Gerontology

Adult Home Care: Home Modifications for the Elderly When your senior loved one chooses to continue living at home despite difficulties with mobility or other physical, mental, or emotional challenges, safety is the first thing that should be considered. While adult home care will be able to help them with daily tasks or chores such as light housekeeping, laundry, personal care (bathing, grooming, dressing), meal preparations, and the like, a few home modifications can go a long way to…

As technology advances throughout the years, the life expectancy for elderly Americans will increase dramatically (Singh, Bajorek, 2014). Americans life expectancy has increased over the last few years, and as of 2015 Americans can expect to live an average of 78.7 years (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] 2017). Over the next 33 years, the United States elderly population is expected to be around 83.7 million adults, that is nearly double what it was in 2012 (43.1 million) (CDC,…

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The Constitution expressly states under Article III that “that judges both of the supreme and inferior courts shall hold offices during good behavior”. This could be interpreted as an appointment whose term of office is for life so long as they are in good behavior. I personally do not agree with the lifetime tenure. I would prefer to have the Justices or Judges to serve at certain number of years like maybe 15 to 25 years. Lifetime tenure creates problems such as it allows bad Justices to…

In 1900, the United States has been the home of many children in general. Before reaching the age of majority also grandson, grandparents, were died in general. The family structure is meant pyramid looked like a large number of children and parents and grandparents almost. In the 2000s, however, more generations are living in the same point in time than in the past era. Families can live longer but have fewer children, grandparents and great-grandparents (Gillen, Mills, Jump, n.d). In addition,…

I am going to write my article on something that we all must face if we are fortunate to do so: Aging. What I am looking for is the history of ways people have gone to reach the fountain of youth. I will also research about the aging process. These things will be for a natural lifetime. What I am also interested in when it comes to aging, is future technologies that are to be introduced and experimentations on lengthening the life span, and reducing the physical ailments of aging. For those…

Booke The stories "The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson" and "The Wise Old Women" both support the universal theme that value is not found in your physical abilities. Both of these stories express the idea that our elders should not shunned or looked down upon, but praised for their wisdom and experience. In the story "The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson", an old man is treated like a nuisance by his very own son and daughter in law. They don't see how cruel and mean they are to…

Hoarding disorder in the elderly has received extensive coverage in newspapers, digital media, and television shows. For many years it was considered either the crazy junk-loving person’s disease or an older person’s disease. Most studies conducted were reporting about hoarding that starts in childhood adolescence and then progressing into mid-life, but then the information stopped for lack of reporting of late life hoarders. There are studies, but they lacked credible information because the…

Actress Cameron Diaz said “They are our storytellers-Our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth.” Tom Craig from Marjorie P. Lee the retirement home was my classmates and I storyteller on the 1st of October 2015. On this day, Mr.Craig allowed us to interview him about life in general back in his young ages and also to interview him about his personal life. As a wise man, he gave the young group of students some wise advice that…

Population aging, a worldwide phenomenon is changing age structure of the society. The world’s population proportion of aged 60 years or over increased by 4 percent (from 8 to 12 percent) since 1950 to 2013 (UN, 2013). It is predicted that it will rapidly increase in the next four decades, reaching 21 percent in 2050 (UN, 2013). In the U.S. the proportion of people more than 65 years represented about 14.1 percent (44.7 million), about one in every seven Americans in 2013 (ACL, 2014). By 2040,…