...INTRODUCTION “Assisted living facilities—nonmedical, community-based, residential settings that provide housing, food service, one or more personal services, and watchful over sight to frail elders and other persons with physical and mental disabilities”(Ball, Whittington, Perkins, Patterson, Hollingsworth, King & Combs, 200, p. 304) . As the baby boomers age there are more and more Americans living is assisted living environments. There is plenty of research of how the families of the clients like the environment that their families live, but not a great deal on how the actual client feels about the environment. The key factor to this is that many of them no longer have the ability to communicate logically, and coherently with researchers/care...
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...Assignment 1: Compare and Contrast Effective and Ineffective Leaders 8 Unit 6 Assignment 1: Create a Long-Term Financial Plan 10 Unit 7 Assignment 1: Calculating Credit Scores 11 Unit 8 Assignment 1: Writing a Prospective Schedule 12 Unit 9 Assignment 1: Using Social Media for Job Searches 14 Unit 10 Assignment 1: Putting the Finishing Touches on Your ePortfolio 15 Laboratory Assignments 17 Unit 1 Lab 1: Personal Persistence Narrative 17 Unit 1 Lab 2: Grit Test 21 Unit 2 Lab 1: Optimism 24 Unit 2 Lab 2: Self-Control 25 Unit 3 Lab 1: Curiosity in Modern Times 27 Unit 3 Lab 2: Integrity Matters 28 Unit 4 Lab 1: Create a Research Summary Memorandum 29 Unit 5 Lab 1: Resolving Systemic Conflict: Scenario Analysis 31 Unit 6 Lab 1: Time Value of Money 32 Unit 6 Lab 2: Budget Exercise 33 Unit 7 Lab 1: Calculating House Cost 35 Unit 7 Lab 2: Delayed Gratification 37 Unit 8 Lab 1: Initiative Reflection 39 Unit 8 Lab 2: Time Management Reflection 40 Unit 9 Lab 1: Creating a Professional Profile 41 Unit 10 Lab 1: Creating a Personal and Professional Development Plan 43 Graded Assignments Unit 1 Assignment 1: It Takes Courage Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes Apply tools for overcoming obstacles and tools of connection to various business and personal scenarios. Evaluate choices for overcoming obstacles given several sample case studies. Assignment Requirements Answer the...
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...memory and other weakening of intellectual functions of daily living which is associated with mostly people living aged 65 years and above (Burns 2009). It is a gradual damage of neurological activities which is epitomised by brain cell death over time (DeFina et al., 2013)(National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2013). There are several forms of dementia which include Alzheimer’s disease, which is the most common type, constituting over 60-70% of the cases (World Health Organisation, 2015). Then other cases include vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, front temporal...
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...Local Policy Analysis CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I certify that the attached paper, which was produced for the class identified above, is original work and has not previously been submitted by me or by anyone else for any current or previous class or course. I further declare that I have cited all sources from which I used language, ideas, and information, whether quoted verbatim or assistance of any kind, which I received while producing this paper, has been acknowledge in the references section. This paper includes no trademarked material, logos, or images from the Internet, which I do not have written permission to include. I further agree that my name typed on the line below is intended to have, and shall have the name validity as my handwritten signature. As of January 1, 2013 there was a minimum wage increase of 15 cents from $7.70 to $7.85 in the state of Ohio and 19 other states, this affected Ohio’s local government. Ohio’s local government will be responsible to enforce this new policy to employers. The department of labor wage and hour division is also responsible in ensuring this process is used by properly. The minimum wage increase policy was developed as a cost of living increase. Ohio will be affected by this new policy it will be more money back into the communities and give the minimum wage employees some spending power. The policy that has affected the local government is the minimum wage increase, which begins on Tuesday...
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...Demographic Paper Wanda Strickland HCS 490 11-28-11 Dr. Cindy Perkins Demographic Paper American men and women do to medical science and technologies are living much longer. This paper will discuss the demographics of senior citizens’ living longer than they ever had in the United States. This paper will gather data about the senior citizens’ population demographics. It will gather information and try to discuss what type of impact the senior citizens’ have on the healthcare market. This paper will also discuss the issues with the elderly immigrants and what type of effects they have on our healthcare market. This paper will also discuss challenges to this population, such as increases in health care costs, increases in prescription drug costs. This paper will also discuss How can the individual patient, the community, and society as a whole address these challenges and how a chronic disease wellness program may affect the costs for this demographic. The Effect That the Elderly Have on Healthcare According to this committee (National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, 2009) reports has triggered analysis on claims that an aging population is the major cause of spending growth on Medicare and other social insurance programs. They also goes to say that those that would like to undermine the current Social Security and Medicare programs can be expected to use the Trustee's reports' data on solvency as a rationale for privatizing, or otherwise dismantling...
