Aging Case Studies Samples For Students

The organization I volunteered with is Whitman Senior Living Community (Whitman slc) in Washington Pullman. From its website, the mission statement of this organization is: “To offer retirement and assisted living options with compassionate care in a professionally managed, carefully designed retirement community” (Whitmanslc.com, 2014). In our service learning experience we socialized and provided manicures to senior citizens. I found the service learning experience not to relate to my career field since I am majoring in Finance since it involved humanitarian work. I made several observations from my experience and these include:
- That the institution had many senior ...

with numbness in both feet.

With numbness in both feet.

Normal aging process symptoms
Numbness of both feet in an obese 75 year old male could be attributed to several causes inclusive of the normal aging process. Some are peripheral neuropathy; monnueropathy; diabetic neuropathy; spinal stenosis; slipped disk and peripheral vascular disease. With regards to aging and unassociated with any other disease process numbness in both legs at age 75 accompanied by obesity could signal nerve damage linked to poor circulation in the extremities (Digiovanna, 2000).
Blood vessels and heart muscles tend to age with age. This means that valves, nerves responsible ...

Question#1

Nutrition also known as aliment or nourishment, is the stipulation, to organisms and cells, of the materials essential (in food form) to support life. Most common health complications can be curbed or combated with a healthy diet. The diet of an organism is determined by the palatability of foods with regard to what it eats. In this study I am going to let you know how nutrients need to change throughout the life cycle: during the infancy and early child hood, and adolescent and adult hood respectively.
Requirements for micronutrients and macronutrients are advanced on a per–kilogram base during ...

Luke Flatt is an elderly married man who had a previous history of aspirating some peanut husks when he was young. he used to smoke but quit 10 years ago, 5 years before he started having shortness of breath initially on exertion which has now worsened to dyspnoea on mild exertion. he also has chronic productive cough which is painful.
the above history is does not indicate a neoplasm. although he has a prolonged history of smoking, which has been associated with lung cancer, he could be suffering from Chronic Obstructive Airway disease which also has a history of prolonged smoking as a ...

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESMENT

Mental Status and orientation: Mr. BR knows his name; when and where he was born, time of the day and could read a clock. He even recalls his parents,’ children and grand children birth days. Politics did not interest him, but he quoted scripture in support of his personal philosophy.

Changes in self image due to aging and retirement: Mr. BR displays an interesting self image claiming that he is as old as God and young as the Holy Spirit. As such, he did not contemplate on age since it was simply a parenthesis of life itself. He said that he ...

The aging process occurs during a person’s lifespan. Nobody can escape this process and it happens to everyone. Aging is associated with maturation, growth, and discovery (Cohen et al., 2015). Many abilities of human beings peak before the age of 30, but there are other abilities that continue to grow and develop throughout the life of a person. Most people who are over the age of 65 are healthy, fully independent, and happy while others start experiencing signs of deterioration. These changes are normal and not harmful. The hair thins and start turning gray and skins thins and ...

Solving Medicare crisis

Medicare a communal insurance program offers health insurance coverage to people aged 65 years and above, people who meet a special criterion, permanently disabled people and individuals who have a congenital physical disability. The United States government administers the Medicare program. Medicare covers over to 40 million elderly and disabled people. Over the past few decades the program has helped, the program has helped countless retirees and disabled people stay health thus saving countless lives. This paper provides an in-depth discussion about the crisis facing the Medicare health insurance program.

“Is Medicare in a state of crisis?”

Over the last few decades, the Medicare health insurance program has been ...

Pain: State in which the individual experiences and communicates the presence of severe discomfort or an uncomfortable feeling.

Related factors: Pain resulting from musculoskeletal disorder; in this case, osteoarthritis; immobility

Features: Verbal communication of pain descriptors, level 8-9 pain reported by patient

Evidence: Mrs. Hardy experiences great knee pain when climbing stairs, a symptom associated with her osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis cannot be cured, but pain can be controlled.

The primary client-centred goal for Mrs. Hardy is pain management (Bijlsma, Berenbaum and Lafeber, 2011). Expected measurable outcome is that Mrs. Hardy will experience relief of pain as evidenced by Mrs. Hardy’s ...

