Aging Population Essay

The authors of “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson” and “Aging Population” have similar purposes for their writing. They are both about what happens to elders as they start to get older, and some of the challenges they face. To start off, in the “The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson”, it describes what happened to the grandfather when he ate. Bits of food sometimes fell out of his mouth, so his family didn’t let him sit at the kitchen table anymore (The Old Grandfather and His…

seniors in the total population will grow rapidly over the next several years (Statistics Canada, 2014). It is estimated that by the year 2030, one in four individuals in Canada will be over the age of 65 due to the baby-boom generation (Statistics Canada, 2014). Consequently, Canadians will face increasing health concerns as many older adults are living with at least two chronic diseases or conditions simultaneously (National Institute on Aging, 2016). As learned in previous aging courses,…

Healthcare in the aging population Human health is of great relevance in every aspect of our social, emotional, and psychological well-being. This is because health plays a major role in influencing the productivity of individuals in all economic spheres. Therefore, health care is the benchmark for determining sustainability in all scopes of life. This implies that decisions regarding health care and nursing policies impact heavily and directly on those involved within the medical field (Arabi…

Ethical Issues with an Aging Population Just last night at work, we had an 84-year-old woman with several comorbidities that fell and broke her hip. She was brought in by family who found her on the floor several hours after she fell. Orthopedics was called in for a consult and apparently deemed her not a candidate for surgery. The family was upset stating that she is a very active person who deserves to be able to walk again. With diabetes, CHF, COPD, CAD with a triple bypass, plus a host…

Long-Term and Mental Health Care in Aging Populations To understand and solve the problems that face health care administrators with the ever growing population, we must first define what is needed or required. Long term care could be described as a variety of services that due to a chronic illness or disability, the individuals can no longer care for themselves for lengthy periods of time. A staggering 70 percent of people turning age 65 can expect to use some form of long-term care during…

B) The prevention and management of aging people Why does Europe have an aging population? The aging population of Europe is due to the decrease of fertility, the decrease of mortality rate, and the higher life expectancy of Europeans. Indeed at the beginning of the 60th the feminization of the work market delayed the age for having a child, and so it directly limited the number of children per women. Also the values and the culture based of family changed in Europe. The increase of…

The basic concept of aging is that there is declining efficiency in the body as we grow older. Eventually declining efficiency will result in change in function. This will lead to degeneration, damage, aging, breakdown, and death. 2.Define ageism. Discrimination on the basis of a person's age 3.Discuss social trends in the aging population. Social trends in the aging population would be that older patient’s come from a different era and that things are evolving and changing as time passes…

Abstract The purpose of this study is to identify whether there is a need to integrate aging focused curriculum in graduate social work programs. Research questions whether graduate social work students gain competency in aging through the social work required curriculum. The projected rise in population of people aged 65 and older raises questions about social and economic disparities faced by the older population. The participants of this study are graduate social work students from four…

‘productive aging’ is coined to incorporate socially valued roles accomplished by older adults (Bass & Caro, 2001). The underlying philosophy of productive aging developed in the late 1980s views older adults as representing: an opportunity instead of crisis; a solution instead of problem; a resource instead of a drain on resources; an asset instead of burden; and a group having a tendency to make social, cultural and economic influences instead of being just an extended portion of the…

A promising start of new hobbies and productive time awoke after retiring such as Rose’s joyful time with visiting family, but retirement is ultimately seen as a deterrent to forty percent of the retired population; the loss of an occupation is compared to the loss of place in society (“Fear” par4). Rose often wondered, “Am I really living the golden years of my life?”. She rarely removed herself from her home because she lacked motivation and only communicated…