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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder that affects the brain and is the prominent cause of dementia in the elderly affecting 26.6 million people worldwide. The global prevalence of Alzheimer’s is predicted to quadruple by 2050 to more than 100 million, at which time 1 in 85 persons worldwide will be living with the disease.
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We all know there is a shortage of nurses in Canada right now. We all know that the shortage is going to get much, much larger over the years in direct relation to the growing population of senior Canadians. We also know that Canadians, just as others in the ‘developed countries’, do not replace themselves. The birth rate substantiates this.
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Please try to imagine what life would be like if you were a busy, stressed individual.
This will not be easy when, in reality, yours is a truly wonderful life. Your daily routine is immensely satisfying and enjoyable. Your work schedule leaves you plenty of time for relaxing pursuits. You have no worries, so you always sleep well. But some of your friends appear to be inexplicably busy and stressed.
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When systematically planning an event as important as your very own myocardial infarction, we should establish clear objectives. We have already agreed on the first one: we propose to delay the event as long as possible. Age 106 would be acceptable.
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State-of-the-art imaging technology is aiding in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of the three biggest killers of men: lung, prostate, and colon cancers. Prostate cancer death rates have been declining since 1994, according to the NCI, and colorectal cancer mortality rates have been in steep decline since the mid-1980s.
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Many people have seen the narcoleptics on TV who will be standing there and then collapse into a heap because they fall asleep without warning. Fortunately, my husband isn’t one of those. Although sometimes I wish he was because that would be such a great cocktail-party trick.
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Everyone in the focus group knew what HIV was. They also knew what it meant: extradition from family, disconnection from community, isolation, and pain – God’s punishment for the promiscuous.
The youth from the Tanzanian town of Mpwapwa were far from ignorant of the consequences of unprotected sex. Everyone knew someone living with HIV. They learned of the illness through magazines, radio talk shows, and through community-based organizations, including PATUU, a group dedicated to HIV/AIDS awareness through dramatic presentations and lyrical rhapsodies.
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Talking about death is very often awkward. Most people don’t like to acknowledge that death occurs, let alone talk about it. If the subject comes up, silence sets in, as people try to think of something to say. When a nurse who works in palliative care mentions her job to a new acquaintance, the response is almost certainly one of two: “Oh, you’re so special to be working in a place like that,” or, “That must be so depressing.”
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I was four short months into my nurses’ training. Such a short time ago I had been an eighteen-year-old girl newly graduated from a small town high school. I was still an eighteen-year-old girl but it felt strange being in a position that was so completely foreign to me. After plunging into the rat-race of nursing theory at a big college in the city, I had earned the title of “Student Nurse”.
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We’ve all seen them, we’ve all heard them, and maybe we’ve even been part of them: the shift wars. It’s possible that this happens in other professions where people work around the clock, I don’t know. But I do know that in nursing, shift wars are alive and well.
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