The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). ... In the latest stages of the disease the brain can no longer regulate body functions, and victims die of malnutrition, dehydration, infection, heart failure, or other complications. ... As an example of one simple support group system which illustrates the strain on family members, we examine some stories offered at a web site that are intended to make family members feel they ar...

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Also in the beginning stages of this chapter the whites began to become enraged due to the fact that blacks were given the right to vote and there were more blacks in the population then whites, so when the votes came about the blacks were voting for the republicans whom would be fighting for black people's rights, the ratio is said to be 4:1 blacks. ... Years later Pud would die in a car accident in 1924 leaving his wife Francis and their three boys Willie, Fred, James to fend for themselves and move to Augusta Georgia. ...

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y, through this study we have learned that: Female elders are abused at a higher rate than males, after accounting for their larger proportion in the aging population. ... The remaining 3.8 percent of reports had other outcomes (e.g., suspected victim died, could not be located, or had moved away). ...

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