...Choosing between a Skilled Nursing Facility Or Home Health Care for your Elderly Loved Ones Kelly M. Skawienski University of Phoenix While a facility, like a nursing home, is a good option for extreme care of the elderly, most cases show that living in their own homes, surrounded by familiar people and things can promote better health and wellness. While working in the health care field I have worked in both fields; a Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Care. Some important points to consider in choosing which option is best for you or your loved one are the cost; how much is it going to cost for each of these two options, services provided; what help will you be receiving for your money, flexibility and freedom of accessibility; having friends and family visit and being able to travel, go for a walk, and last is the comfort of the client or patient would they do better in a sterile environment or in their own home. The cost of a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) as most already know can be expensive. The average cost is more than $50,000.00 a year and climbing, and it will vary widely depending on where you live (Long Term Care, 2012). Your employee health insurance does not pay for a SNF, so about one third of the residents pay from their own funds. This can eat away at their savings very quickly, most people run out of funds after six months. Five percent of people have purchased long term care insurance which will cover the cost of a SNF (Long...
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...Is the patriot act worth it to give up our individual freedoms for national safety? The patriot act was a response from September 11 that gave the government access to people's personal files or documents if they associate it with terrorism. The patriot act breaks the first and fourth amendments, but it has foiled many terrorist attacks in the years after September 11. Is preventing terrorist attacks more important than our constitutional rights. The patriot act is unconstitutional and wastes money on intelligence instead of helping the people of the U.S. The patriot act breaks the first and fourth amendments and our individual freedoms. The first amendment says that the people have the right of free speech, free religion, and freedom of the...
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...Values Shalonda Cotton Cross-Cultural Perspectives Allan Mooney 3/29/2015 Even the United States and Europe is just a flight across the Atlantic, Europeans and Americans are very different, but have some similarities also. Europeans and Americans both agree and disagree what we deem are basic values are. There is a view that supports opposing views of the world and foreign relations obviously stands in need of clarification. The Pew Research Centre reported a very wide public, single opinion poll, taken of public attitudes in several different countries. It shows that America's old faithful image has slipped a bit. The Pew study found that many Europeans support “the US-led war on terror” and about 60% called Iraq a serious threats. Many countries love and admire America culture because of our science, technology and new modern way of thinking. In both the Marshall Fund and Pew studies, there were a few differences in attitudes towards our armed forces, neither was there much difference in a positive opinion to use force abroad. The Marshall Study points out that institutions such as NATO of the United Nations is just as strong in America as Europe. Majorities in almost every country said the world would be less safe if there were a competing superpower, based off the Pew Study. Some Americans say they favor a firm intelligent leadership from the European Union, while some Europeans say they want the same thing from the U.S. According...
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...The development of Information Communication Technology has created new ethical dilemmas due to the out-of-date moral, legal, and social boundaries. These boundaries can be represented by rules and legislation, laws and human nature. The expansion of technology has created a new era of office work. The majority of offices around the world are now filled with newly available technological advances; from personal computers to large network servers. Over the last decade there has been an increase among employers to monitor the actions and performance of their employees. This is due to worries about; quality of work, productivity employee theft or misuse of company property One of the main ethical issues of the workplace is employee privacy and surveillance. Argument raised is: is it ethical to monitor employees whilst they are in the workplace? Is there privacy for employees and should employees expect Privacy at workplace? Technology has offered various options to help people maintain privacy depending on their situation. At the same time, technology has made it almost impossible for anyone to have privacy. There are devices and programs that can help you get privacy but they can also be used to invade it. Modern society has too many incidences and events that include invasion of privacy, including on national and international levels. Is it possible to ever maintain a level of privacy when you are on the computer, your cellphone, or even in your own home due to technology advancements...
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...I don’t think that these films are genuinely independent, at least not in the way movies made by Lee and Cassavetes were. Hollywood got an extreme makeover in the 60s and 70s due to movie censorship and Hays Code Ending and being replace by a new G to X rating system. This new system allowed directors explore dark and twisted themes that were outside of societal norms and constraints, and the films that came out of this “were the epitome of creative and popular success and lead to the first increase in movie attendance since the 1940s” (Getlein ). And a decade later, directors in the 1980s once again find Hollywood to be an environment not conducive to the dark, twisted, and ultimately personal films they wanted to make, so they abandoned action...
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...“Education empowers the oppressed to discover alternatives to situations which have been taken as natural, necessary and unchangeable” (Flanagan, 2005 p. 186). Paul Freire’s contribution to overcoming this problem was through reversing the depository position of students, encouraging the creativity of the student to be in accordance with their lived experiences, promoting freedom, the praxis of thought and action and dialogue that incorporates charity, faith and hope (Gadotti, 1994). William Brickman greatly contributed the field of comparative and international education. He is also the founder of Comparative Education Society. Through wide research, travels and participation in other cultures William Brickman encouraged the joint cooperation of scholars, exchange of documents and ideas in the acknowledgement of diversity in education. He promoted the cooperation of organizations, intervisitation of educators in a bid to improve the school systems and the inclusion of other disciplines in the interpretation of educational development from different cultural contexts. Brickman’s pursuit for academic freedom saw the establishment...
