Aging

article What Does Successful Aging Sound Like? Profiling Communication About Aging, explains the study of how adults converse about aging and how this relates to a successful aging process (Gasiorek, Fowler, & Giles, 2015). The article is specialized to professional and scholarly audiences. This article is set for these two types of audiences because it discusses a study about aging at a college reading level. The audience could range from a college student with a communications major to a Psychiatrists studying how different types of people age based on their communication patterns. Anyone who hasn’t studied any type of communications at all would find this article very difficult to understand…

Question 1 A- The simple way to define aging is to describe it as the time units between birth and a date of observation. And it can be defined as the group of processes that occurs in living organisms over time and leads to loss of adaptability, functional impairment and ends by death.it is important to differentiate between aging and secular effects which are environmental effects that affects people who live within identified period of time. Aging can be described as decline or regression in…

The world’s population is getting older. All around the world people are living longer due to improvements in health care, nutrition, and technology. This shift brings with it incredible possibilities, but also a new set of problems. How do we care for our elderly (Diamond 2010)? There are vast differences in how societies across the globe view, and treat their elderly. Perceptions of aging and the elderly influence societal behaviors and expectations towards our older population…

Describe Your Feelings and Beliefs on Aging in the United States Looking back from the time I started my nursing career to the present, I have seen how the image of the older adults has evolved from “the stereotypical views and images associated with ageing” (Grant, 2001, p. 777), to a more positive regard of the older population. In addition, Healthy People (HP) 2020’s focus on “maintaining the quality of life and wellness of older adults” (HP 2020, 2015) has set new targets for nursing…

The Untied State aging society will considerably be higher in the coming few years when the post war baby boomers are retiring. This will place a significant additional burden on the income security spending of the U.S. government and bring new challenges to existing economic policies. This paper analyses the impact of increasing aging population on the macroeconomic variables in the labor market, government spending, and fiscal policy of the United States economy. Introduction …

The stigma that comes with aging commonly involves cognitive decline and vulnerability though this is very rarely the case. While their bodies may be declining, they are still incredibly mentally sharp and aware, and still present as every other information user: one that continuously seeks and uses information to meet their needs. During this time of exponential technological and information growth, everyone needs information to survive and thrive, and the elderly are no exception. They…

Eventually, as people age they experience different alterations in the body, and organ systems that can interfere with their everyday activities. (Hooyman, Kawamoto & Kiyak p.42). However, normal aging does not necessary mean that each individual will go through the same type of changes. There are changes that some elders experience, and others don’t. A typical change that people will experience as they age is physical changes for example, wrinkles in the skin and gray hair. Elders, tend to be…

There are different issues affecting the aging services today and I would be discussing one of them in this paper. “Time bomb: Aging population may explode global economy by 2050” was the headline of the article I read a few days ago. What was the article about? The article brought my attention to some really surprising facts. Firstly, the population of people hat were over 60 years of age is “double” the amount it was 30 years back and is believed to even double its present amount by the year…

be an anomaly of aging is the norm in the 21st-century. In 1900, economists reported the United States’ (U.S.) population was 76 million of which 3 million (4%) attained age 65 and older (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1996). Whereas, in the year 2000, there were about 282 million of which 35 million (12%) were age 65 and older (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). Economists explain the increased proportion of older adults living longer were due to decreases in infant and child mortality and increases in…

In North America, the media tends to portray negative cultural attitudes toward the elderly, as our society tends to glorify physical signs of youth by associating youth with beauty and sexuality (Little & McGivern, 2013). Many people in our society struggle to fully understand the aging process until they reach old age themselves, which may be related to stereotypes associated with the realities of life as an older adult (Little & McGivern, 2013). However, other cultures embrace the aging…