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This paper addresses bacterial meningitis in aged patients in terms of what it tells us of sensorineural deafness. According to the paper, inner ear damage in meningitis affects the eigth cranial nerve, particular cells and may affect the brain's hearing center as well. The paper concludes by suggesting this may be the result of meningitis's high sustained fever and pressure created by inflammation of the meningal lining.

From the Paper
"Bacterial (spinal) meningitis has received much recent attention as a disease of childhood responsible for a percentage of juvenile deafness due to varying damage inflicted on the 8th cranial nerve or the cochla. The disease's inflammation of the meninges as typically features a high, sustained fever can also produce blindness and a list of emotional and neurological effects. Bacterial meningitis tends to be discussed as a pediatric disease..."

Tags:sensorineural, deafness, aged are prone

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The paper chooses a particular aged care facility in Australia and evaluates its mission, vision and strategic plan in terms of the level of quality it delivers and the quality that is expected by its stakeholders. The paper begins by defining quality as best as it can, and then looks at six different areas for quality. These areas are environment, physical, medical management, psychosocial, finance and human rights.

From the Paper
"The objective of this document is choose a particular aged care facility in Australia and to evaluate its mission, vision and strategic plan in terms of the level of quality it delivers and the quality that is expected by its stakeholders. The document begins by defining quality as best as it can. In order to carry out this critical analysis the author will look at six different areas for quality. These areas are environment, physical, medical management, psychosocial, finance and human rights."

Tags:age, health, care

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This paper explains that, for at least a century in North America, the phenomenon of teen-aged pregnancy has been examined as social malady with its pathology in questions of low morality or education, sexual abuse, low self-esteem or other defects of the affected girl. The author points out that there is relatively little research on how a pregnancy may directly harm the teen-aged girl. The paper proposes a project of straightforward functionalism to gain possibly new insights into how this phenomenon originates and how it continues when North American girls mainly are well informed as to reproduction, birth control and the non-desirability of teen-aged pregnancy. The author underscores that some cultures regard teen-aged pregnancy as less negative than a much abhorred termination of pregnancy.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reflection on a Timeless Issue
Review of Literature
Theoretical Considerations
Methodology
Analysis
Ethical Considerations
Dissemination of Findings
Conclusion

From the Paper
"All persons to express interest in becoming participants in the project, or those merely wishing to ask about its nature and aims, will be assured verbally of the confidentiality of what they, or someone they know, may choose to contribute. When a person is contacted with a brief questionnaire a formal written guarantee of confidentiality will be provided that explains clearly the purposes of the research and its potential uses. The imperatives of confidentiality and explaining a sound agenda of research in terms of wanting to clarify why teenaged pregnancy occurs and attitudes towards it are obvious."

Tags:phenomenon testimony, oral history, induction qualitative

Abstract
The writer focuses this research on the fact that adult males between the ages of 18-35 in inner city areas of the United States appear to be at a greater risk for heart disease than their male counterparts in other areas of the country such as those living in areas bordering the cities such as suburban areas and rural communities. This paper investigates the multiple factors that influence the heart health and well-being of adult males aged 18-35 in low-income inner-city areas of the United States. This article further researches and explores stated health statistics and influencing social factors. Finally, the writer makes recommendations as to the alleviation of the heart disease in adult males aged 18-35.

From the Paper
"Heart disease is stated to have caused 3.4% of death in males ages 15-19, 3.6% in males ages 20-24; 7.9% in males ages 25-34; 15.2% in males ages 35-44. 3.2 male adults ages 15.24 per 100,000 population die each year from heart disease as compared to 2.1 percent for females. 9.6 percent of male adults ages 25-34 per 100,000 population die each year from heart disease as compared to 5.2% of females. Risk factors in heart disease are stated to include: age, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, high LDL cholesterol, family history of early heart disease, diabetes, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, apple-shaped body, high blood homocysteine, atherosclerosis. The estimated age-adjusted prevalence of angina in women age 20 and older were 3.5 percent for non-Hispanic white women, 4.7 percent for non-Hispanic black women and 2.2 percent for Mexican-American women. Rates for men in these three groups were 4.5, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively. Among American adults age 20 and older, the estimated age-adjusted prevalence of coronary heart disease for non-Hispanic whites is 8.9 percent for men and 5.4 percent for women; for non-Hispanic blacks, 7.4 percent for men and 7.5 percent for women; and for Mexican-Americans, 5.6 percent for men and 4.3 percent for women."

Tags:health, risk, blood, pressure, cholesterol

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Individuals grieve in their own way and in their own time. In examining the journey loss and the grieving of that loss in one family, this paper applies the theory to a real life situation of the death of an aged parent and the implications for adult children, themselves past middle age and experiencing their own aging journey. Their experiences are related to theoretical and personal understandings of loss and grief.