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...FATEMEH BAHRAMI*, MOHAMMAD AMIRI*, ESLAM PARANDVAR* *Hakim Sabzevari University, Assistant Professor at Department of Educational Psychology, Sabzevar, Iran. **Hakim Sabzevari University, Department of Educational Psychology, Sabzevar, Iran. ***Hakim Sabzevari University, Department of Educational Psychology, Sabzevar, Iran. Pinnacle Research Journals http://www.prj.co.in 46 ABSTRACT The present study was conducted in order to examine the relationship between the personality traits and the decision making styles of the managers of Hakim Sabzevari University. The statistical population includes all the managers of Hakim Sabzevari University who are in-charge of different positions. The number of managers is seventy people, 60 subjects based on Morgan Table were selected using simple random sampling method. The instruments used in the present study are Scott and Bruce General Decision Making Styles Questionnaire (1995) and NEO personality traits questionnaire. In order to analyze the data, description and inferential statistics including Pearson, step by step regression, t test, unidirectional ANOVA and Tokay follow-up test were used. The results indicated that: the marital and single status did not affect the decision making styles of the manager and education and experience only affected the avoidance decision making styles. The extroversion and consciousness personality traits had a positive significant relationship with the rational decision making...
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...Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y/Millennials Born 1925-1945 50 million GWAEA 6% (28) Born 1946-1964 80 million GWAEA 70% (341) Born 1965-1980 46 million GWAEA 22% (110) Born 1981-2006 76 million GWAEA 2% (9) Traditionalists (61+) Influences Great Characteristics Patriotic Depression Roaring 20’s WWI and II Korean War GI Bill loyal “waste not want not” Faith in institutions— one company career Military influenced top down approach KEY WORD: LOYAL Traditionalists (61+) Value Logic and Discipline Like Change to Build a Legacy Don’t Want Baby Boomers (42-60) Influences Suburbia TV Characteristics Idealistic Watergate Protests, Human Rights Movement Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll Vietnam, COMPETITIVE Question Authority KEY WORD: Optimist Baby Boomers (42-60) “Me” Generation Title, Recognition Money, Want to Build A Stellar Career Generation X (26-41) Influences Sesame Characteristics Eclectic Resourceful Self-reliant Distrustful Street, MTV Game Boy PC Divorce Rate Tripled Latch Key Children of Institutions Highly Adaptive to Change & Technology KEY WORD: Skepticism Generation X (26-41) Possibly Most Misunderstood Generation Need a...
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...PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE 1303 FALL SEMESTER 2014 16-WEEK SEMESTER 1. Instructor Information: Professor: Jake Costin Office: Rio Grande Campus Phone: 512.461.4151 E-mail: jcostin@austincc.edu Office Hrs: 8:40 to 9:40 (after class or by appointment) 2. Course Description: BUSG 1303 PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE (3-3-0). Personal and business financial dynamics including monetary and credit theory, cash inventory, capital management, and consumer and government finance with emphasis on the time value of money. Skills: R ( ) Course Type: W 3. Required Textbooks/Materials: “Principles of Managerial Finance” Brief 6th Edition by Lawrence J. Gitman 4. Instructional Methodology: Instruction will be based on lectures and the required reading from the required text. All tests will be given in the classroom during class times. 5. Course Rationale: The course will provide an overview of managerial finance with focus on important concepts such as: the time value of money, risk and return, interest rates, and stock and bond valuations. Additionally, consideration will be given to both long and short term investment and financial decisions. 6. Course Objectives: Understand the following: a. Financial Statement Analysis b. Cash Flow and Financial Planning c. Time Value of Money d. Risk and Return e. Interest Rates, Stock and Bond Valuations f. Capital Budgeting g. Cost of Capital ...
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...Personal Responsibility Jessica Carter GEN/200 February 16, 2012 Troy Thompson Personal Responsibility | | | | | | | | | Did you ever stop and think that everything you are or ever ill be is completely up to you? Just imagine. You are where you are because of who you are, and everything that exists in your life exists because of you, because of your behavior, words and actions. You have the freedom of choice and because you have chosen each and every outcome of your life, you are completely responsible for all of your happiness and sadness, your successes and failures, your present and future. That thought is one of the biggest and most important ideas that can ever occur to you. The acceptance of person responsibility is what separates the adult from the child; it’s the great leap forward into maturity. Responsibility is the hallmark of the fully integrated, fully functioning human being. “Responsibility expresses the capability to feel and be responsible, not only ex-post (i.e., once...
