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    Understanding ageing  Ageing process is a must of human growth and developments their various attempts have there have been made to explain the process of ageing and identify the key influential factors. Health and social care practitioners of somewhat with all the people I need to understand how individuals adapt to life during old-age.  What is disengagement theory  Planning and Henry would process the disengage is meant theory as a way of explaining different behaviour and development in

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    The facility will be addressing patients of the age of sixty-five and older with a physical disability or a mental disability‚ or both‚ with varying degrees of decline. One must take into consideration the sensory‚ physical‚ health‚ cognitive‚ and social aspects of an older adult and try to optimize the facility to offer maximum support and comfort by providing safe architecture and promising programs of improvements. The staff of that of a nursing home should include

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    Elder Care: A Need for Learned Gerontology Skills for Informal & Direct Care In-Home Health Aides. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Cynthia K. Magelitz: Introduction to the US Healthcare System Shepherd University MBA Studies: Health Concentration 11/20/2013 Elder Care: a Need for Learned Gerontology Skills for Informal & Direct Care In-Home Health Aides. I. Late Adulthood Years A. Gerontology B. Working With the Aging C. A Growing

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    Introduction People’s experiences of death and dying are profoundly affected by social and cultural differences. Socio-economic factors such as standard of living‚ economic infrastructure‚ diet‚ environmental disasters‚ war‚ sexual pervasiveness‚ disease etc all interconnect to affect the way in which they frame an individual’s experience of death and dying. The unequal distribution of resource throughout the world and the differing levels of food shortage‚ disease‚ war and natural disasters need

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    daughter had moved out she moved back to India to see her friends and family a couple of years after living there she began to lose her mobility due to this she began to lose contact with some of her friends and didn’t go out as much this represents the social disengagement theory. The activity is when an individual still has routine and is still able to go out

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    physical‚ intellectual‚ emotional and social development for each of the life stages of an individual.” Definition of physical “Of or relating to the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit” definition of intellectual “A person possessing a highly developed intellect.” definition of emotional “A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling” definition of social development “Pattern or process

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    individuals should be encouraged to remain active & develop own-age friends. The first major theory I am going to be evaluating is the activity theory (Havighurst & Colleagues‚ 1963) and how they are used in provisions provided by the health and social care setting of a care home. Most care homes provide many provisions to residents staying there to promote the activity theory. They include activities such as bingo‚ day outings‚ memory games etc. All of these active provisions are good for residents

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    Evaluate the influence of two major theories of ageing on health and social care provision. I am going to evaluate the influence of two major theories of ageing on health and social care provision. Firstly‚ I am going to discuss the different services available to older people in health and social care. There are many services available for the older people and some of them include; Activities for Older People‚ Adult Protection‚ Community Transport‚ Home Care‚ Luncheon Clubs‚ Residential Care

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    ‘An ageing population can bring economic‚ political and social advantages as well as disadvantages’ (15 marks) The world’s population is growing older. There will be higher numbers of elderly people‚ a larger share of elderly‚ longer life expectancies‚ and fewer numbers of working-age people than dependent people. An ageing population does raise some challenges‚ but they are not all bad. It also brings new opportunities‚ because people have longer‚ healthier lives‚ resulting in extended working

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    Social Security was a good idea but somewhere along the way it was not thought out to last. The Social Security Act was signed in to law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 14‚ 1935. It included several provisions for general welfare and created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. There two major provisions related to the elderly‚ Title I- Grants to States for Old-Age Assistance‚ which supported state welfare

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