development‚ and services will be essential. The demand for these critical components within a lifetime that has increased significantly in the last century is important to the health and well-being of all people. The Aging Population Health care issues and challenges that affect the aging population include chronic disease‚ long-term care‚ physical disabilities‚ and behavioral determinants‚ to name just a few. These challenges will continue to increase as baby-boomers reach retirement at very fast
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discussed in more detail later in this paper. Some of this trends suggested that diversity in the workforce is important if companies were to remain competitive and able to attract workers. After this‚ companies started to implement efforts to create a case on diversity. (McCormick‚
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Current Issue in Aging Celia Langlinais University of the Rockies Abstract The difference between aging with Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease was the main reason to worry‚ and kindle gerontological curiosity into this field. Unexpectedly‚ the majority of the people have issues involving risk factors‚ screening‚ and evaluation of dementia with Intellectual Disability (ID) and or‚ with or without Down syndrome (Perkins‚ Friedman‚ 2012). The American Journal on Intellectual
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Maintaining a skilled and competent workforce This section includes good practice on: • Introduction • Employee retention • Homeworking • Evening shift • Training of existing employees Introduction An effective workforce is fundamental to a successful organisation. Employee retention The good practices below will help you to maintain a skilled‚ competent and effective workforce. These are: • promoting the benefits of healthy eating and exercise by investing in innovating training and establishing
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Aging and gender impacts in our society in different ways and there are many issues where aging and gender makes a big different. Aging and gender can put the different aspects in the society. When we say gender‚ we usually mean male or female and gender is one of the big issue in our society. For example‚ in our society when we think about nursing we usually think that all the nurses are female. It is very hard for our society to believe that there are no male nurse. In fact‚ it is true that there
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analysis of how the United States handles aging; (b) recall the myths I heard while parenting my firstborn son; and (c) explain my belief that one’s achievements within a culture can delineate success across societies. Cultural Views of Aging The writing mentions the process of socialization and the varying views of aging across cultures. Socialization characterizes how “an individual becomes a member of a particular culture and takes on its values‚ beliefs‚
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How to Manage Multicultural Workforce COMM/215 September 04‚ 2012 Introduction The world is becoming more diverse and most large companies are multicultural. Diversity definitely has brought new importance to the workplace. “More organizational leaders are trying to overcome the challenges of managing a multicultural workforce so that they can reap the benefits. A multicultural workforce consists of employees with a wide range of backgrounds. Age‚ race‚ national origin‚ gender‚ and marital
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Aging is not a period where you get ill or wait for your death to come. Although it is true that aging brings a lot of vulnerabilities or cognitive changes‚ it is just a continuation of what we are going through our lives. However‚ the cognitive and functional changes are different from what people are used to‚ or expected to undergo; therefore‚ this may affect their psychological and physiological wellbeing. There is an increase in the aging population‚ thus‚ health policies should focus on the
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Children and Young People Workforce Introduction to personal development in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings Understand what is required for competence in own work role 1) Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role? It’s very important for me to know what my manager is expected from me .My responsibility is to know my own duties and rules. Job description must be the first thing I need to look at and have a good knowledge about it. Showing my ability
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RUNNING HEAD: ACTIVE AGING 1 Active Aging: A Personal Essay Vicki McKinzie Victory University ACTIVE AGING‚ 2 Often times‚ I have realized that senior citizens are described in terms of their pathology‚ such as being a social problem or requiring adjustments. Despite this
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