Grandparenting can be highly rewarding. Many grandparents, though, unexpectedly become guardians and raise small children. How might this responsibility affect their normal course of adult development?

Grandparenting can be highly rewarding. Many grandparents, though, unexpectedly become guardians and raise small children. How might this responsibility affect their normal course of adult development? What components might require transitions? How would a professional counselor encourage these older guardians in their new roles?

Discuss the ethical and cultural strategies for promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in older adults.

Resources: To prepare for this assignment review the following theories of aging listed in Chapter 13, 14, and 15 of the textbook.

  1. The Five Factor Trait Model
  2. Rate‐of‐Living Theories
  3. Cellular Theories
  4. Programmed‐Cell‐Death Theories
  5. Information Processing Theory
  6. Continuity Theory
  7. Competence and Environmental Press Theory
  8. Erik Erickson’s Integrity vs. Despair

Part 1: Older Adult Interview

Interview an older adult of your choice (they may be your parents, relatives, or friends) and have a discussion about the factors that influenced their development. Address the following as part of the interview:

  1. Cognitive, physical, and psychosocial development during the interviewee’s Maturity stage of adulthood (age 65 or older).
  2. How peers influenced the interviewee during his or her adolescent/young adult stage.
  3. What people and/or events influenced the interviewee’s development of morals such as faith, ethics, and culture?
  4. How the interviewee’s experiences, positive or negative, have formulated who he or she is as a mature adult.

Note: American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines indicate that interviewees have the right to refuse to answer any question posed to them by an interviewer. Please ensure that your interviewees are aware of this, and do not force them to answer where the opportunity to reply has been refused.

Pick one of the theories reviewed in Chapters 14 and 15 of the text.

Part 2: Reflection

Write a paper of 750‐words, discussing the selected theory and how it relates to your interview. Include the following in your paper:

  1. A description of the selected theory.
  2. A description of your interviewee (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.).
  3. How the interviewee’s responses illustrate the selected theory. Support your response with examples.
  4. Discuss the ethical and cultural strategies for promoting resilience, optimum development, and wellness in older adults.
  5. Include at least three scholarly references in addition to a personal communication reference for the interviewee.

Using your evaluation plan, discuss how human subjects will be used and how you will ensure their protection, informed consent, and confidentiality.

Using your evaluation plan, discuss how human subjects will be used and how you will ensure their protection, informed consent, and confidentiality. Also, explain how financial integrity will be maintained. (Identify the source(s) – title, source, and dates – accessed for this discussion).

Describe why you were to chose a specific method to select a sample over other method. Defend the method you preferred.

Describe why you were to chose a specific method to select a sample over other method. Defend the method you preferred.

The subject on second previous homework was about quantitative research,,, and on that second previous homework you said that to conduct a quantitative research you would use Experimental research design Method.

Describe how each firm is likely to be affected by a fall in the value of the euro?

Currency hedging Alpha and Omega are U.S. corporations. Alpha has a plant in Hamburg that imports components from the United States, assembles them, and then sells the finished product in Germany. Omega is at the opposite extreme. It also has a plant in Hamburg, but it buys its raw material in Germany and exports its output back to the United States.

How is each firm likely to be affected by a fall in the value of the euro?

How could each firm hedge itself against exchange risk?

Describe your leadership style from your Clifton Strengths Signature Theme Report. What were your areas of leadership strength from your profile?

Describe your leadership style from your Clifton Strengths Signature Theme Report. What were your areas of leadership strength from your profile? Based on your current knowledge of leadership, explain how you might improve and build upon your strengths/skills. Explain strategies from other leadership styles outside your own that you may want to incorporate into your repertoire to meet the needs of various groups.

Describe the processes involved in anabolic and catabolic reactions.

The weekly activities generally consist of answering the chapter objectives located near the beginning of each assigned chapter. Make sure to write and enumerate the questions inside quotation marks. Follow that with your original answers not inside quotation marks. At the end of each chapter or the homework, list your references in full (not just a link) and flank each reference by quotation marks. Minimum 75 words per answer (some questions can be completely answered with fewer words).

The link for the newer (and free) version of the book is here: https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology

Chapter 24

  1. “Describe the processes involved in anabolic and      catabolic reactions”
  2. “List and describe the steps necessary for      carbohydrate, lipid, and protein metabolism”
  3. “Explain the processes that regulate glucose levels      during the absorptive and postabsorptive states”
  4. “Explain how metabolism is essential to maintaining      body temperature (thermoregulation)”
  5. “Summarize the importance of vitamins and minerals in      the diet”

