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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excerpted or redistributed in any form without express written permission of WorldatWork and appropriate attribution. Reach WorldatWork at 480/922-2020; customerrelations@worldatwork.org The Aging Workforce: Challenge or Opportunity? M Roselyn R. Feinsod Towers Perrin uch has been written about the aging of the working population and the potential implications this trend holds for employers‚ financial markets and the overall economy. The possible workforce scenarios predicted to play out
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Biologic changes: "Health in the later years is an accumulated product of your life before‚" says geriatrician Dr Denise Eldemire Shearer. "Most of the illnesses in the later years are lifestyle-related and prevention is very important." Concurrent with physical ageing - which all woman looked at last week - is biological ageing which‚ combined with the physical‚ our heredity and lifestyle habits‚ governs the functions of the body’s organs and systems as we grow older. The biological changes of
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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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/ =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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Tristan Lampkin 4th Period 1/23/15 Physiological Change What is a drug addiction? Why don’t people just simply quit doing drugs? Well here is a news flash‚ an addiction to drugs is a disease! Why is it when someone is diagnosed with cancer other people are concerned and feel horrible‚ however‚ when someone is diagnosed with an addiction to drugs they are faced with ridicule‚ and alienation? It seems that it may be this way since cancer has been researched for many years while drug addiction has not
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Physiological factors affect the body’s need and desire for food. If the body is to remain healthy and function correctly it must have adequate amounts of food containing the essential nutrients. The impact of physiological of food selection and habits amongst individual falls into 3 main categories; Hunger‚ appetite and nutritional requirement. Hunger may be defined as that feeling of emptiness‚ weakness or pain caused by a lack of food. It becomes more intense as time passes‚ until we are able
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Aging in Place Today the United States faces many challenges‚ challenges that mirror the changing world we live in as well as the changing dynamics of our country as a whole. There is more than a few issues on the horizon for America‚ and many of these issues can be tied directly to government expenditures. Not the least of which is our current position on social security spending; arguably becoming the largest Ponzi scheme the world has ever seen. However‚ it is the details that really accentuate
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