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...ENV/100 Week One Individual Assignment Environmental Fundamentals Paper Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss the fundamental principles of environment science. In your paper, answer the following questions: • How do you define environmental science? Environmental science is the study of how humans interact with the environment. Environmental science is the study of the interaction of the living and non-living components of the environment with special emphasis on the impact of humans on these components. Environmental science is a very dynamic area of research and involves many different fields of study. (Hartwick College, 2013) These other study areas include biology, ecology, geology, chemistry, physic, engineering, math, computer science and other sciences that work together to keep the world moving forward. • How does the relationship between science and technology affect environmental problems and solutions in today's society? Science and technology have been and will be ways to study the environment and the issues that are occurring including climate change, pollution and the reduction in natural resources. Over the past thirty years scientist have studied air pollution and how it is affect the environment which has led to new technology to monitor air quality. Also science and technology have developed new engines and manufacturing plants that reduce pollution back into the environment. Automobiles produce lower volumes of carbon dioxide then...
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...Running head: CONTINUUM OF CARE PAPER Continuum of Care Paper Patricia Alexander University of Phoenix Health Care Delivery in the U.S. 310 Michelle Crakes May 25, 2009 Continuum of Care Paper Long-Term Care Before we can discuss the roles of long-term care, we must define the meaning of long-term care. The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the role long-term care plays in providing services and how long-term care contributes or lacks contribution to the overall management of health care resources. In addition to the above-mentioned topics, the transitioning of patients from one level of care to another level of care in the health care continuum will be discussed. What is Long-Term Care? What is long-term care? Long-term care is a variety of services that includes medical and non-medical care to people who have a chronic illness or disability. Long-term care helps meet health or personal needs. Most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing, bathing, and using the bathroom. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living or in nursing homes. It is important to remember that you may need long-term care at any age according to (Medicare, 2009). Description of Services The purpose of long-term is to provide the most appropriate service in the least restrictive setting possible. Long-term care programs offer institutional services...
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...Caring For Future; Reforming Care and Support By [Author Name] [Institute Name] [Date] 1. Introduction Health law and policy making in the region of UK have been identified in a structural way with the functionalities provided by National Health Service (NHS) since the year 1948. There has been an access point of free access and being highlighted in a positive manner, clinical ideas and formulations have emerged as a greater tendency of force. There have been multiple changes implied and influences to the NHS structure over the course of time (Beresford, 2013). Since the 1970s however, the policy has been strictly related with the management of ever increasing requirement of resources and how to take into consideration multiple distinctions in population demands, availability of services and their qualitative comprehension across the region (Beresford, 2013). An array amount of measurements have been implied to target the distinctions including, in the most recent times, an enhanced implication of mechanisms that are market induced. Staffing requirements in the NHS have always considered it difficult to carry out a prediction and the accounts of professional staffing mechanisms have always signified between a surplus and shortage. Such alterations have occurred in a substantial manner against a background of rising expenses, along with NHS providing a spending amount of national income share in a doubled manner since 1948 (Beresford, 2013). The conventional focus...
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...Hemp can be used for so many different things that are better that and more environmentally friendly than what we are using today, and this displays why the cultivation of hemp should be legalized. Background I bought a backpack last year which was made almost entirely of hemp, which led me to become more curious about this plant which is most often associated with a drug. I started to do more research about this plant to become informed of its many uses and found many interesting facts about the utility of hemp in many aspects of modern day life. The only problem with this plant is that it is not legal because it is related to the drug marijuana, but what people don’t know that they are two completely different plants. There are many different uses for hemp; the two largest being paper and clothing. We are cutting down so many trees in our forests to make paper with when we could just grow hemp that grows in almost any condition and up to four times faster than our current resources, meaning that we would be able to supply more paper while using less resources in a more cost efficient and eco-friendly way. If we were able to stop deforestation, the leading cause of global climate change, by implementing the use of hemp, more trees and vegetation would be allowed to grow, in turn releasing an increased amount of oxygen into the atmosphere, creating a healthier environment for all. Clothing is also very important because the cloth that hemp makes is ten times...
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...Research Proposal on HIV Posted at: February 9, 2010 under: Sample Research Proposals by admin @ 7:04 am Problem Twenty years ago, the subject of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which has been found to be the cause of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), would not have been the topic of a major and serious worldwide catastrophe. Twenty years ago, people were not phased by the effects that would be caused by this ever so populating disease, and no one would have ever realized that this disease would not be curable or helped without expensive medicine. Like a simple exponential growth equation, the AIDS virus has increased victim numbers by about forty million all over the world. AIDS has also shown that it is not discriminating; it has infected all races and all heritages. The AIDS crisis extends far beyond its death toll, because more than seventy percent of the thirty-six million people with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. Last year alone, the disease killed 1.5 million people in Africa. One third of these victims are between the ages of ten and twenty-four. The disease has been described as a development crisis; it is profoundly disrupting the economic and social bases of families and entire nations at a rate of infection at 16,000 per day. Without immediate action, AIDS will surpass the effect of the Black Plague that killed forty million people in the late fourteenth century. It is estimated that only ten percent of the death that this disease...
