Most residents of nursing homes have cognitive impairment, and the majority of those individuals have dementia. Providing a supportive environment for people with moderate to severe dementia requires certain specialized design andintervention features. This need has resulted in the development of special care units in many nursing homes. Well-designed special care units for people with […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Bell hooks: Pain as Catalyst and Conduit
So far, we might tentatively conclude that Derrida and Marks are attempting to unsettle whatever established ideas we might have held about the nature of truth, the transparency of linguistic and documentary forms of communication, the political nature of discourses and other forms of representation, and advocate for ways in which we might “trouble” these […]
ENGENDERING BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD
Beginning with Harlon Dalton, the authors in Part II explore the antiracist construction of Black racial victimhood. Dalton suggests that the Black community’s prioritization of race over gender or sexual identity is disturbing because it asks individuals to forsake important parts of their identity and suffer injustices in silence in order to remain authentically Black. […]
Characteristics of Nursing Homes
Nursing homes vary a great deal in the amount and quality of care they provide. One useful way of evaluating them is by applying the competence — environmental press model. When applied to nursing homes, the goal is to find the optimal level of environmental support for people who have relatively low levels of competence. […]
Schumpeter’s Error
For now, and as far down the road as we can see, history has proved Schumpeter wrong on several accounts. As the intellectual class evolved, it was not immune to the capitalist culture of innovation, competition, and choice. Thriving on disagreement, intellectuals generated a competitive marketplace of ideas in which critical perceptions of capitalism vie […]
Schumpeter’s Error
For now, and as far down the road as we can see, history has proved Schumpeter wrong on several accounts. As the intellectual class evolved, it was not immune to the capitalist culture of innovation, competition, and choice. Thriving on disagreement, intellectuals generated a competitive marketplace of ideas in which critical perceptions of capitalism vie […]
Cos Angeles (Times
Foreign Women and Children Can Leave Iraq, Hussein Says Imagine a law requiring our daughters to enter a jungle and risk being shot through their heads. If you heard a news report lamenting that innocent men and children were being shot, would you want to shout, "Wait a minute, my daughter is innocent too!”? We […]
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAKING MEN DISPOSABLE
ITEM The Defense Department gave $2 mdlion to Louisiana State University to study how to return brain-injured soldiers to battle (rather than help them adjust to civilian life) The Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine protested. But wait… The protest was not over the recycling of brain-in/ured men, it was over the subjection of cats to […]
NATURAL LAW AND NATURAL ETHICS
The question was complicated by disagreements over how to define natural law, and how to conceive of human understanding. Essentially, though, there were two poles of opinion. The orthodox view throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was that the law of nature was entirely consistent with the moral law laid down in the Bible. All […]
CONTROVERSIES
Financing Long-Term Care The current system of financing long-term care in the United States is in very serious trouble. The average cost of a private room is close to $80,000 per year (New York Life, 2007) and is by far the leading catastrophic health care expense. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2007) estimates […]