assure optimal performance. Any assessment of an older adult should include the client’s current mental status‚ cognitive ability‚ social supports available to the client‚ the client’s medical status‚ and‚ if cognitive impairment is suspected‚ interviews with family members and close friends. 2) Appearance The most obvious change in the elderly is their physical appearance‚ which shows the skin thinning and wrinkles becoming prevalent. Wrinkles become more severe with age because the skin
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Demographics Paper Demographics Paper The demographics of the aging population consist of persons age 65 and older. Moreover‚ the aging population represents 12.9 percent of the American population. Basically one out of eight Americans belongs to the aging population. The projected growth rate by 2030 of the aging population is 19 percent or 72.1 million people in the United States (Administration on Aging‚ 2011). The following paper will discuss the general impact that the changing population
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lifetime is a contribution to our development as human beings. Frances Klagsbrun ’s article "Long-Term Marriages" tries to explains the secrets being long lasting marriages. The article resembles our first assignment where we had to go out and interview couples about their marriage recipe. Klagsbrun clearly writes from a North American point of view. She divides the “secrets” into eight categories: an ability to change and tolerate change‚ an ability to live with the unchangeable‚ an assumption
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RACE‚ ETHNICITY‚ & AGING Fall 2013 Professor: J. Scott Brown Course Information Office: Upham 376 GTY/BWS 472/572 Office Hours: Tue. & Thur. 8:30-10:30 Tue./Thu. 2:30-3:50 Phone: (513) 529-8325 361 Upham Hall E-mail: sbrow@miamioh.edu Recommended Texts: The course readings will consist primarily of research articles and other readings that are available in electronic format (These are either directly available via normal library search or will be provided directly
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Gerontology is a fairly new multidisciplinary field focusing on several aspects of the aging process. Gerontologists study the aging process of the physical‚ mental and social changes in our aging population. Gerontology also includes investigating the effects on society resulting from our aging population. As humans‚ we are constantly trying to deny the fact that we are aging. As young adults‚ we see that the aging process is so far away in the distance‚ and never really are prepared for it when it
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continue to exceed 10 million over the next decade. Individuals 65 years of age are expected to raise to 20% by the year 2040‚ and health care programs are projected to represent 32 percent of all domestic spending by 2022. Global aging the challenge of success 1. The Aging Population 2. Prescription drugs. A major contribution to the burden of the government budget Traditional thinking: About 12% of 65 to 74 have been reported experiencing difficulty with basic activities‚ such as eating and walking
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Mervine HCS/490 September 30‚ 2013 Dr. Joanne Tritsch Demographic Paper An Aging Population I have been designated by the senior management team at a community hospital to write a summary on the effects of changes in population demographics on the needs and services for a selected population. The population that I choose to write about is the aging population. In this paper I will identify the aging population and provide data about the demographics and psychographics for this particular
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Gerontology Conference Presentation HCS/548 Introduction Gerontology is the study of the aging process. “It includes the study of physical‚ psychological and social changes in older individuals and the investigation of societal changes resulting from the aging of the population” (What is Gerontology? 2015) This field is also concerned with the use of this knowledge to policies and programs. Current population trends in the U.S. show that people are living longer and the number of older adults is
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emotional weakness. Additionally captivating is the naturalistic imagery of the wind that "flushes with a flush that will never wholly settle"‚ which portrays her acceptance of the natural process of aging that "the wind" has caused. Her use of the "wind" seems like an interesting symbolic reference to aging being an uncontrollable force like the wind. The second stanza begins with Adcock comparing herself to a "Pre-Raphaelic beauty". She considered herself just "pretty enough" to be accepted in the
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