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...BACKGROUND The research paper addresses the diagnosis of aneuploidy during the first trimester using Nuchal Translucency. The study was done in the fetal medicine unit in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa. It included a total of 428 patients who were screened between July 2003 and July 2005. Those patients were chosen using a set of criteria that the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) has established. The patients had a mean age of 30 years. Of all the patients, 59 were screened positive and the remaining 356 were screened negative. 24 of those that screened positive had Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) performed. CVS is an invasive prenatal test that takes a sample of the chorionic villi to asses for chromosomal defects4. Therefore,...
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...NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE DYNAMICS OF EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT FOR BLACKS, HISPANICS, AND WHITES Stephen V. Cameron James J. Heckman Working Paper 7249 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7249 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 1999 We thank Stephanie Aaronson, Joseph Altonji, Shubaum Chauduri, Terri Devine, Tom Kane, and Christopher Taber for valuable comments. We thank Marvin Kosters for valuable comments and for making this paper possible. The first draft of this paper was presented at an NBER conference on higher education at Cambridge, MA in April 1992. It was also presented at a Public Economics workshop at the University of Chicago (May 1992), sponsored by J. Hotz, at the Institute of Research on Poverty (Wisconsin), June 1997, and at Cornell University, April 1997. This work was supported by the American Bar Foundation and by NSF-SBR-93-21-048, NSF 97-09-893, and by NICHD:R01-HD32058-01A1; NICHD:R01-34598-03; NIH:R01-HD34958-01; NIH:R01-HD32058-03, and by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Spencer Foundations. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of the National Bureau of Economic Research. © 1999 by Stephen V. Cameron and James J. Heckman. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks...
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...outweigh the cost of it” Abel, Jaison R., and Richard Deitz. "Do The Benefits Of College Still Outweigh The Costs?." Current Issues In Economics & Finance 20.3 (2014): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Mar. 2016. People who graduated with a college degree still questions whether college was a good investment for them. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” addresses how students who graduated with a college degree are still unemployed and in debt. Furthermore, students have paid more to attend college and earning less upon graduation. This academic journal compares both the pros and cons of attending college. It contains graphs and illustrations that contribute more data about increasing tuition and how it affects your decision about whether to attend college. “The total costs to attend a 4-year college outweighs some people’s home value.” I thought this quote summarizes the academic journal very briefly. “Do the Benefits of College Still Outweigh the Costs?” is a scholarly source and an academic journal. The data in it is really reliable for my research paper. It contains graphs and illustrations which could be used to make conclusions. This academic journal is more biased towards the people who believe that the benefits of college do not outweigh the costs. I could potentially use this source to support my thesis more efficiently. I could use this to provide more backing to my body paragraphs. Alger, Vicki E. "Why College Costs So Darn Much...
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...statement to the title page of my paper, I certify that I have not cheated or plagiarized in the process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper, I understand the possible consequences of the act/s, which could include expulsion from Indiana Wesleyan University. Thesis The health care industry each years spends millions in medication errors that could be prevented. By implementing a data entry system that would allow access by medical professionals and pharmacies to collaborate and reduce the chance of medication errors dramatically. The data systems are pricy but when compared to the cost of medication errors and loss of lives it saves most medical establishments money. Annotated Bibliography The need for data entry systems to reduce medical errors Rinda, J. (2012). integration helps clinicians reduce medication errors. Health Management Technology , 33 (10), 12-13. With the risks of medication errors endangering lives, the technology has been gearing towards linking smart infusion pumps with health information platforms. Electronic health records have already been developed and are currently being used in some areas. This can lead to reductions in health care costs and increase in workflow. The medication errors could result in 400,000 preventable injuries each year. 1.5 million errors occur in the U.S. each year, resulting in $77 billion in cost annually. The iv integration system...
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...employment or the change in profitability and employment is insignificant. This is a hot topic for policy makers in both developed and developing countries as a raise in minimum wage affects the economy in terms of economic growth, standards of living for the poor, survival of businesses and employment. A lot of research and literature has shown that a hike in minimum wages do not particularly affect the developed nations but the same hikes in developing countries can cause damage to firms depending on the size of the firms and their profitability. This paper attempts to show that the garments sector in Bangladesh (Ready made Garments Industry) faces the same dilemma. Since the Savar tragedy in late 2013 where a garment factory, Rana Plaza, collapsed which killed more than 1,100 people and injured and more than 2,500 people injured, garment workers and civil society demanded a raise of minimum wage from 3000 tk to 5,300 tk every month. This tragedy and similar events in developing countries lead us to think how businesses especially in the developing countries where wage rates and productivity are low can operate if minimum wage is suddenly increased threefold and why workers in those countries work under horrible conditions. This paper will also compare the situation of Bangladesh to other manufacturing countries and state why Bangladesh is different by looking at existing literature on the topic of effects of employment and profitability in firms due to rise in minimum wage. ...
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