From the Paper
"There is a range of reasons given for why the community struggles towards a psychology of loss. There is a lack of overall integration in the area of loss research - the authors cite evidence in this field of material that is disjointed, disorganized and descriptive. This is further supported what has been described as "a plethora of "self help" books which deal with grief. The latter these authors maintain, further diminishes the importance of loss as a scientific area of study (Miller & Omarzu, 1998). These authors maintain that because there is no clear psychology of loss there is an urgent need for what does exist to go into pre-existing or new theoretical models."

Tags:disenfranchised, healthmental, primary, secondary, somatised, theory

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This paper analyzes the risk factors for heart disease among the middle-aged population, especially men and suggests ways to combat these stereotypical trends.

From the Paper
"According to physician Julian Whitaker, M.D., around the age of forty the human body begins to undergo profound changes that are primarily due to a decrease in cellular energy. Inside the cells are small structures called mitochondria, which convert fuel into energy. The aging process begins when the mitochondria lose their ability to function properly. The energy shortage affects every part of the human body including heart, brain, kidneys, and immune system. In addition to the loss of energy, or perhaps as a result of it, as middle age is reached, people gain an average of about ten pounds of fat per decade. According to Dr. Ronald Klatz, in men between the ages of forty and eighty, the Lean Body Mass declines at a rate of about 5 percent per decade (while in women by only about 2.5 percent). With more fat in the body, energy production is lowered, and Human Growth Hormone is also lowered, which in turn leads to additional loss of lean tissue. The entire situation places an increased strain on the heart."

Tags:fat, weight, lean, tissue, smoking, cholesterol, diet

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This paper will describe a situation in which this author added demonstrable benefit to a project he was involved in, by generating new ideas and creating solution to a problem. The author relates that he was appointed as the project manager of a coffee fundraiser for the Hong Kong Society for the Aged, a volunteer position and the appointment was short notice. The author relates that he knew a lot of work was required but he was very proud to get such big responsibility and he posits that by demonstrating effective leadership and organizational skills, he managed to avoid a major problem and also to implement the most successful fundraiser to date.

From the Paper
"This paper will describe a situation in which I added demonstrable benefit to a project I was involved in, by generating new ideas and creating solution to a problem. I was appointed as the project manager of a coffee fundraiser for the Hong Kong Society for the Aged. It was a volunteer position and my appointment was short notice. I knew a lot of work was required but I was very proud to get such big responsibility. By demonstrating effective leadership and organizational skills, I managed to avoid a major problem and also to implement the most successful fundraiser to date."

Tags:work, leadership, creativity

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This paper provides a summary of an interview with a middle-aged American woman. It looks at different theories by Piaget, Erikson and Freud to examine the woman's behavior and social awareness.

From the Paper
"In examining these issues, I decided to take the interview a step further and see if I could support these conclusions with an understanding of Erik Erikson's psychosocial studies. According to Erikson, each individual passes through eight developmental stages ("psychosocial stages"). Each stage is characterized by a different psychological "crisis," which must be resolved by the individual before the individual can move on to the next stage. If the person copes with a particular crisis in a maladaptive manner, the outcome will be more struggles with that issue later in life. To Erikson, the sequence of the stages are set by nature. It is within the set limits that nurture works its ways."

Tags:erikson, freud, piaget

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The paper describes how lung cancer is a disease that is largely related to lifestyle or smoking, as well as to certain determinants of health. The paper examines how risk factors for lung cancer and the determinants of health are strongly linked, and the association between income and social status and mortality seems to exist because of risk factors. The overwhelming determinant of health at work in all the studies discussed in this paper is low educational attainment, which very usually means low income and social status.

Tags:determinants, risk, plan

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This report discusses the issue of asthma and how it affects children, also defining asthma and giving some notion of its signs and symptoms. The report also looks at issues in diagnosis and effective treatment of asthma. The report looks at alternative techniques such as using psychology and education of self-management to children with asthma, in terms of their relative effectiveness. The paper then moves onto concluding remarks, including positing ideas and avenues for future
research.

Paper Outline:
Issue
Diagnosis and Treatment
Alternative Therapies
Summary
Recommendations
Bibliography

From the Paper
"In terms of appropriate psychological interventions for asthma sufferers, it is important for healthcare workers, including nurses, to realize that people with asthma may be more likely than other individuals to have psychological problems such as anxiety disorder and depression. This comes from the anxiety of having to live with unpredictable asthma attacks, and in many cases the depression that comes with having an illness that is uncertain in terms of definition and causal motivation."

Tags:airway, inhaler, physician, bronchodilator