...Optimal care of the patient with cancer incorporates effective physical and psychological care.There are currently several clinical practice guidelines available documenting evidence-based information and treatment recommendations for the physical care of people with cancer, many of which are also available in consumer versions. Some of these treatment guidelines include chapters devoted to psychosocial care. People with cancer suffer significant emotional morbidity. In addition to the distress, fear and grief consequent upon diagnosis, up to 30% experience clinically significant anxiety disorders and prevalence rates for depression range from 20%-35%.These disorders have a major impact on the person’s functioning, and that of their family, as well as posing a major occupational and economic burden. In addition, such disorders adversely impact on capacity to cope with disease burden, and may reduce patient adherence to recommended treatments. People with cancer continue to request more information in order to better understand their cancer, its impact on them and their family, and the treatment options available. Patients are only able to participate as they wish in clinical decision-making if they have access to appropriate information. For people from rural areas, and those from particular cultural groups, access to such information and services represents a major unmet need. In an era of evidence-based medical practice, health professionals desire accurate information ...
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...obliged. They choose to please themselves by letting an institutions or long-term facilities to take care of their loved ones. In the Philippines where I was born and grew up having too many children is acceptable, the mothers as well as the fathers believe that having many children will give them a chance not to end up staying in a interpersonal facilities or homecare when they get old. They think that their children will take good care of them once they get older. But in reality having many children will not guarantee the parents that when they get older their children will take care of them. Where will we go when we get old? This is one of the questions that some old people ask themselves when their kids start to leave them to start their own lives. In United States very few children will be taking of their parents when they grow old. There are a lot of reasons why they do not take care of their parents when they grow old and one of it is health condition. “The most widespread condition affecting those 65 and older is coronary heart disease, followed by stroke, cancer, pneumonia and the flu. Accidents, especially falls that result in hip fractures, are also unfortunately common in the elderly (Levy S., 2013, p. 19)”. In reality the state and federal governments should pay attention on what they can give and provide to their senior citizens. They should focus in the area in which the institutions and long-term care facilities are meeting their requirements in taking care of their...
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...Long-term care can have a different definition for each individual. Before taking this course my understanding of Long-Term Care was a community that the elderly would live in when not being able to take care of themself or not have a caretaker. However, having been able to obtain more knowledge on the subject, Long-Term Care can vary from Adult Day Care to Assisted Living. There are different options to choose from when having to choose a Long-Term Care facility for you loved one. An Adult Day Care is similar to a child day care. It is a facility where one can drop off a loved one while they are at work and can then pick them up at the end of the day. These facilities offer the amenities to socialize with one another and do activities that can strengthen their minds and increase mobility on their motor skills. During my college years, I had to participate in one of these facilities for an assignment and it was a great experience. Members would play dominoes, sew, and do plenty of arts of crafts. Another form of Long-Term Care is an Assisted Living Facility, this consist of a facility that can be mostly associated with an apartment complex. It can offer services as a regular living community with medical attention for those who require it. When comfortable with your living settings and are able to be fully independent, residents are able to upgrade their living arrangements. Only those who are able to independent with their ADL’s are able to living in this type of facility...
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...international (M) and W Inc (W) decided to enter a long term litigation, due to a patent rights violation. M being the demandant and W the respondent. Not enough information was provided in relation to the charges or the patent. To properly understand the events a chronological descripcion of the litigation is to be provided. Events: Problems to be addressed Is necessary to understand the proper and logical accounting literature to address the matter previously presented. The case it self provides a series of matters to be attends, these matters have to be address in accordance to the General Accepted Accounting Principles. Matters to be discussed: * The liability to be recorded by M financial statements, for the year-end December 31, 2007 * What adjustments should be done if any, for the year-ended December 31, 2009, financial statements; should the amount be recognized as a 2009 event or as a prior period adjustment. * When should M record a deduction of the previously recorded loss contingency Solution To understand the topic to be discussed is necessary to understand its basic components. FASB recognizes that companies are often involved in situations where uncertainty exists about whether an obligation will arise and an amount will be disbursed to fulfill or settle the obligation. This is known as a Contingency in the Accounting world. What is a contingency? ASC 450-10-20 defines it as “An existing condition, situation, or set of circumstances involving...
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...from short term memory loss since the day Lucy and her father had an accident but Henry didn’t see this as a threat since he has already fell for Lucy, since then Henry would always do everything to make Lucy fall in love with him all over again each and every day. Reaction: In the movie 50 first dates Lucy suffered from anterograde amnesia according to my research it is when a person loses the capacity to form new memories (called Goldfield Syndrome in the movie) from an accident. This cause to damage her temporal lobe especially her hippocampal region and to forget a part of her memory of anything between the day of the accident and the present. Because she is incapable of converting short-term memories (can be called "working memory" which refers to our ability to hold on to information we are currently thinking about etc.) into long-term memories (in which data can be stored for long period of time). Lucy’s memories gained or experience prior to the accident is intact including people’s names, past events, where she lives, etc. In reality people who suffer from anterograde amnesia have trouble forming short-term memories after 10 minutes or so, making it impossible for Lucy to remember things from earlier in the day. In the movie, she is able to remember everything from the day up until she goes to sleep. Once she wakes up, she forgets everything that happened the previous day everything she learned experienced after is new. Despite the fact of Lucy’s condition Henry believed...
