Management of Diabetic Older Adults in Nursing Homes Overview The elderly present a crucial and distinctive but heterogeneous group of persons living with diabetes since they possess a unique biomedical, mental, as well as social composition (In Bates et al. 2014). This makes them require needs that are different from younger adults. In light of this, care must be taken in the evaluation and planning of the nursing and management of these populations. The management of diabetes should concentrate on deterring and limiting medical conditions that are common in the elderly, low levels of blood glucose as well as the impairment of the brain and nervous system. This paper will be centered on the management of elderly patients at the Tower Hill Nursing Home. It will provide the epidemiology of the disease, the demographic prevalence, conduct a root cause analysis, and identify a possible action for one of the factors in the analysis. Additionally, it will provide clinical quality measures to gauge the success of the possible action. Population Rising with the diabetes pandemic is the number of older adults…
The Functionality of Enneagram Test The enneagram test is a unique type of test that allows an individual to fill a simple questionnaire in order to asses somebody’s character. It categorizes people into nine different types of people. I conducted the exercise and the results were promising and had a huge percent to be true. The test described me as a loyalist, reformer and an investigator which were type 1, type 5 and type 6 respectively. According to my opinion, I strongly conquer with the test results since it classifies common characteristics of a single type of person which helps it in concluding such character. To base my type of being a loyalist, it had reviewed the questions about myself being compassionate and trustworthy towards my friends. Moreover, being a reformer was concluded regarding the asked questions about encouragement, self-discipline, reasonable, responsible and consideration. Investigators are people who are straight-fowarded and always get along with everyone. Additionally, they have high levels of integrity, knowledge, and intelligence. These are some of the characteristics I possess and believe that the system…
Dead Poets Society Introduction Dead poet society tells an American film story of English teacher of imagery to conservative Vermont boys school of Welton Academy who gave inspirations to his student through teaching poetry. This film received box office success by winning of BEFTA Award for best foreign film. From Walden, it noted by transcendentalist David Thoreau, the text displays simple natural living of natural surroundings. The book points out some scientific analysis of nature phenomenon, poetic and metaphorical. Walden (disambiguation). Thoreau memoir part and his spiritual aspirations made Walden open to announce that he spent several years living simple life of sampling popular and scientific names and records of details of different plants and animals. In the 1920s era, their evolved a tremendous change in the socially and politically in the world of American Literature. Different communities listened to music and learned same dances or spoke same language. Dead Poets Society points some important consensus affecting the performances genuinely from the young inspirational turn and from Robin Williams. Meanwhile the performance by Dead Poets Society was far less.…
Gender inequality in today’s society Introduction According to the recent research, women remain to hold fewer positions in the workplace compared to men globally. However, constitutions in many countries are being designed in a way to boost women positions tremendously. This Step has been adopted to obstruct prevailing dominance of men in major positions of leadership. There are reasons behind misrepresentation of women in executive, dictatorial and governance positions. In this case, a common word used to explain barrier to poor women representation in the workplace is glass ceiling. Glass ceiling is used to refer to the invisible obstacles behind gender inequality. One of the major reasons as to why women do not find their way to senior positions is that they do not examine themselves as leaders. As a result, they lack effort to fight for the major positions. Becoming a holder of such major positions takes into account learning the skills, knowledge and roles required in that particular post. In addition, it means learning leadership styles of the people in office. Barriers for women in leadership positions In…
Community-Based Approach to Obesity Prevention Obesity is a complex condition that involves having excess fat accumulation. Obesity causes a risk of having other health conditions like heart diseases, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Obesity can occur at any age in a person’s life. The rate at which people are getting obese has continued to increase with time. It is caused by lifestyle choices among people in a community. Some of the lifestyle choices lack inactivity and unhealthy diets. Most people prefer to eat fast food which has a lot of calories because it is easy to access and it is cheaper. The other cause is age because as a person becomes older, they become less active. With age, the number of muscles in the body decreases, which leads to decreases in metabolism that eventually lead to a person becoming obese. The other cause is a social and economic issue. Low income earning people are at a high risk of getting obese. The main reason being they prefer to buy food reach on energy even though some are not healthy food…
