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The Effects Of Polypharmacy On The Aging Adult
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The incidence of falls and other adverse effects significantly increases with more than 4 drugs a day. Some indications of therapeutic youth are not as clear in the elderly, for example, the use of digoxin in heart failure in aging is risky...

Injuries In Elderly
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injuries, and that more than 60% of them were age 75 and older.(5) Nearly $20 billion dollars of direct medical costs are associated with fatal and non-fatal falls.(6) Furthermore, the direct costs of injurious falls have been found to be g...

Telemarketing Scams Against The Elderly: Seniors Ability To Differentiate A Legitimate Investment Versus A Scam
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It begins by describing the problem and reviewing risk factors. It then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and describes the conditions under which they are...

Elder Abuse
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Elderly abuse is said to be the negligence of patients or harassing them. Harassment can be sexual, behavioral, psychological and emotional. This report further puts light on the causes and reasons of the elderly abuse on nursing homes and ...

Sleeping Patterns In Elderly
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Sleeping Patterns in Hospitals and the Nursing Homes In the nursing homes and hospitals, sleeping patterns in the elderly for a long time remained unheeded, despite the more frequent complaints of poor sleep and increased consumption of hyp...

Falls Prevention
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Falls are a major health problem among older adults. In the United States one in three people aged 65 or more living in the community fall at least once a year. This proportion increases to one in two for those over 80 years. Worldwide, adu...

Nutrition Education
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Nutrition science is responsible for studying and maintaining the homeostasis of the organism at the molecular and macro-system, ensuring that all the physiological events is carried out properly, getting adequate health and preventing dise...