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...tested in a repeated measures experiment. They were shown two sheets of visual images, one of which was organised into categories, while the other one was uncategorised. Recall was significantly higher in the categorised condition. This supports the view that organised materials can provides cues, even when they do not appear obvious. The study suggests that cues are also available for visual material, not just verbal material. Introduction Memory is a very complex and interesting area of psychology. It can take several different forms and is made up of a variety of different cognitive and social processes. As memory is a regularly occurring phenomenon which an individual will use every day, it is important to carry out research into the different aspects of memory to gain a better understanding of it and to be able to manage and control it. There has been a lot of interest in improving memory through organisation. Miller (1956) showed that one way of improving recall from short-term memory is by ‘chunking’ the information as it comes in. This is the process of breaking a large object, such as a phone number down into several smaller sections to make it easier to remember. There has been more work carried out into recall from long-term memory, where items have recently been presented and/or learned. Mandler (1967, cited in Gross, 1996) used a pack of 52 cards with a word printed on its back and asked participants to organise them into seven columns. Half...
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...Continuum of Care- Long-term Care Long-term care has and is continuing to become an important part of the continuum of care. Years ago Long-term care (LTC) was considered only to be for the elderly, but as time passes it is for anybody and everybody who needs it. Barton (2006) stated, “Regardless of the length of time (i.e., from weeks to years), long-term care is an array of services provided in a range of settings to individuals who have lost some capacity for independence due to injury, chronic illness, or condition” (p. 367). According to Barton (2006), it states that the services long-term care provides help the consumer with basic needs and shows the individuals how to do daily living activities, along with therapy and being able to manage their conditions. Today long-term care is serving consumers of all ages in home, community, and institutional settings (Barton, 2006). Long-term care has contributed to the continuum of care tremendously because it is offering an array of services for consumers in different places and not just focusing on one specific population. In the last few years long-term care has become more of a need for more than 12million people in the United States, and out of these 12 million people, five million of them are nearly disabled (Barton, 2006). Barton (2006) stated, “a significant proportion of people needing long-term care-nearly half –is younger than 65: 40 percent are working age adults and about 3 percent are children younger than age 18”...
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...housing, and most important who will provide care for the aging family members. Since entering into the new millennium, The United States has been challenged with the meeting of many demands that our aging population requires. For example, the increase there has been in the health costs, financing and delivery of health care for the older population, and the worries about health care quality is a serious challenge for health care. Health care is researched, and this is needed to help the aging population benefit from the advances in clinical, biomedical, and behavioral research. Aging adults face the challenges of chronic diseases that contributes to the diminishment of life, disability, and the increase that is seen with the cost of long-term health care. The number of older individuals is expected to increase always over time because somewhere someone is aging, and this will affect the penalties for public health, delivery systems, health care financing, informal care giving, and pension systems. Furthermore, other Countries around the world have been known to pay much more attention to the aging population, and an extensive number of these individuals and growing amount of chronic disease will place tension on resources in countries where simple public health concerns are yet to be tackled fully (S. Jacobzone, 2000). Baby boomers have to face challenges and changes that he or she will endure as they age and enter a new stage in life. New issues will arise for...
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...the coast and a woman caught his eye. He did not go up to her because he assumed it was a local woman. The next day, he went to the café again and saw her there again, but this time he decides to go up to the woman. The woman’s name is Lucy. They get along very well and there is an instant connection between them. They agree to meet at the café the next day for breakfast. Henry goes to the café as they agreed and after Lucy walks in the café, he follows her, but Lucy does not know him. Henry is confused and Lucy gets paranoid. Sue, the restaurant owner, takes Henry outside and explains to him that Lucy is “special.” She explains to Henry that Lucy suffered an accident about a year ago and suffered severe brain damage and she lost her short-term memory. She only remembers events up until the day before the...
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...ACC230 Lucent Technologies 2. Evaluate the asset, debt, and equity structure of Lucent technologies, as well as trends and changes found on the common size balance sheet. Assets are current assets plus long-term assets, current assets were about 49.42% and fixed assets equal about 10%.Which has been mostly financed by long-term liabilities of 96% and short-term liabilities of 31%, this equals to 127% financing do to negative equity on previous year losses. In 2004 assets decreased to at about 48.52%, the company sold some of the fixed assets equaling about 13.5%. There was also an increase in inventory from 4% in 2003 to 4.8% in 2004. There was an increase in long-term liability of about 9% but there was also a decrease in short-term liability of about 9.5% which helps offsets the increase in the long-term liabilities. There was improvement in equity of about 9% for the year. 3. What concerns would investors and creditors have based on only this information? According to the balance sheet the company is not financially sound with mostly long-term financing 82% and short-term of about 26% a total of about 108% this is still high, Lucent inventory has also increased this is also something that needs to be kept in mind if the demand for the product starts to decline and there’s to much inventory that’s not moving what will be the carrying cost and can the company with stand those costs, and as an investor or creditor I am sure they definitely don’t want...
