Baby Boomers Documentary Analysis

This documentary discusses the surplus of aging Baby Boomers. For the first time, America is faced with the challenge of having to provide palliative care to the elderly and dying. This is not something that the health care system of America is prepared to handle. In the early 19th century people were not living as long as they are today. Therefore, people were not suffering from multiple diseases and disorders. Doctors were not as common as they are today. Morbidity has a rate of 100%. There is no escaping death. Everyone is going to eventually die. Hospitals became more popular and abundant after World War II. Insurance was just being introduced as well as the start of many medical advances. Before hospitals were a common thing in communities, those communities that did have hospitals would not treat or accept dying patients. It brought their overall mortality rate up and success rate down, which was not good for business. …show more content…
One of the residents interviewed discussed the health of her deceased husband. She went into detail discussing how he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After her husband was diagnosed, she took an aggressive approach to his treatment. The wife disclosed how difficult it was to get the husband to take his chemo medication as well as a risky trial was she was advised against getting him into. The video also revealed complications that the patient suffered after the initial treatment in the trial. After her husband died, she asked herself was she doing this to get him healthy again, or was she doing this for her. She couldn’t answer that question. If she could do it again, she would have kept him out of the hospitals and spent more time with him doing the things that he