Aging and Adulthood Shireen Farsi CCMH/504 May 30‚ 2013 Raymond Carraway Aging and Adulthood The aging process involves many changes. These changes can be difficult for some. Changes include physical and cognitive development including primary and secondary aging‚ intelligence and memory‚ health and biological factors‚ relationships‚ personality‚ and transition factors (grief and loss issues‚ and retirement). I will address the above using scholarly peer reviewed journals. A study was conducted
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The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers Carel D. Peterson San Francisco State University The Silver Tsunami: The Challenges in Developing an Adequately Trained Nursing Force to Meet the Rising Tide of Elderly Baby Boomers In what is described as a silver tsunami‚ the baby boomers (boomers) are turning sixty-five years old at an alarming rate (Heise‚ et al.‚ 2012). Beginning in 2010 when the first wave
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Elderly Income Support Jacquelyn T. Come University of Louisville Abstract Elder income will affect everyone who has the good fortune to live long enough to grow old. Being elderly is an open status because people are elderly for only part of their lives. The elderly that are at the highest risk of being poor or disadvantaged fall into categories of people who are at highest risk of being poor throughout the life course‚ those that fall below the poverty level during their lifetime. (Sociology
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cRunning head: ELDER INTERVIEW Elder Interview Jorge Fernandez Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing NURS 3313 – Care of the Healthy Aging Adult Elder Interview General Appearance Normal Signs of Aging Mrs. L is a 64 year old female Caucasian who lives in West Texas. Her hair is naturally gray‚ but she dyes it‚ and appears thin and evenly distributed on her head. There are no signs of baldness but her hair is thinning. Tabloski (2006) states “the hair of a older person
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nursing research (2nd ed.‚ pp. 46-59). Philadelphia: Lippincott‚ Williams‚ & Wilkins. Dillaway‚ H.‚ & Byrnes‚ M. (2009). Reconsidering successful aging: a call for renewed and expanded academic critiques and conceptualizations. Journal of Applied Gerontology‚ 28(6)‚ 702-722. doi:10.1177/0733464809333882. Fisher‚ B. J. (1992). Successful aging and life satisfaction: A pilot study for conceptual clarification. Journal of Aging Studies. 6(2)‚ 191-202. Flood‚ M. (2002). Successful aging: a concept analysis
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Additional studies should make use of both quantitative and qualitative methods. It would be interesting to compare the results from an open-ended interview or case study with those from a laboratory study. By utilizing mixed-methods‚ the field of gerontology is exposed to a more comprehensive view of
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Table of Contents Introduction Personal Factors • • • Personality Personal Control Age Environmental Factors • • • Physical health Living Arrangements Social Support and Social Networks Conclusion References Introduction The satisfaction or happiness of the human race has always been a central theme in the humanities. Life satisfaction is conceptualized as one of the cognitive components of subjective well being‚ and refers to the global judgments people make about the quality
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RANGER COLLEGE Semester one Re-Entrance Exam Part 1 Questions pertaining to Gerontology: 1. The nurse cautions that the most frequent response to elder abuse by the abused older adult is a. anger c. notification of authorities b. physical retaliation d. nothing at all 2. The nurse would anticipate that a person with a hemorrhagic CVA to the left hemisphere would exhibit a. language disturbances c. inappropriate affect b. poor impulse control d. confabulation 3. The nurse
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References: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer‚ P. (1994). Diverse cultural beliefs and practices about death and dying in the elderly. Gerontology & Geriatrics Education ‚ 15 (1)‚ 101-116.
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