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...Memory is defined as learning that has persisted over time that is processed as information and stored to be recalled at a later time. However, do we know how our memories are stored? Memory researchers and psychologist have debated whether we as humans store memories in a single, unitary system or multiple system pertaining to different types of memories. The multiple memory system theory states that memory is stored into different types of memory or storage. Those being short-term vs. long-term, procedural vs. declarative, semantic vs. episodic, and so on. Single unitary system or states that memory is unified by short term and long-term memory through a process that stores the memory together in the hippocampus. The debate that researcher and psychologist have been arguing about is whether which model best fits into how we actually store memory. Arguments can be made for both sides in how humans store there memories. Vouchers of the...
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...Outline and evaluate the multi-store model (12) | A01Atkinson and Shiffrin argued that there are three memory stores: 1. sensory store 2. short-term store 3. long-term storeAccording to the theory information from the environment is initially received by the sensory stores. (There is a sensory store for each sense.) Some information in the sensory stores is attended to and processed further by the short-term store. In turn some information processed in the short-term store is transferred to the long-term store through rehearsal or verbally repeating it. The more something is rehearsed the stronger the memory trace in the long-term memory. The main emphasis of this model is on the structure of memory on rehearsal | A02Case studies support to the multi-store modelGlanzer and Cunitz found that when rehearsal is prevented, the recency effect disappears.There is evidence that encoding is different in short term and long-term memory. For example Baddeley There are huge differences in the duration of information in the short term and long term memory (Peterson & Peterson). (Bahrick et al.)oversimplified. (reductionist) | Outline and evaluate the working memory model (12) | Episodic buffer was added by Baddeley in 2000 | Active process: PET scans Amnesiac case studies Shallice & Warrington (1974) Baddeley (1986) found that patients with damage to their frontal lobe had problems concentrating suggesting damage to the central executive (researcher biased) | Outline...
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...Evaluate the evidence for the separation of declarative and non-declarative memory Long term memory is a place where we store all of the memories that for long period of time. Once the memory has been stored in the long term memory, it can last up from a few minutes to the rest of your life. The amount of how much a person can save in the long-term memory is infinite. There are two different kinds of memories, one of them is called declarative memory. Declarative memory is the ability to for example remember what you ate for dinner yesterday, or recall a typical event; in other words, it is a memory of general knowledge, data, factual information and events. Declarative memory (also known as implicit memory) has two types: sematic and episodic...
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...Memory Carmela Briggs Psychology111 9/24/13 Memory Long-Term Memory is what stores events, skills, and things that we need for functioning in everyday life. It is how we remember our names and the names of our friends, family, and the people we are often in close contact with. It is vital to remember skills such as how to brush our teeth, get dressed, cook food, ride a bike, drive a car, and learn in our educational system. Without it, we would need assistance just to get through everyday life. On the other hand, short-term memory only briefly stores information. When dealing with short term memory, you may hear something one moment and within a few seconds not be able to recall what you just heard. To go back a day later and try to recall that information may be challenging because the information is no longer there. In knowing this when it comes to studying its best to do it in a repetitive manner. The more you read and look over something, the better chance you have of getting it stored in your long-term memory. So when it is necessary to retrieve the information it is there. Looking over some material only once may serve no purpose when test time comes. The information may be placed in your short- term memory and may be gone moments after reading. So, for best results when trying to retain information at a later date it is always best to do it with the long term memory in mind. Attention Giving focused attention to what is being read helps to make better sense of...
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...She seemed very curious about how he spends a typical day, and about what he had eaten for breakfast, but his efforts to summon the information from his mind were fruitless. He could easily answer her questions regarding his childhood and early adult years, but the indefinite expanse of time since then was bereft of memories. In fact, from moment to moment Henry feels almost as though he has just awakened from a deep sleep, with the fleeting remnants of a dream always just beyond his grasp. Each experience, dull or dramatic, evaporates from his memory within a few dozen heartbeats and leaves no trace. For over fifty years Henry has lived with anterograde amnesia, a form of profound memory loss which prevents new events from reaching his long-term memory. As a result his only memories are those he possessed prior to his amnesia, and the small window of moments immediately preceding the present. The amnesia frequently depicted in fiction is a very rare retrograde variety known as dissociative fugue, where one’s identity and all memories prior to the pivotal event are compromised. In contrast, anterograde amnesia does not deprive the sufferer of their identity, their past, or their skills; it merely prevents new memories from forming. As a consequence one’s final memories are frozen in perpetuity, often accompanied by a constant sensation that one has just awoken from an “unconscious” state which filled the intervening time. Henry’s handicap is the unintended result of experimental...
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