During my last placement on an Acute Stroke Ward. I observed a lot of patients that were suffering from lasting symptoms as a result of their stroke such a fatigue, memory loss, weakness as well as po…
Aging
Are nursing homes the best option for elderly loved ones? Nursing homes may offer a wonderful home for the ederly, but not every nursing home can. Every nursing home will be run differently in some ty…
Older adults are often perceived as vulnerable by societal stereotypes, mainly due to age-related changes that affect their independence, health, and functional ability (Hirst et al., 2015). However, …
The article I selected for my evaluation is "Very Frequent Physical Aggression and Vocalizations in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia" by Annelies E. Veldwijk-Rouwenhorst, Sytse U. Zuidema, Martin …
What: This thematic map shows the distribution of life expectancy per country around the world. When: The data being represented is from 2018. Where: One of the regions with the highest life expe…
There is an average of 6 million car crashes a day. That is roughly 16,438 per day. In 2018 it was recorded that nearly 7,700 adults (ages 65+) were killed in car crashes and that almost 250,000 were…
Young and older people have very different types of life. As we grow, we tend to limit the range of our activities that we can participate in, or we can no longer do them. On the opposite side, teena…
Do you ever miss "the good old days"? Do the memories of the days where the biggest worry you had was whether or not you would finish your physics homework ever creep up on you? Now, the looming of wh…
At the point everybody acquire various answers concerning Alzheimer's we commonly expect about individuals that are older. This is in light of the fact that this disease consistently happens proximal…