Medical Care for an Aging Population Chad Sommers HCS/440 January 12‚ 2012 Pranab Rout Aging is an inevitable event that all people will have to face at sometime in their life. No matter gender‚ ethnicity‚ or race‚ aging affects every individual in different ways as unique as their own personality. As the Baby-Boomer generation begins to reach retirement age‚ there is becoming an urgent need for expanding the national geriatric medical services
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Adult What is a definition for an adult? A fully developed person from a malignity owned‚ or when a person over twenty-one. I claim that an adult don’t have a specific definition‚ and I think that is nothing about age‚ appearance‚ and relationship. How to show you are an adult? Around five years ago‚ when I was working in a computer’s company‚ I felt I was an adult. Five years ago‚ I was working in a pretty good company‚ and I was working harder than other peers; in addition‚ I worked more than
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Social Theories of Aging Age Stratification Theory People are grouped into age cohorts‚ known as age strata. Age is one basis of control over resources‚ such as allocation of jobs. Age categories change through time based on historical events‚ biological and social aging. Roles and how you should act‚ are based upon which age strata you are born into‚ and how these change over time (both individual time‚ as you age‚ and how your age strata moves through society at a particular point in historical
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Generation after generation aging parents become the responsibility of the following generation. It’s the way life is set up to work. However‚ just taking care of ourselves is a full time job‚ let alone a parent or other family member that needs assistance in their later years. For most‚ taking care of an aging parent is an act of love‚ but for many it’s a job they would rather hand over to someone else. Because of the fast‚ busy and full pace of life‚ many younger people simply don’t have the
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loss has long been recognized as a common accompaniment of aging. The inability to recall the name of a recent acquaintance or the contents of a short shopping list are familiar experiences for everyone‚ and this experience seems to become more common as we age. Over the last few decades‚ the medical community has changed its view of memory loss in the elderly. These problems were viewed in the past as inevitable accompaniments of aging‚ often referred to as “senility” or “senior moments.” More
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Aging Workforce Richard Barger Southern New Hampshire University “ People will be working beyond traditional retirement ages‚” said Peter Woolford‚ Executive Director of the Canadian Employers Council and the employers’ spokesperson at the ILO meeting in September. According to The U.S Population is Becoming Larger and More Diverse; The baby-boom generation-which has been a major force in the labor market for the past 20 years- has now reached its prime working years and makes up about 47 percent
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Effects of Aging in Prison Wanda W. Jones Webster University Table of Contents Objective 3 Aging in Prison Literature Review 4 Participants 13 Measurement 14 Survey and Data Collection Tool 15 Data Collection Method 18 Analysis 19 Schedule 20 Budget 21 Institutional Review Board 23 Peer Review 24 Objective This research proposal will be on the aging prison population. The topic to be explored will be the impact of the elderly in prison on society. It will attempt
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I had moderate difficulty picking a topic that would expand both of the aspects of aging that our two classes have been studying over the course of this summer. After much debate with myself‚ and the wise council of my elders‚ I have decided to take a moderate dip into the connections between ‘spirituality’ and ‘successful aging’ and make a tie in with how policy is affecting what dictates ‘successful aging’ and ‘spirituality’ itself. Then I will provide an example of a current program/facility that
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/ =309&Dtp=1&Fmt=5&TN=2&Uno=17 Enlarge 400% Many physical changes associated with aging can affect productivity. Those that have been investigated include decreased cardiorespiratory functioning‚ reduced muscle strength and sensory deterioration. A decrease in cardiorespiratory functioning often leads to increased fatigue‚ according to a 1995 study. This can reduce productivity in older workers‚ who may be relegated to more physically demanding tasks if they lack technical skills for more
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system model. New Jersey: Person Education Northeastern Univerity. (2013). The Interdisciplinary Team. Retrieved from http://www.northeastern.edu/geriatricsbiger/the_team/ Touhy‚ T.A. & Jett‚ K. (2012). Ebersole and Hess’ Toward Healthy Aging. Human needs & aging response (8th ed.). St. Louis‚ MO: Elsevier Saunders Waldman‚ P.(2012). The benefit of Medicaid: What having insurance means. Retrieved from http://prospect.org/article/benefits-medicaid. Wills‚ M.E. & McEwen‚ M. (2011). Theoretical
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