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Jim received a liver transplant in 1999. In 1991, Jim started an alcohol treatment program and was a recovering alcoholic. In 2003, Jim’s wife and youngest son was killed in a motor vehicle accident in which Jim was driving. The accident and guilt cause Jim to start drinking again. Due to […]

Find an article on the web on feeding the elderly or nutrition for the aging summarize and include URL. Interview an elderly person 65 or older about the changes in their eating and dietary  habits, taste changes, eating schedule, dietary problems and nutritional concerns, food intolerances and other factors in […]

The question asked in my healthcare policy class is: Discuss how social visibility and financial cost impact healthcare policy. An example of from our lesson is AIDS became a very visible social issue. Urinary incontinence, although epidemic, has a cultural barrier to social visibility. Socially, it is unacceptable to be unable […]

You work in a physician’s clinic and are caring for an 84 year old female patient who takes furosemide 80 mg daily Po for congestive heart failure. The patient confides in you that on days when she leaves the house for shopping,hair appointment,or visit with family, she does not take […]

1.    James is a 7-year-old who has been admitted to the general pediatric unit for IV antibiotics because of a severe spider bite that has become infected despite treatment at home with oral antibiotics. His mother is very upset that James has to be in the hospital. She voices frustration that […]

Case study: Over 30 children younger than 3 years of age developed gastroenteritis after visiting a local water park. These cases represented 44% of the park visitors in this age group on the day in question. Older individuals were not affected. The causative agent was determined to be a member […]