References
Gerst-Emerson, K., & Jayawardhana, J. (2015). Loneliness as a public health issue: The impact of loneliness on health care utilization among older adults. American Journal of Public Health, 105(5), 1013-1019. doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302427
This article states that loneliness is one of the biggest issues for older adults. Loneliness can be tie to more health care issues and utilization of the health care facilities. They go on to state that a lot of elderly patients visit their doctors more often for social support rather than just medical treatment. The data gathered for this article was collected by a 2008 and 2012 questionnaire conducted by the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for those 60 years of age and older. Although this was …show more content…
These elderly adults have been subject to physical, financial, and mental abuse along with being neglected. There was a study done which included 135 older adults, male and female, over the age of 65 that lived by themselves or with others. In this study the researchers used the method of a questionnaire to get the results. The results indicated the older adults over the age of 75 were more physically abused and those younger than 75 were financially abused, but overall, they all felt they were emotionally abused or neglected. After these results were concluded they were able to come up with suggestions to fix this issue concerning older adults. A major weakness by using a questionnaire for this study could be that another family member could have filled out this questionnaire or the person filling it out could have been scared to state their true feelings. This article gives different kinds of abuses that older adults encounter on more of an emotional …show more content…
The authors state that depression for older adults’ results from independence, mobility, health problems, loneliness, isolation, medications, fears, and much more. They go on to say that this is frequently seen with older adults because this is what is expected for their age, which eventually causes worse scenarios of the elderly because it goes untreated. There are many efforts that are stated that can be done such as, psychologists can provide direct help for the elderly to improve the psychological wellbeing of older adults. This article shows that the attention needs to be turned towards the elderly adults in society and help them get the help they need. This article provides a lot of research on the mental health of elderly people that can be used in an effective way for my
Gerst-Emerson, K., & Jayawardhana, J. (2015). Loneliness as a public health issue: The impact of loneliness on health care utilization among older adults. American Journal of Public Health, 105(5), 1013-1019. doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302427
This article states that loneliness is one of the biggest issues for older adults. Loneliness can be tie to more health care issues and utilization of the health care facilities. They go on to state that a lot of elderly patients visit their doctors more often for social support rather than just medical treatment. The data gathered for this article was collected by a 2008 and 2012 questionnaire conducted by the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) for those 60 years of age and older. Although this was …show more content…
These elderly adults have been subject to physical, financial, and mental abuse along with being neglected. There was a study done which included 135 older adults, male and female, over the age of 65 that lived by themselves or with others. In this study the researchers used the method of a questionnaire to get the results. The results indicated the older adults over the age of 75 were more physically abused and those younger than 75 were financially abused, but overall, they all felt they were emotionally abused or neglected. After these results were concluded they were able to come up with suggestions to fix this issue concerning older adults. A major weakness by using a questionnaire for this study could be that another family member could have filled out this questionnaire or the person filling it out could have been scared to state their true feelings. This article gives different kinds of abuses that older adults encounter on more of an emotional …show more content…
The authors state that depression for older adults’ results from independence, mobility, health problems, loneliness, isolation, medications, fears, and much more. They go on to say that this is frequently seen with older adults because this is what is expected for their age, which eventually causes worse scenarios of the elderly because it goes untreated. There are many efforts that are stated that can be done such as, psychologists can provide direct help for the elderly to improve the psychological wellbeing of older adults. This article shows that the attention needs to be turned towards the elderly adults in society and help them get the help they need. This article provides a lot of research on the mental health of elderly people that can be used in an effective way for my