Chapter 25

  1. “Describe the composition of urine”
  2. “Label structures of the urinary system”
  3. “Characterize the roles of each of the parts of the      urinary system”
  4. “Illustrate the macroscopic and microscopic structures      of the kidney”
  5. “Trace the flow of blood through the kidney”
  6. “Outline how blood is filtered in the kidney nephron”
  7. “Provide symptoms of kidney failure”
  8. “List some of the solutes filtered, secreted, and      reabsorbed in different parts of the nephron”
  9. “Describe the role of a portal system in the kidney”
  10. “Explain how urine osmolarity is hormonally regulated”
  11. “Describe the regulation of major ions by the kidney”
  12. “Summarize the role of the kidneys in maintaining      acid–base balance”

Chapter 26

  1. “Identify the body’s main fluid compartments”
  2. “Define plasma osmolality and identify two ways in      which plasma osmolality is maintained”
  3. “Identify the six ions most important to the function      of the body”
  4. “Define buffer and discuss the role of buffers in the      body”
  5. “Explain why bicarbonate must be conserved rather than      reabsorbed in the kidney”
  6. “Identify the normal range of blood pH and name the      conditions where one has a blood pH that is either too high or too low”

Chapter 27

  1. “Describe the anatomy of the male and female      reproductive systems, including their accessory structures”
  2. “Explain the role of hypothalamic and pituitary      hormones in male and female reproductive function”
  3. “Trace the path of a sperm cell from its initial      production through fertilization of an oocyte”
  4. “Explain the events in the ovary prior to ovulation”
  5. “Describe the development and maturation of the sex      organs and the emergence of secondary sex characteristics during puberty”

Chapter 28

  1. “List and explain the steps involved in fertilization”
  2. “Describe the major events in embryonic development”
  3. “Describe the major events in fetal development”
  4. “Discuss the adaptations of a woman’s body to pregnancy”
  5. “Describe the physiologic adjustments that the newborn must      make in the first hours of extrauterine life”
  6. “Summarize the physiology of lactation”
  7. “Classify and describe the different patterns of      inheritance”

Explicitly identify and provide a name for the company-wide strategy you recommend for your company (coca-cola) and then explain the essential components of the company-wide strategy you recommend for your company.

Post a polished and synthesized  entry into the discussion area, which will also be the basis for an  entry into the final draft of your Strategy Playbook for Extraordinary  Results.

  • Explicitly identify and provide a name for the company-wide  strategy you recommend for your company (coca-cola) and then explain the essential  components of the company-wide strategy you recommend for your company.
  • Evaluate the company-wide strategy that you recommend for your company.

In a well-organized, focused essay, consider the importance of a financial issue in healthcare policy and its impact on the future of healthcare in the United States.

In a well-organized, focused essay, consider the importance of a financial issue in healthcare policy and its impact on the future of healthcare in the United States.

Examples of topics include: Some example of top challenges for healthcare finance in 2020 as identified by https://hitconsultant.net/2019/09/13/top-10-challenges-issues-and-opportunities-healthcare-executives-willface-in-2020/#.Xh0aglNKi1s:

1. Costs & Transparency – Implementing strategies and tactics to address the growth of medical and pharmaceutical costs and impacts to access and quality of care.

2. Consumer Experience – Understanding, addressing and assuring that all consumer interactions and outcomes are easy, convenient, timely, streamlined, and cohesive so that health fits naturally into the “life flow” of every individual’s, family’s, and community’s daily activities.

3. Delivery System Transformation – Operationalizing and scaling coordination and delivery system transformation of medical and non-medical services via partnerships and collaborations between healthcare and community-based organizations to overcome barriers including social determinants of health to effect better outcomes.

4. Data & Analytics – Leveraging advanced analytics and new sources of data (history, labs, Rx, sensors, mHealth, IoT, Socioeconomic, geographic, genomic, demographic, lifestyle behaviors) to improve health outcomes, reduce administrative burdens and support transition from volume to value and facilitate individual/provider/payer effectiveness.

5. Interoperability / Consumer Data Access – Integrating and improving the exchange of member, payer, patient, provider data and workflows to bring value of aggregated data and systems (EHR’s, HIE’s, financial, admin and clinical data, etc) on a near real-time and cost-effective basis to all stakeholders equitably.

6. Holistic Individual Health – Identifying, addressing and improving the member/patient’s overall medical, lifestyle/behavioral, socioeconomic, cultural, financial, educational, geographic and environmental well-being for a frictionless and connected healthcare experience.

7. Next Generation Payment Models – Developing and integrating technical and operational infrastructure and programs for a more collaborative and equitable approach to manage costs, sharing risk and enhanced quality outcomes in the transition from volume to value. (bundled payment, episodes of care, shared savings, risksharing, etc.)

8. Accessible Points of Care – Telehealth, mHealth, wearables, digital devices, retail clinics, home-based care, micro-hospitals; and acceptance of these and other initiatives moving care closer to home and office.

9. Healthcare Policy – Dealing with repeal/replace/modification of current healthcare policy, regulations, political uncertainty/antagonism and lack of a disciplined regulatory process. Medicare-for-All, single-payer, Medicare/Medicaid buy-in, block grants, surprise billing, provider directories, association health plans, and short-term policies, FHIR standards, and other mandates.