Betsy Case Study

Betsy Case Study (4)
1. Body Composition
Aging is known to be accompanied by many body composition changes. Some changes will happen no matter what preventative steps are taken but all can be delayed. Some of the changes commonly seen are decreased muscle mass, decreased muscle strength, and increased body fat. All of these problems can be counteracted with resistance exercise and eating enough protein (Little & Phillips, 2009). A good diet including enough protein and some exercise won’t make you stay physically the way you were at 50, nothing can do that, but these two steps ...

Introduction

Occupational therapy focuses on increasing participation in a client’s daily activities. It involves the identification of environmental barriers that limit the customer’s ability to perform his or her daily activities and eliminating them. This is done by modifying the tasks, educating and teaching the skills to the client to enhance his or her daily activities. More emphasis is placed on the needs and goals of the client.
Young@Heart is a film about a chorus composed of senior citizens. They sing contemporary songs as well as pop and classic rock songs. Eighty is the average age of ...

Abstract

Prostate cancer is characterized by carcinoma of a gland in the male reproductive system and it typically develops in men over the age of 65. There is an assortment of treatment options in managing prostate cancer including: chemotherapy, hormone rehabilitation, surgical removal, brachytherapy, and external beam radiation therapy (Clinical Journal of Nursing). In external beam radiation therapy, it is essential for urologist to obtain consistency in the position of the prostate from the planning period before treatment to the initiation of radiotherapy to attain superior results. This study examines the efficiency of bladder filling and rectum emptying protocols and ...

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The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) offers a suitable model for implementing health education for seniors with osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a condition in which the bones wear out gradually with age and a small fracture develops which limits the physical and physiological functionalities of the affected individual. The illness is common in seniors because of the gradual decrease in the body’s ability to replace the worn out bone tissues. The bone formation process involves a ‘wear and replace’ methodology (Moylan & Binder, 2007). However, at old age, the replacement of the tissues cannot adequately fill in for the worn out material, and the ...

Describing the Current Situation, Major Issues in the Case

Information technology has been integrated in health centers in improving patients’ safety and condition. In the recent times, nursing and pharmacy fraternity has employed advanced technological strategies in ensuring operations in health institutions are running smoothly. According to Langley Mason Health (LMH), nursing and pharmacy employees are considering an information technology that could be implemented to help patients’ safety and treatment in the health institution. Marilyn Moore, the chief information officer, acknowledges the importance of such improvement from the aging pumps into smart IV pumps. On the contrary, there are various views within the institution that have resulted into ...

After analysing the details of Robert Reid from the case study, it is evident that some of the his risk factors for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and Hypertension include the fact that he is male, old age, has a family history of CHD and he is African-American. The other factors that predispose him to CHD and hypertension that he can control include obesity, long periods of physical inactivity, unhealthy eating habits and the low levels of High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) and high levels of Low density Lipoproteins (LDL) (Pedersen et al. p.1383). Complications that could result from the latter ...

Pathophysiology

One of the most important parts of achieving the goal of being able to meet the patient’s entire healthcare (i.e. nursing) needs is to ensure that the underlying disease’s pathophysiology is well understood by all the stakeholder groups. These groups, in this case, would include the medical and healthcare practitioners, patients, and their respective family members. It would be a lot easier to instruct a patient to have a patient undergo a prescribed healthcare routine once he understands the nature of his condition, why each procedure is being done, and how they collectively contribute to the end-goal ...

Essay Assignment

Essay Assignment

Abstract

In this paper, the aspect of disease development is focused in five sections. A critical review of various health conditions attempts to demystify some contingencies that are attributable to the disease process. This approach becomes integral in establishing causal explanations for various health derangements. It covers the aspects of bio scientific research used to create strategies that help in mitigating disease occurrence. The outcomes of this paper are relevant in the subject of managing diseases in human populations across the world.
Q1.
Dementia is a mental disorder that begets memory impairment and personality changes (Flicker, 1999). Alzheimer’ ...

Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Pathophysdiology

The following paper is interested in the effects of hyperglycemia on geriatric diabetics patients with chronic kidney disease, In doing so, it reflects three distinct disease entities. They are hyperglycemia, which serves as the dominant variable; geriatric diabetes and chronic kidney failure. Consequently, the pathophysiology of these three entities will be addressed separately.