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...Part 1: Expenditures Approach to Calculating GDP Nominal GDP- the market value of all final goods and services from the nation in a given period of time. Table 1. Gross Domestic Product or nominal GDP (in Billions of dollars) | | 2012 | 2013 | | | III quarter | IV quarter | I quarter | II quarter | 1 | Gross domestic product | 16,356.0 | 16,420.3 | 16,535.3 | 16,661.0 | 2 | Personal consumption expenditures | 11,193.6 | 11,285.5 | 11,379.2 | 11,427.1 | 3 | Gross private domestic investment | 2,493.3 | 2,499.9 | 2,555.1 | 2,621.0 | 4 | Net exports of goods and services | -524.4 | -515.8 | -523.1 | -509.0 | 5 | Government consumption expenditures and gross investment | 3,193.5 | 3,150.7 | 3,124.1 | 3,121.9 | Table 2. Real Gross Domestic Product (in Billions of chained dollars) Real Gross Domestic Product (real GDP) is a macroeconomic measure of the value of economic output adjusted for price changes. | | 2012 | 2013 | | | III quarter | IV quarter | I quarter | II quarter | 1 | Gross domestic product | 15,534.0 | 15,539.6 | 15,583.9 | 15,679.7 | 2 | Personal consumption expenditures | 10,541.0 | 10,584.8 | 10,644.0 | 10,691.9 | 3 | Gross private domestic investment | 2,456.5 | 2,441.8 | 2,470.1 | 2,524.9 | 4 | Net exports of goods and services | -436.5 | -412.1 | -422.3 | -424.4 | 5 | Government consumption expenditures and gross investment | 2,988.8 | 2,938.8 | 2,907.4 | 2,904.5 | During the inflation the nominal GDP is higher than real...
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...Woman started wearing perms in their hair heavy and thick lipstick. This is when make-up became heavy in woman culture . Make up even gave teen females away for them to look much older then what they really are. Late 60’s The hippies influence on fashion really started showing .Hippie started wearing their long natural hair; pony tails weren’t for girl but boys too and headbands was very vital in their wardrobe. People looked for vintage clothing especially females, they searched through thrift stores and looked second hand clothes and dresses. Hippie also showed a big creative side in the fashion when wore and made their own clothes, people loved tie dying clothes in bright colors and hallucinogenic rainbows, hand-strung beads, and sometimes bare feet. flowers were common to see in their hair, which the name Flower Child came to play. After the hippie movement it could be anywhere you wanted it to be....
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...The above is what Barack Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial from 2006 is about. Through the use of many of the same rhetorical instruments that Martin Luther King used before him, Obama establishes not only what Martin Luther King meant to America but also what he means to Obama on a personal level. In the following, I will make a rhetorical analysis and interpretation of the speech. The speech can be described as being an occasion speech which means that Obama’s aim is for him to entertain his audience at the memorial, by interpreting his vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The speaker is Barack Obama who is an African-American senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate in the United States. The audience for his speech is the participating to the national memorial, but primarily the speech is meant for the African-American inhabitants. He entertains his audience by reminding them of the great things that King has accomplished for the African-Americans in the United States of America: “I will tell them that because he did these things, they live today with the freedom God intended, their citizenship unquestioned, their dreams unbounded” (p. 2, l. 63-64). Obama’s main claim of his speech is for Martin Luther King to be remembered for his great accomplishments. The ground for his claim is that King was a good man, which Obama inter alia expresses by the use of a quote from the bible: “In the Book of Micah, Chapter...
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...only a few streets away from their close relatives and partners- visit regularly- especially if they have daughters. -MASON (1993)- study of Greater Manchester found that over 90% of the sample had given or received financial help from relatives and almost 60% shared a household with an adult relative other than their parents at some point in their lives. The term MODIFIED EXTENDED FAMILY is used to show how the nuclear family and individuals still have ties to extended kin. EVIDENCE THAT THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IS NOT DEAD -MCGLONE – found that unemployment, poverty, community care for the elderly and increasing numbers of young people living at home longer, means that there is a need to family mutual support systems. –nuclear families feel a strong sense of obligation towards extended family in times of family crises. -FINCH –found that in working class are areas, the extended family is still common. Her study pf the East End of London found that adults often live only a few streets away from their close relatives and partners- visit regularly- especially if they have daughters. -MASON (1993)- study of Greater Manchester found that over 90% of the sample had given or received financial help from relatives and almost 60% shared a household with an adult relative other than their parents at some point in their lives. The term MODIFIED EXTENDED FAMILY is used to show how the...
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...1. Describe the culture at Best Buy Traditionally corporate culture in Best Buy embraced long hours and personal sacrifice. (Hellriegel, D., & Slocum, J. W., Jr., 2011). Employees were often recognized not based on their actual performance, but on how much time they spend at their work. This lead to overstressing among employees, fear of judgement if they did have to leave the work to take care of some personal problems. Employees would often choose to be employed part-time because they knew that this is the only way that can get flexibility necessary to take care of their families and personal life. Employees were left overworked physically, overstressed emotionally because of the constant work vs. personal life conflict that a lot of them had to face, and as well because of the pressure to perform at the level higher than their capacity. Best Buy is not the only company that was witnessing this trend in their corporate culture. Unfortunately as the economic situation in the country worsened, and the competition increased, a lot of companies had to strive to meet the demands of the business. Every company was trying and is trying to produce the goods or services faster than the others and at the lower cost. This enormous stress is falling on the workforce. As the result, “the number of people in the United States who say they are overworked has been rising from 28% in 2001 to 44% in 2009”, according to the Families and Work Institute (Hellriegel, D., & Slocum, J. W., Jr....
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