by Barbara Riley-Baker | Jun 20, 2018 | Aging
by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. GERONTOLOGY is the study of aging from a variety of perspectives; psychological, socioeconomical, physiological, historical and clinical. Time Period Prehistoric men/women Ancient Greece Middle Ages (England) 1620...
by Barbara Riley-Baker | Jun 17, 2017 | Aging, depression
Help for Those Over Sixty-Five Dealing with Depression by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. Mrs. D. is a seventy-two-year old woman who lives alone. She has been a widow for eight months. Her husband of fifty years died suddenly as the result of a car accident,...
by Barbara Riley-Baker | May 23, 2017 | Aging, Alzheimer's, Caregivers
Caregiver Interventions Reduce Negative Appraisals by Caregivers dealing with the Problem Behaviors of Family Members with Alzheimer’s Disease by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. Abstract In this study by Mittelman, Roth, Haley and Zarit, (2004) it was...
by Barbara Riley-Baker | Jun 20, 2016 | Article, disability, illness, women
Of Worms and Women: SARCOPENIA: and its Role in Disability and Mortality by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. Article Review: The nonparasitic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) are microscopic worm-like organisms. C. elegans were discovered about...
by Barbara Riley-Baker | May 20, 2016 | Aging, disability
Multidisciplinary Approach to Fall ~ THE CASE OF MS. KELLY by Barbara Riley-Baker, BA, MA, CMC, C.P.G. At Mease Countryside Hospital, the rehabilitation program’s social worker calls in the multidisciplinary discharge planning team to review the case of Ms. Kelly....