following sections from an ethnography project and put them in the most logical order. Read the project again and think of the following questions: 1. What is the project about? 2. Why did the student chose this topic for her project? 3. How did she collect information for her project? What methodology did she use? 4. What conclusions does she make from her research? 5. How many different sections are there in the project? 6. Which is the biggest section? 7. In what way is the ‘discussion section’ different from the ‘results section’? Section 1 _____________________________ |Firstly, I was surprised that none of the English people that I asked care about the second-hand nature of the products in the charity | |shops, which doesn’t confirm my own anticipation. In general, People go to charity shops for alternative choices and have a bargain. They| |would regard charity shops as a place of unique and unusual things .It may be the case that UK is such a developed country that people | |usually live a resourceful environment. They seldom need to worry about lacking of supplies. Psychologically, whether it’s new or old | |becomes not so important. What they are more conscious about is the quality and style of the products rather than the primary nature of | |it. Therefore, charity...
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...5(2): 93-98 (2011) A Study of Elderly Living in Old Age Home and Within Family Set-up in Jammu Aruna Dubey*, Seema Bhasin**, Neelima Gupta* and Neeraj Sharma* * P.G. Department of Home Science, Govt. College for Women, Parade, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India ** Directorate of Distance Education, University of Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir, India KEYWORDS Elderly. Old Age Home. Family. Modernization. Urbanization. Life Expectancy ABSTRACT The last century has witnessed a rapid increase in the population of the elderly people in the developed and industrialized countries. This phenomenon is not restricted to the western world only, but many countries such as ours are now feeling the impact of this transaction. This situation could be attributed to a combination of factors such as increase in age, longevity and decreased death rates due to advancement in the field of medicine, improvement of life expectancy at birth, and enhancement in the average span of life. India ranks 4th in terms of absolute size of elderly population .The country is not adequately equipped to look after their special health needs and the changing traditional value system. A feeling is now growing among the aged persons that the attitude of the younger generation towards them is not as desired. In the above context, a study was conducted to understand the feeling of the elderly residing in the old age homes and within the family setup in Jammu. The sample of elderly women was selected using the “Purposive...
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...Elderly as a Vulnerable Population According To the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (2002), vulnerability is the Ability to "Be Easily Physically, Emotionally, or mentally hurt, Influenced or attacked." “As one of the faster growing segments of the population, over 70 million American citizens will be considered elderly by 2030 (Centers for the Disease Control and Prevention , 2007).” The United States Census Bureau states that, the Population greater Than 65 years old is growing at a rapid pace and by the year 2050 will duplicate and will increase from 12 to 20 percent of the population. This same percentage will be considered vulnerable population. Currently 40 million of people in the United States are 65 years or older, according to the Census Bureau these numbers will be expected to double by 2050, longevity will increased and this will bring a new number of common diseases which, will make this group more vulnerable. At Any Given Time, anyone can become vulnerable, the composition of the population has changed demographically and the elderly population has increased in recent years because of the development of the science and technology, but with this increment of the elderly population the vulnerability increases as well, due to some factors that this vulnerable population is exposed to, such as increase of the needs, physical and mental limitations, and lack of financial resources. Chronic illnesses increase vulnerability in elderly patients because...
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