Running head: Disease Trends

Disease Trends
Joliene Hughes
University of Phoenix

Disease Trends
According to the “gathering and using data for value based Health Care utilization”, the older “baby boomers and the older generation gets” the better it is for the health care system because they are aging and therefore will need more health care services to provide them with the care they will need in the future. Health Care costs are very high and it is because of chronic conditions, such as, “diabetes”, “coronary artery disease”, “Heart Disease”, “Cancer”, “Stroke”, “HIV or Aids”, “congestive heart failure”, “depression and asthma”, and the growing population in the “increase of obesity” not to mention the “lifestyles” people are living (“Gathering and Using Data for value-based Health Care Initiatives,” 2012, pp. 33-34) “According to Claiborne and Vandendurgh (2001)”, The disease trends in the United States of America is affecting millions of Americans today because usually some people wait until they are very sick until they decide to get the treatment they need, and when they wait it becomes more cost effective and the costs are then higher than usual because they wait until and become sicker or their illness will cost more to treat them, such as “diabetes”, if a male or female thinks they might have diabetes instead of them going to his or her family doctor they decide the “Emergency Room” would be better, which is not better because it cost more money to see a patient in the “emergency room” or if they wait to go be seen by a doctor his or her medical condition can get worse and cost more money and therefore it would best to see a doctor as soon as you start having any type of symptoms. Over the past several years Health Care facilities has advanced, and the overall “quality of care” for people has changed dramatically, but when it comes to chronic diseases, such as obesity and according to “center on an aging society, obesity is an epidemic across the United States and more than 20 Million “Older American’s will become obese and the obesity rates will be much higher as the years go by with the older generation of people. It is also said that as “baby boomers” get older in age, and they are “obese or over-weight they are more likely to suffer from chronic illnesses and diseases when they reach a certain age. As the years go by their will be more use of technologies to help doctors, nurses, patients, or clients, but no ways to help people have better eating habits to help with them live a healthy life. In the future there will be more farmers markets that sells “fruits and vegetables”, and more schools that provide healthier eating habits to “improve the quality of food sold in schools”, “limiting sells on less nutritious foods”, improve physical and health education”, and lastly “encourage increased physical activity during school or extracurricular activities” (Fas and Fat, 2012) To reduce health related complications related to having obesity include, ”Type II Diabetes” “heart disease”, “congestive heart failure”, “angina”, “heart attack”, “develop high blood pressure”, and “metabolic syndrome” are all obesity related diseases that can happen to anyone with obesity related issues. (Obesity in America, 2011) In the next 20 to 30 years it is believed that our “health care system” will have more ways to take care of patients with chronic diseases or illnesses that affect individuals and they will have “fewer years of life expectancy remaining than years he or she have already lived, and demographic changes resulting from life expectancy and the increase of “baby boomers” will have leaded to increased dementing disorder and Alzheimer’s disease, plus will more than double by the year of 2050”. (Jellinger, "1-2," October 2016) Changes in our health care system will have increased technology to “off -set” potential workforce shortages, including “automated pill packaging, and sensors to ensure Alzheimer’s patients do not wander away from a nursing home, hospital, or his or her home, “microchips that will record patients nutritional intake, and this technology will play a significant role in heightening productivity among health care workers so they are able to serve more consumers or patients.” (McKinsey and company, 2012)When the demand of health care is on the rise “health care workers will be retiring and are at a greater risk of depletion.” A high demand of for physicians are accepted to rise dramatically do to the high demand in the aging population. (, para. 6-18, March, 2006). As the years go by their will is more ways to treat infectious diseases and the disease trend in the United States of America will continue to grow as “baby boomers” continue to get older in age. According to the Pharmaceutical scientist by the year of 2015 recognition grows that the greatest short-term healthcare gain can be achieved optimizing the use of drugs and alignments’ among the health care workers rather than spending a large amount of money on new drugs that do not benefit people in our country. Crommelin (Volume 9, 2010) Meanwhile, the aging population will continue to rise and over the next twenty to thirty years there between 2012 and 2045 our country is “projected to experience a rapid growth within the older population’s