Ageing

Aging is an inevitable quality of life no matter how much it is dreaded, feared, and prevented. It is common for people to attempt to stay young as long as possible whether it is in ways related to appearance, habits, or even interests. The will to stay young is only the beginning of the many trends that express themselves during Erikson’s last stage of development “Integrity vs. Isolation”. Through observation of tendencies in behavior, performance, and development of individuals in this life…

An aging parent’s declining health may be hard to cope with due to the roles of parent and child being reversed. People want to ensure that their elderly parents will be comfortable and well cared for in the future, but the demands of acting as the primary caregiver may be too overwhelming. Families across America face the difficult dilemma of making the best choice of what to do with an aging parent about elderly care, assisted living or maybe even a nursing home. Their parents may disagree…

The Industry and the Company’s Products and Services The Industry There are currently 40.3 million senior citizens in the United States with about 750,000 choosing to live in an assisted living facility. Industry forecasts show that this number is expected to almost double by 2030. However, like most industries, the recent economic recession has caused the industries growth rate to slump. The drop in housing values paired with losses in stock prices has cause millions of Americans to lose a…

When people are born, they require a lot of care. Parents work hard to make sure their children are fed, bathed, and given the attention needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. As adults progress in age, the roles reverse. The elderly rely on their children to care for them as they once cared for their children. With care from personal family members, senior citizens can avoid depression, neglect, and infections that spread throughout nursing homes. As age increases, so does depression. With…

Theory of Change, Target Audience I came across this issue when I was in high school. As my grandparents aged they could no longer do the things that they wanted to. Their eyesight was going bad, normal every day movements were getting harder and this resulted in numerous falls. The older my grandparents got the more our family urged them to move into an assisted living community where they could have safety and a sense of freedom again. To this day my grandparents are still living on their own…

Everything in the vast universe has experienced aging, from the grandest star to humans Once something ages, it cannot go back in time and change that fact. My father is aging and using his time to support his family by working his job. Located in South San Francisco, a monumental brick building covered with various layers of white paint, huge letter that spell out “Draeger's” in cursive. As soon as the ID card slides into the keypad, it opens the glass door, varieties of aromas go through your…

The way people prepared for their retirement has changed dramatically over the last few decades. It used to be that most people planned and saved for their retirement the same way and those plans were fairly predictable. However, nothing could be further from today's reality where planning and saving for retirement is a much, much different scenario. Retirement in the 1980s Decades ago most retirement plans consisted of a combination of social security and a company pension plan. Then once you…

Often times, stories, short stories, and even poems contain the same theme. The theme in a piece of literature is based off the characters, action, and setting that make up the story. It is simply the crucial message of a story or poem and brings a more in depth meaning to what is being read. Themes can be expressed in many different ways, it all depends on how the writer wants to show the message to the audience. The writer can plainly state it or make it unspoken but implied. More often…

What is it like to be old in this milenum? Has technology helped or hindered our quality of life? What will be the view point once we are sixty-five and older? How will we interact with others in old age? Many questions come to mind when thinking about old age. To be a woman is a blessing, but it does have its down side when it refers to a woman that is aging. Unfortunately, women can be very competitive when interacting with other women. Although being a woman who is old is very different from…

Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a nineteen line poem divided into five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines which is written in a very specific form “the villanelle” and depicts a speaker who is really emotional about his father. One of the things that concerns him most is that his father should embrace life to the very end although he knows that death is something no one can avoid. The speaker on the other hand argues for the stillness that death…