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approximately 2,300 people of the age 100 or older alive in the world, by 2050 there is expected to be around 600,000 people of that age or older. The oldest person on record to ever live was a French woman named Jeanne Calment, she was 122 years old at death, she lived from 1875 to 1997. As time goes on life will increase regardless to any treatment of age as the technology we develop and standard of living is a lot more functional and efficient for living long lives. One of the most…

start to distance themselves from society and many prepare themselves for an unpredictable death (McDonald,2009:p151). As a result, they feel isolated, depressed, anxious and lonely. Many live in a residential home and can find the transition of having their own independence to needing full-time care difficult to adjust to. This can lead to a poor self-esteem and feelings of a loss of identity (Macintyre,2009:p113/115). Group work interventions can help meet the elderly persons physical,…

Brooke Simunjak Physician Assisted Suicide in the United States A large dispute that has been going on for over a decade in the United States that is unknown by most is physician assisted suicide. Physician assisted suicide (PAS) is when a physician supplies a patient with information and prescriptions to successfully end his or her life. An example of one of these prescriptions is secobarbital, which is a pill to treat insomnia, but with the right amount can be lethal. Debates have been…

first and foremost step is to encourage prevention. One way this can be done is to encourage help-seeking behavior. “Efforts to promote help seeking are among the panoply of interventions that may diminish risk for suicide ideation, attempts and/or death” (Klimes-Dougan et al., p.83, 2012). Help-seeking is a simple idea but a difficult thing for the individual experiencing suicidal ideation. The reasons making help-seeking behavior difficult are: it requires self-awareness of a problem, a…

Size of the Group A group on aging should have anywhere from eight to twelve people (Corey, 2010). This is a manageable size for group leaders and is small enough to facilitate discussion between members. Additionally, it would be ideal if the group could meet once a week. The group itself, as stated earlier, would likely take place in a nursing or retirement home for the sake of convenience for residents without a car. The added benefit to this is that those who are confined to a retirement…

Much of the symptoms that arise from aging are rooted in death anxiety, even if people are unaware. For example, if someone seeks psychological help because their only child has recently gone off to college, sending them into a whirlwind of depression and anxiety, they are likely feeling as if their title of “parent”…

Aradillas, Elaine. "My Sister's Murder 45 Years After Manson." People, vol. 82, no. 10, 8 Sept. 2014, pp. 90-95. Academic Search Complete. Accessed 1 Feb. 2017. Debra Tate recalls horrific memories, and emotions 45 years after her sister Sharon’s death just as it was yesterday. Debra finally opens up about the tragedy that changed her family's life forever. The family finds out that Sharon was not killed in a fire, but rather that it was far more brutal. Debra lives with these memories everyday…

Introduction Today’s societies are developing at a faster rate than thought humanly possible with new technological and medical advancements unearthed each day. Despite such progress, however, the world today is advancing, many regions of the world still struggle with an archaic controversy that has plagued mankind for centuries. Physician assisted suicide is the doctoral practice of intentionally providing someone with the means to commit suicide. This is includes, but is not limited to, the…

Raymond Nahikian December 6, 2017 Rhetoric and Narrative Professor Welling Final Paper What Killed Music? The Slow and Mysterious Death of Music “Real music is dead! Why isn’t there any good music like this nowadays!” I have seen this short, exclamatory sentence frequently in the comments section on YouTube. They can be found on multiple videos involving music approximately from the 1950s to the mid-to-late 2000s. Online comments like these have divided music lovers and casual listeners…

A grandmother and her grandchildren are picking (source check needed)berries in the field outside their house, when they noticed a drone flying above them. They are aware it is there, but are not worried, as they are not armed nor are they combatants. In an instant, the drone opened fire on the grandmother and two children. They are separated, calling out for one another, unable to see through the thick clouds of black smoke. The two grandchildren runs toward the house. One of the grandchildren…