What would it feel like to look at your child and not recognize all the years that you’ve shared? What would it be like to live your life through a fog of confusion, questioning your very reality? To live everyday with communication impaired. To struggle with your daily thoughts as they turn into a black web of frustration and disconnect. Is this just part of the aging process, or is it something more? Would you finally ask the unimaginable question – ‘could I possibly have dementia’?
Most people have some sort of experience with memory loss. Dementia is as old as mankind itself, it has saturated our human history since the beginning of time and will continue long after our future generations have lived and died. It is not specifically …show more content…
Technology has improved communications and advanced quality of life. The question remains to how far technology can advance to sustain and improve the aging process. Can it remove the dirtier aspects of maturation as we know them to exist?
Cultural traditions regarding elderly care vary throughout the world. Rooted in a Confucian principle of filial piety, many Asian societies are bound by a moral obligation to respect and care for elderly parents. In countries such as China and Singapore, there are even laws that enforce elderly care by children or require an allowance be set aside for long-term treatment. Throughout the world, most societies take different views on elderly care, but the theme remains current. Respect and take care of your elders. They have taken care of you, so it’s your turn to take care of them.
In the diverse society that makes up the United States, different cultural views take a hold of how elderly care is enacted. However, most white-Americans send their families to nursing homes. Other cultures have taken notice to how we treat our elderly and call it a cruel and discourteous. But what if this is the best way to help our
Most people have some sort of experience with memory loss. Dementia is as old as mankind itself, it has saturated our human history since the beginning of time and will continue long after our future generations have lived and died. It is not specifically …show more content…
Technology has improved communications and advanced quality of life. The question remains to how far technology can advance to sustain and improve the aging process. Can it remove the dirtier aspects of maturation as we know them to exist?
Cultural traditions regarding elderly care vary throughout the world. Rooted in a Confucian principle of filial piety, many Asian societies are bound by a moral obligation to respect and care for elderly parents. In countries such as China and Singapore, there are even laws that enforce elderly care by children or require an allowance be set aside for long-term treatment. Throughout the world, most societies take different views on elderly care, but the theme remains current. Respect and take care of your elders. They have taken care of you, so it’s your turn to take care of them.
In the diverse society that makes up the United States, different cultural views take a hold of how elderly care is enacted. However, most white-Americans send their families to nursing homes. Other cultures have taken notice to how we treat our elderly and call it a cruel and discourteous. But what if this is the best way to help our