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- 2091: Nursing Homes and The Lutheran Home for the Aging
- ... The Lutheran Home for the Aging has a cat, iguana, several parakeets, and a Golden Retriever named Pawlet that s hare the home with the residents. There is also an Intergenerational Program that involves the Child Day Care facility located within the Home for the Aging. The child day care was built in 1991 and consists mainly of employees children, but is also open to the public when space is available. The children learn to benefit from the social interaction with the residents ... the services they provide. As in the case of the Lutheran Home for the Aging, the generated income from resident pay and contributions has been used in expansion of the Home, the building of the Child Day Care, and the coordination of special activities for the residents. The main concern in non - profit organization is the continuum of care that offers many options to the elderly residents of the facilities. ...
- 2092: Depression
- ... his wife could begin a clean life with another man. Differential Diagnosis Many physical disorders can be present with depressive illness. They include: hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Addison's disease, Cushing's disease, electrolyte disturbances, alcoholism, drug abuse, carcinoma and dietary deficiencies (B12, B1, and folic acid). Various drugs can cause depression. Psychological disorders that may mimic depression include adjustment reactions, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, and abnormal bereavement reactions. Panic disorder commonly co-exists with or pre- dates depression, (Andrade et al, 1994). Diagnosing and treating underlying physical causes must be attempted and ... key factors in the correct prognosis of the actual cause of a persons depression. Risk factors for depression: ·In Young Adults: ·Urban dwellers, ·Unemployment, ·Physical ill-health, ·Previous affective illness, ·Family history of depression, ·Childhood abuse/trauma, ·Loss of mother before age 11, ·Looking after several young children, ·No confidence, ·Bereavement. In Older People: ·Bereavement of a close figure in last six months, ·Loneliness (but not living alone), ·Lack of ...
- 2093: Josef Mengele
- ... esque look didn't define him as a "pure" Aryan. One of his most famous experiments was with eye color. Mengele or one of his assistants would inject dyes into the unanesthetized eye of a child, preferably a set of twins. The dyes often resulted in injury, sometimes complete blindness, not to mention excruciating pain. Another set of experiments were designed to create better equipment for German soldiers, better gear for ... a vacuum until his lungs ruptured." One can not help but wonder what kind of a person could ever consider doing things so horrible, much less carry them out. Who could ever kill an innocent child by injecting chloroform into their heart, causing the blood to coagulate and kill the child. Who could ever imagine sewing a set of twins together to try and make siamese twins? These acts just seem to be out of the human realm. Yet Josef Mengele did all of these ...
- 2094: Reye Syndrome
- ... infection. Two of the most common viral infections it precedes is influenza, “the flu”, and chicken pox. A now-familiar warning on bottles of aspirin, most notably Tylenol, is not to give Tylenol to a child who is recovering from the chicken pox, a fever, or any other viral infection. The link between aspirin and Reye's Syndrome and is not fully understood, but all reported cases of Reye's Syndrome include a child who has received aspirin before infection. Symptoms of Reye's Syndrome may often be mistook for a recurrence of the flu, or extreme exhaustion. These symptoms include vomiting, confusion, lack of coordination, distorted balance, irritability ... This includes monitoring the heart rate, giving intravenous fluid to prevent dehydration, and keeping fevers down. Depending upon the severity of the illness, the recovery periods will vary from case to case. The younger a child, the longer the recovery period, which can last anywhere from two weeks to three months. When a patient has contracted Reye's syndrome after having the chicken pox or influenza, as opposed to a ...
- 2095: Addicted To Love
- ... confesses that Isolde is unfaithful; then just as cruel, he is fooled into believing she is his. This repeated scenario of torture is by far the highest tragedy in the romance. The climax of the abuse is when Mark questions his own senses after the discovery of the couple copulating in the garden. Blinded by the violent inebriation of amour, he disavows empirical proof of Isolde’s betrayal. While through the ... deeply in love as will their unfortunate son. The ultimately fatal addiction to the euphoria is nearly instantaneous. For both Rivalin and Blancheflor the danger involved in consummating their love is twofold. Bearing a bastard child would result not only in the cataclysmic loss of societal position, but quite possibly her death. Rivalin, less prudent then his future son, risks the wrath of an angry Mark by out right eloping with ...
- 2096: Health
- ... revolution.(p.2) The control of childhood disease often eliminates problems that occur later in life as a result of these diseases. Instead of going away, the minor assaults suffered by the body from disease, abuse and neglect can have "sleeper" effects. For example Chicken pox in a child can lead much later in life to the itching diseases known as shingles. Vaccines and other medicine have eliminated many of the childhood diseases. Schaie predicts that people who will become old 30 or 40 ...
- 2097: Why Kids Join Neo-nazi
- WHY KIDS JOIN NEO-NAZI GANGS In most cases the reason why kids join any gang is the result of trouble at home. If you interview a child from a skinhead gang they came from a family with one or more of the following factors: divorce, separation, physical and or sexual abuse and disfunctional parents. These conditions are further compounded by joblessness, poverty, lack of education, bandage barriers, academic deficiencies and distinctive element from pop culture, such as violent themes in music, television and films. Many people ...
- 2098: Breach of Confidentiality: The Legal Implications When You Are Seeking Therapy
- ... the client is a criminal defendant and uses insanity as a defense” ( Bourne, 487 ) "If the client is underage and the therapist believes that he or she is the victim of a crime (such as child abuse)" ( Bourne, 487 ). The breach for a clients insanity defense would have been helpful in deciding a famous court case in 1843: the McNaghten's case. McNaghten used the insanity defense, when he was faced with ...
- 2099: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... problem associated with the use of lithium is its use by pregnant women. Its use during pregnancy has been associated with birth defects, particularly Ebstein's anomaly. Based on current data, the risk of a child with Ebstein's anomaly being born to a mother who took lithium during her first trimester of pregnancy is approximately 1 in 8,000, or 2.5 times that of the general population (Jacobson et ... of these medications can be used in combination with lithium or in combination with each other. Valproate is especially helpful for patients who are lithium noncompliant, experience rapid-cycling, or have comorbid alcohol or drug abuse. Neuroleptics such as haloperidol or chlorpromazine have also been used to help stabilize manic patients who are highly agitated or psychotic. Use of these drugs is often necessary because the response to them are rapid ...
- 2100: Anorexia And Bulimia
- ... s increased emphasis on the slim, fit body places pressure on many people. We know there are many factors affecting the development of the disorders- biological, psychological and sociological- so the relationship between parent and child need not to be seen as the dominant cause. However the reluctance to mature physically (sexually) and emotionally, and the issues of personal control between parent and child, could contribute to some cases of anorexia. Low self -esteem and poor body image contributes to both disorders; and it seems life crises- such as changing relationships, childbirth or death- may trigger the eating disorders ... death, so I would reccommend expert advice as soon as possible. 4. How are the family and friends of the victim affected by the diseases? Parents often comment on the seceptions practiced by their sick child. While anorexics will usually deny having a problem, bulimics wilo go to great lengths to conceal the problem. It is a shock for a parent to find evidence of vomitting, of empty boxes of ...
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