Hyperglycemia

When hyperglycemia occurs, it represents a medical emergency. However, the extent to which blood sugar is elevated can be directly related to underlying disease conditions. These may include kidney failure, infections and systemic disease. While disease processes may be obvious, this ...

Disruptive Business Models

Disruptive innovation model, which explains why the world’s largest companies fail with the advent of new technologies, was named one of the most important for modern business. The author of this concept, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who wrote the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (originally published in 1997), led Thinkers50 rating of the most notable business thinkers in 2011 and 2013 (Thinkers50, 2013). According to Christensen’s model, at the time the new technology occurs in the market, it is still very flawed, and by most of the ...

Introduction

Strategic management plays a vital role in the development of every organization as it provides the opportunity to the business to expand in the future. The strategic management process is also referred as the science of experimenting and formulating the long term and short term plans for the business including the initiatives with the purpose to optimize the objectives of the organization. The process is important as it is linked with the mission and vision statement of the organization/company. There is a need to supervise and amend/edit the strategies of a corporation with the analysis and demand of external ...

Abercrombie & Fitch was established in 1982 as a sporting and excursion brand, and later expanded into sport clothing to become "The Greatest Sporting Goods Store in the World" in 1939; however it went bankrupt in 1977. In 1978 the brand was bought by Oshman's Sporting Goods and then bought by The Limited Inc. in 1988. The company has shift the attention from sport clothes and accessories to high-end casual clothes targeted at young consumers promoted via "provocative and sexually explicit marketing campaigns". The company has opened several sub-brands, notably Abercrombie Kids in 1998 and Hollister Co in 2000 (aimed ...

- Why did Coors's competitive position in the U.S. brewing industry deteriorate between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s?

Sales of Coors’s beer declined for the first time in two decades in 1975 by 4%. But the sales performance of the company was quite impressive from the beginning mainly because of quality and geographic advantage. In 1873, Adolph Coors, Sr. started to sell beer in Colorado. In 1933, four years after the prohibition was lifted, the sales volume was 90,000 barrels. Year by year compounded annual sales growth of the company was 11.2% from 1933 to 1974. Exhibit 1 summarizes the position of Coors compared to its competitors.
Coors had several strategic and operational disadvantages ...

ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND HRM

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report provides an analysis of the case on Autumn Leaves Aged Care Inc. The researcher uses Organizational-level diagnosis model to identify issues and provide recommendations. The paper includes analysis of PEST and Porter’s Five forces on the aged care industry. The paper presents case summary followed by a thorough discussion evaluation of three tools of Organisational-level diagnosis model known as Inputs, Design Components and Outputs.

INTRODUCTION

Indian Ocean Developments (IOD) was known as a traditional organization with a strong reputation for organizational stability and time-bound results. The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Ced Pearce, identified opportunity to enter into the ...

Introduction

The case study by Rebecca Henderson and Cate Reavis, entitled What’s Driving Porsche? Is an investigation into the current realities for the Porsche car company (Henderson and Reavis, 2009). Porsche has made some significant changes in recent years, ceding control and gaining control within certain parts of the automotive industry; the purpose of this report is to give a thorough discussion of the changes that are occurring in the automotive industry, particularly the luxury automotive industry, and examine how these events have affected Porsche as a company and as a brand. The transitory nature of the automotive industry branding tactics have ...

Abstract

In the movie Still Alice, Alice, a successful woman, after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease (AD) loses almost all she had. Alice’s case doesn’t typically fall under the traditional age bracket for the onset of Alzheimer’s because she is only 50. However, the symptoms she displays clearly fall under the earlier DSM-IV criteria of diagnosis. Under the new DSM-5 criteria, she would still be a fit case for Alzheimer’s because she has been experiencing a gradual decline in her autonomy. She loses control over her speech, mobility and motor functions until she becomes completely dependent on ...

