time after request. Some people who need medical care are ignored by the staff. Geriatrics I need to explain what geriatric care is all about. It is about the caring of the elderly people in the society. Many elderly people are faced with many various problems. Therefore they need care. Some problems which the elderly people may face include the following: • They may have illnesses of various natures • They may have problems that arise from side effects of medication they get • They may feel
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Interviewing Patricia How do the responses given by the individuals you interviewed compare or contrast with the research you discovered? The late age adult who was interviewed was aged 66 years young, Patricia’s words exactly. The interview with Patricia highlighted life not death. Aging is a natural part of life, which comes with problems but even more joy. For some these thoughts are scary, but Patricia has reached life satisfaction and is grateful to have reached the ripe young age of 66. She
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blind me to the fact that there are some people who just don’t understand the concepts of a computer and the internet. The "computer generation" is not just for one generation. The elderly don't have to sit back and watch while the younger generations have fun banking, playing, shopping and socializing online. But many elderly people shy away from computers out of fear, wondering "What if I break it?" or "What if someone steals all my personal information?" The concern over the growing “digital divide”
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word neglect has many definitions; to pay no attention or too little attention to, to be remiss in the care or treatment of, to omit through indifference or carelessness, to fail to carry out or perform, to fail to take or use. The neglect of the elderly is an inexcusable and often unpunished form of abuse. What makes an elder adult so vulnerable? Tennessee law defines vulnerable adults as; “a person eighteen (18) years of age or older who because of mental or physical dysfunctioning or advanced
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are numerous aspects of specialties on hand such as nannies, disabled, senior care. The services provided by Freedom Home Care are Senior Care, Child Care, Nursing, Ashby Memory Method, and Link to Life. Senior care has providers that assist the elderly with everyday activities. Child Care provides part-time and full-time nannies to care for infants and young children. They do meal preparation and homework for
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Late in life, elderly adults begin to experience changes in their communications skills. Physical disability often means they must move to the nursing home, too. Part of the onset of disability is the deterioration of hearing and vision. Therefore, it becomes necessary for nursing home staff and visitors to learn to communicate compassionately and effectively with elderly and disabled residents. Some elderly adults may not have exercised communication skills recently due to diminished contact with
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the permition of my facilitator to look around and have a little time conversation to elderly people. As the exploration and observation going trough I found out that communicating with the elderly people is a difficult process and a challenge to the caregiver that may impact to implement the system of care. Communication is one of the barrier that results in difficulty and stress between caregivers and elderly patient. This may vary in different ways such as cultures, languages and lose of some
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One will discuss how the concerns that we all may be very easily find ourselves in on a daily basis. One will look into more specific areas where ethics and computers intertwine, using cell phones to track pedestrians and home monitoring for the elderly. The other will hit on the risk and rewards of cloud computing and the ethics behind law firms and their move into the 21st century. Ethics surrounding computer technology are currently an ever evolving conversation. As technology advance so must
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Death, an inescapable cycle, death is something no one can escape, it follows like night does day. In Ezekiel J. Emanuel’s article about his hope to die at the age of 75, he argues that you have lived a full life by that age, experienced that which is necessary to have lived a full life, but also that you are no longer of any crucial use to society. He claims that “living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than
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geriatric patient is usually different from standard medical evaluation of other patients. For the elderly patients, especially those that are really old. General assessment like the physical and history-taking might not be done at the same time because patient becomes tired easily. The elderly usually have multiple health issues which requires the use of many drugs which is also called polypharmacy. The elderly are best evaluated using a comprehensive geriatric assessment, which includes evaluation of
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