age group, and the US Census Bureau projects in the year of 2050 United States American’s aged 65 or older is projected to be 88 million, which will more than double its projection population 40.2 million in 2012.” Furthermore, “making the baby boomers responsible for the increase within the older population, which presents challenges, to programs policy makers, Medicare, and affect health care workers?” To overcome access, cost, and standards obstacles of the United States health care systems, they must be “intensive and innovative to deliver services, such as “SMS alerts that remind patients to take their prescriptions drugs”, “remote diagnosis and treatment for patients who might not have easy access to a physician, and “remote health monitoring that track and report patients conditions”, these services could have an “major impact on healthcare costs and outcomes in the future”. Recent studies have shown in the health care industry that “remote monitoring services are likely to deliver the greatest benefit with chronic disease management of improved disease patient lifestyle, evolution, and treatment costs by allowing providers to improve.” Disease diagnoses, complication management, and intervention ahead of acute phenomena predict impending heart failure through non-intrusive remote monitoring, and treatment compliance by reminding patients and prompting caregivers to intervene with non-compliant cases, such as “insulin dosage and TB treatment” to improve treatment effectiveness, improve quality care by giving caregivers, and patients tools to manage disabilities associated with chronic diseases.” As our medical technology becomes more “sophisticated”, “complexity and cost of hospital procedures seem to increase unless significant innovations in delivery models are applied”. According to the chronic illness, aging, and demographics, “chronic diseases are the leading cause of death among baby-boomers and older people, a longer active life, as opposed to a longer life characterized by dependency and disability, can only occur with adequate management of the chronic illnesses that often accompany old age and management of social and health behaviors throughout life, such as diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and a healthy environment in which to live and work, which plays a role in the development and progress of chronic conditions among baby-boomers or the older generation.” (The John A. Hartford Foundation, 2011). Depending if he or she smokes, does not exercise, or maintain a healthy lifestyle can cause “unhealthy living”, and “illnesses”, plus certain other services “has increasingly been challenged by the costs of caring for the rapidly expanding chronically ill population. Chronic conditions and illnesses are” costly, if managed poorly or not managed at all, and In our country United States if America “currently there are more than one‐third of the health care expenditures are for treating chronic illnesses do to “smoking, cancer, type one and two diabetes, high blood pressure, and other diseases, such as, hepatitis, and HIV or Aids are presented as a chronic condition or illness.” (The John A. Hartford Foundation, 2011). Health care in the future for “age-related health issues will be more of a reduced cost because of the new technology by the year of “2050”, and there are Health care facilities around the world which are experimenting with new approved health care service deliveries allow providers to overcome the
And other “Resources among regions offer access to people in remote locations if he or she does not have access.” (McKinsey and company, 2012) Finally, “the interrogated care have the potential to reduce costs dramatically, while increasing patient satisfaction and clinical experience, but although the cost of health care is at the highest prices it has ever been in the 21st century in twenty to thirty years the cost will becomes lower because of the advanced technology. There are some major chronic illnesses and that are very costly for the baby-boomers, such as ”diabetes” , “congestive heart failure (CHF)”, and “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)”, and the only way to same money within health care facilities is by “reducing the number of emergency room visits”, “cases of hospitalization”, and “the need for management in nursing homes.” (McKinsey and company, 2012) Remote monitoring is a way health care will be able to make sure his or her patients is taking their medications on time because of the technology in the future, people would be remained to take their medications, and “offers considerable benefits in other areas, and can means the patient’s will not spend as much time in a doctor office, hospital, or health care setting if the new technology would take effect and help cut the cost of health care expenditures in the United States if America. (McKinsey & Company, 2012) Disease trends in the future of the United States will have better medications, ways to treat patients, more information, and will have ways for baby-boomers to be “ways to be reminded too take his or her medications, and go to the doctors if they have an appointment, so they do not forget they have an appointment with the doctor.

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