Teaching project Diabetes is a metabolic condition where the level of blood glucose is abnormally high. Glucose is the primary fuel of our bodies. Foods that affect sugars are referred to as carbohydrates. Diabetes incidences are rising every day in the United States. The United States is one of the most developed countries in the world. The USA has shown significant advancement in improving the health care sector. Diabetes, however, has continued to burden these efforts. The most common diabetes is diabetes mellitus. The estimated population of the American people who have diabetes are up to 16 Million, which represents 5% of the total population. According to statistics from the Centers for Diseases control CDC’S (2020), diabetes cases have increased up to an estimated population of about 34.2 million. These statistics showed that new diabetes cases estimated at 1.5 million was adults above 18 years. Out of those affected, 10 million are the only ones diagnosed, and the rest 7 million are not. As far as age groups are concerned 150,000 people who have not attained the age of 20…
Diabetes affects physical activity and exercise. When an individual has diabetes, sometimes pancreas does not produce any insulin, make insufficientinsulin or the produced insulin work improperly. The reason as to why a patient with diabetes is insulin-independent, meaning heneeds to take it as medication. The insulin helps in managing the level of blood glucose. One takesinsulin by injecting it using an insulin pump or insulin pen. However, insulin has several side effects that affect physical activity and exercises. Too much insulin causes hypos, this is when blood sugar is low, or there is insufficient blood sugar. Hypoglycemia causes intense fits of hunger, weakness, palpitation, dizziness, often have speaking trouble and nervousness .with this one can’t be able to exercise effectively. Also taking to much work out more than usual can lead to low blood sugar for diabetic people. Without enough glucose, one body cannot perform its normal functions. (Creuset al.810) When diabetes patient starts medication and taking insulin, most of them begin to add weight. Insulin is a growth hormone, and any growth hormone one take means adding on weight.…
Family Development Theory Introduction This assignment paper sets to critically evaluate the various aspects of the family development theory by giving a personal definition of family, discuss how the family kept on changing over time, examine multiple family life cycle stages in each period, and provide a reflection on my family’s timing. Definition of Family A family is a social unit that comprises ofparents and children who are living together and who are related to each other by either marriage or birth. As supported by the family development diagram, the family was composed of different family members in various life periods. In the first section or drawing, the family was composed of father, mother, an older brother, and sister by the time I was entering the family. In the second section or drawing which reflects my family composition by the time I was graduating from high school, it comprised of the father, mother, older brother and sister, a younger sister and I. The third drawing or section which reflects my expected family members in the next five years comprises of…
Escape Rooms Teach Thinking Outside the Box Escape rooms are trending, and you have hopefully tried one. If you haven’t, then you need to. Indeed, a lot of people who have tried them attest to how they make them happy. You might be wondering how it makes every participant happy! You see, the hormone responsible for happiness is called dopamine. It is usually released when you give your brain some workout that is involved in the problem-solving aspect of escape room. However, this could be temporary; there are still multiple benefits gained from the escape rooms. Escape rooms, the whole world seems to be going crazy for them. Have you tried one yet? If so, you They improve overall attention to details You see, it involves solving puzzles so that you could escape. Most of the puzzles are not straightforward. You have to pay acute attention. You must focus on what you are doing. You should be able to recall certain objects you come across earlier in the room. Thus, by exercising your brain this way, you get a boost…
Childhood Obesity Assessment Steps in Community Organizing To solve the problem of childhood obesity in the community, there is a need to learn and integrate with the community for easier interaction. There are three main steps to organize a community during need assessment, which include entering into the community, integrating with the people, and situation analysis of the community. When entering the Lincoln Elementary school in our case, there is a need to gather basic data such as the lifestyle of the students, school culture, and practices. Also, when entering the school, the team should not regard themselves as special or savior. The team members will act naturally and dress simply when entering school. For easier integration, the team will interact with the students by doing things that students like doing, like eating the same meal, playing together, and slowly start engaging the students in order to learn more about them (Sahota and Christian, 2019). After being integrated into the school, the team will recognize situations and issues that lead to childhood obesity. This will involve engaging the students and…