Introduction

While on his way to Hiroshima, it was around 7:30 a.m. when Captain William Parsons inserted the detonator along with the explosive charge into the bomb. It was around 8:16 a.m. (Japanese time) when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima over Dr. Shima’s Clinic. The glowing fireball had a temperature of about 50,000 degrees. Soon after this attack, another major city of Japan was attacked. It was basically the idea of General Leslie Groves, General Farrel and Admiral Purnell to launch two atomic bombs on Japan; the first bomb would demonstrate power and the second would tell the Japanese ...

Business strategy and planning

Every firm sets strategies and plans for it to ensure they achieve their goals and the mission of the company. A case study describes the scenario of the company in attempt to strategize and plan for its future. In this, case the problem statement, analysis, possible solution and recommendations.

Description of the company

The ski resort industry is a community-based resort. The considerations show the trends in the industry. It is associated with the costs of equipment and the general effects of economic and tourism concerns. The management of the industry in snow sport shows that their participation was due to their participation as ...

Summary

Brazil was considered of the future superpowers during its formative years. It presented great opportunities for growth. The business environment favored investment that would see the nation develop to a great resourceful nation. However, due to economic, social and political setbacks, Brazil is categorized under the developing economies. The country’s population is too high to be controlled by the government. This has led to several problems such as unemployment, inadequate social amenities and poor infrastructure. The 2014 World Cup is aimed at helping rebuild the Brazilian economic status.

There are several problems facing the Brazilian population, which include the following

- The government gives little money to family planning organizations
...

Question A

The evolution of the BRICs shows the rise of the main emerging economies in the world. The countries involved are putting effort towards building a fair and reasonable global financial order and solving difficulties that may hinder their development. China has been the leading country in manufacturing factories. Brazil has a large raw material base. Russia produces large quantities of oil. BRICs held their third summit in April, 2013. Their main agenda were global economic and financial affairs and issues that would promote development and cooperation among the BRIC countries .
Companies ought to monitor their competitive position in the market ...

Strategic Planning Process Issues

Steve Cantwell, the external consultant hired by Mueller-O’Keefe Home. His task was to assist Mueller-O’Keefe in developing a long-term plan for the house, which would plan further capital development and consider the possibility of including new services. Steve Cantwell’s analysis of the situation and the method of evaluation is consistent with the strategic planning process. Thus, he spent significant amount of time analyzing external market environment and the internal situation in Mueller-O’Keefe. His suggestions were made with consideration of the organizational capabilities and the alternatives available in the market.

However, the process used by Cantwell lacks a ...

There are a lot of health complications that come about as an individual advances in age. As such, it is important to be keen on maters affecting the health of an elderly person. The major factors considered in this case are health and nutritional issues. As well known, nutrition plays a major role in the life of an individual and more so at the later years of life. This essay seeks to establish how the elderly can be assisted so as to deal with health issues related to iron balance in the body.

Helping the Elderly

Schaie and Willis (2002) present a situation concerning the ...

Company Overview

Robert Mondavi Corporation is one the leading innovative producers and marketers of high quality brands of wines particularly premium table wines. The company was founded in 1943 and typically operates in the United States but operates in more than 90 countries of the world. Robert Mondavi Corporation is headquartered in Napa, California. Some of the core brands of the company include Robert Mondavi Private Selection, Woodbridge, and Robert Mondavi Winery. Other smaller wineries from the company are Arrowood in Sonoma and Santa Maria. The company is also involved in partnerships with other winemakers. For instance, Robert Mondavi Corporation produces ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will describe the case of Mr. Henry Spirk. He is a a 72-year-old man who has recently broken his hip and does not have the ability to take care of himself. In addition, he was diagnosed diabetes, hypertension, and partial hearing loss. However, Mr. Spirk refuses to believe in his current condition and claims that he is able to take care of himself. I will describe the discharge planning and identify which obstacles prevent us from discharging Mr. Spirk without additional home care. I will identify which health conditions need to be addressed and discussed with the ...

A. Analyze the role of the nurse caring for Rose within the primary health care framework and identify some determinants of health for Rose

Before a health practitioner embarks on helping a patient, it is advisable that he or she identifiers determinants of health. In the case of Rose, the major determinants include the fact that Rose lives alone, in a big house and she is quite old (in her nineties). It is also a fact that she is frail, with her partial disability; osteoporosis. Another determinant is that she lives in a small region with limited infrastructure like transport including health facilities in ...