Elderly Care Myths

I am a home health aide so I work with the elderly throughout the day every day. Elderly often don’t get the best treatment that they deserve. North America often portrays aging in an adverse way of loneliness, dependency, poor mental and physical performance (Dionigi). Elderly people often need more time to process information (e-text 126) I know this from experience I often have to repeat and explain and physically show information about many things such as money, receipts, medication etc. one myth is that all elderly people are confused in a senior care environment. When growing old physically slowing down happens in all seniors, but mentally slowing down happens in a wide range of people. You can have an elderly person with who is constantly …show more content…
The seniors can live in a studio and even up to a 2 bedroom and also they bring their belongings to make it is their own personal private setting. They can enjoy chef prepared meals, and enjoy other senior’s company. The next myth in a senior residential setting, residents don’t have privacy. When a senior or family member thinks a senior living center is an institution and they feel they won’t have any privacy they will not make a choice to go there and this can harm the senior. If the senior lives alone, they can get depressed or they can have an accident and no one will be around to give them the care and help they need. Some seniors that do stay home usually have a home health aide like me, but it doesn’t always work out because if a patient can’t pay out of pocket their insurance will decide how many hours of a home attendant or home health the patient will get. I often have had patients where a live-in aide was medically necessary, but only received 2-3 hours during the weekdays. One more myth is the elderly will eventually need to be relocated from the senior residential setting to a nursing home when their physical health declines