Essays on Elderlies

Geriatrics

Geriatrics Occupational therapy helps many patients across their lifespan so that they can participate in different things that they want to be involved with. My interest in occupational therapy is distinct from others, as I want to focus with Geriatrics, so as to assist the elderlies and help them achieve the optimum health. I have an interest in the area of Geriatrics in Occupational Therapy due to various reasons. This discussion presents why I have the passion and interest in fulfilling my goals within this area. As a student, I understand that there are still many things that I ...

The paper deals with comparing and contrasting health care reform data for the two states of Minnesota and Arkansas.

Lack of Health Insurance According to the last data recorded, Minnesota had 7 percent of its total population without any private health insurance, neither their employer nor the government has it for them (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). This percentage has decreased only by 0.9% in last one decade. For Arkansas, it is the state that ranks 35 when it comes to having health insurance for the state’s population. 13.9% Arkansas population lacks health insurance, privately, through the government or the employer (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). Lacking health insurance privately put people in having difficulties accessing the ...

Members of the elderly population experience a lot of negative changes in the body. The negative changes that they encounter are often related to aging and the degeneration-related physiologic changes associated with it, this was supported by a set of guidelines on malnutrition authored by Mauldin & Kelley. In this paper, the author discusses the different tenets of malnutrition, including the causes, of malnutrition among the elderly, drawing data and evidences from previously published studies. It is not atypical for members of the allied medical fields, especially nurses, to encounter cases of elderlies experiencing malnourishment. In a study published in ...