...the elderly naturally withdraw from all social engagement with others they saw their restraint possibilities. My chosen celebrity is Marilyn Monroe and probably remain socially active for a long time since her career is acting and she will not stop performing until she reaches retirement, so it would still be active and not withdraw from the social activity, however Monroe did not live past the age of 33 and this could not have been certain. She could have stop at any point her career and become a person withdraw from social life. Marilyn Monroe being in an acting career would stay socially active for a long while. As Monroe would be acting she would not have stopped until departure, this would mean Monroe would still be active and less withdrawn from society, however because Monroe did not live past the age of 33 this could not have been certain. Monroe may have stopped her career and became socially withdrawn faster than what was prophesied. Activity theory is a major theory that demonstrates that the elderly need to disengage but at the same time they should remain active to prevent the disengagement of going too far or become uncontrollable. Otherwise tell the elderly person need to withdraw from society but not to the extent that they find it difficult to communicate with everyone. Bromley said: "The elderly people need to be educated to make use of them and encouraged to abandon the inconsistent attitudes and fixed habits." Having said that the elderly person must...
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...Elder abuse and neglect among the elderly is one of the many challenges we face today. Elder mistreatment is a common, yet frequently ignored problem in our society. The elderly population is increasing dramatically. By the year, 00 demographic predictors say the population of 65+ will grow to 70 million, which represents a 100 percent increase over 0 years. So elderly abuse and neglect will continue to be serious problem in the United States. It is estimated that in the year 000 “11,000 Americans age 65 or older experienced a violent crime”. Elder abuse not only happens in institutional settings, but it is also appearing in domestic settings. The close, extended, and often times unsupervised visits that helpers have with patients has increasingly highlighted the need to protect elderly clients. Like any other form of abuse, elder abuse is a multifaceted problem, and it is easy for people to have misconceptions about it. When you hear the words “elder abuse and neglect” you often times think of elderly people sitting all alone in nursing homes with no visitors. But I have mentioned earlier that elder abuse is not just a problem of older people living in nursing homes, but it is right in our midst. Most of the incidents of elder abuse doesn’t happen in a nursing home setting. Often times there are reports of nursing home residents who are mistreated, but for the most part elder abuse takes place in the home. When elder abuse happens in the home it is usually done by a family...
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...Mary Wright 10/28/12 English 1301 Essay # 3 Persuasive Essay Many times in places where alcohol is sold, the server or cashier has to deal with problems with the customer. Some range from simple problems like when a customer is just in a sour mood; to the more difficult problems like when they have to judge the age of the customer for alcohol sales. Most of the time it is easy to judge the age, but there are times when it is hard to tell if the customer is over the age of forty so they can buy alcohol without being carded. The only way to solve this problem is to require that everyone, by law, is to be carded regardless of their appearance of age. When it comes to dealing with a law, many people feel that they are above the law and can get away with anything. Cashiers and servers have to deal with the customers who are just old enough to buy alcohol, and think they don’t have to be carded anymore; and the ones who are don’t look quite like they are forty and still have to card them. The law does require us to card anyone who appears to be under the age of forty. Most of the time the customers have their I.D.s, but there are many times where they “forgot”, sometimes they truly forget, and still hope we sell the alcohol to them, but legally we are not allowed to sell the alcohol to them if we ask for their I.D. A lot of the time making the decision of carding a person can make us very uncomfortable, and scared for our jobs. For example a few weeks ago I had two customers...
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...Shadab Alam, Tuesday 8 - 11 10B8174 It is time that Brunei considered setting up residential homes for the elderly. How far do you agree/disagree with this statement? The ageing population is growing in number as a country develops and its standard of living increases. Countries such as Japan, is which has a high standard of living showing the population aged 65 years and above are at a steady 22.9% (CIA, 2011). Brunei, as a developed nation also is experiencing ageing population and is expected to rise in the coming years. The main reason for the rise is due to the high standard of living and a proper diet with a better medical facility. As a result of this, Brunei is facing several problems and is trying to tackle the problems. In this essay, I will discuss the problems faced by Brunei as a result of its ageing population and explain the alternative solutions for the ageing people. One of the problems that ageing causes is causing a burden to the economy of Brunei. This is because elders do not serve the government any longer and do not benefit Brunei’s economy but is provided with several medical benefits and other incentives. This is considered as a ‘burden to the country’. Furthermore, the elderly are provided with free medical facilities, as well as pensions. For example, medical facilities include, Renal Departments, more doctors for the Cardiology Department and other old age related diseases. Another problem of ageing population is related to the society where...
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...ANTI-TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ELDERLY By Fernando Flores The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service defines “Assistive Technology” (also known as “Adaptive Tools”) as any service or tool that helps the elderly or disabled do the activities they have always done before but must now do differently. Simply reading the above definition, one assumes that Assistive Technology is the best thing for the elderly shy of not aging at all. However, in the following essay, I will make my attempt to inform the reader that this is not always the case. Those who support assistive technologies assume that increasing our elderly’s ability to age “in place” automatically improves their quality of life; therefore, successful aging. However, assistive technologies do not consider that “successful aging” is very subjective. Aging is a complicated event and is not limited to issues only associated with biological and/or functional means, which assistive technology focuses on and attempts to resolve. By relying heavily on assistive technologies and allowing the elderly to “adjust” to their environment as a means of adapting to their biological and/or functional limitations associated with old age, assistive technologies diminish the concept of “social aging”. Through a social gerenotlogical view, the...
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...towns of Australia but also among other countries in the world. It is with this discrepancy that presents such a large challenge within the population and from a health perspective. This essay will explore the social, cultural and psychological health related issues linked with growth in the aging population and will focus on the baby boomer generation and the co-morbidities that are notably prevalent in the elderly. This essay will also consider the future role of the nurse and how their profession will be impacted in response to these trends. WHY DO WE FACE AN AGING CRISIS? As fertility rates decline and longevity increases we are coming to face a shift in population distribution with a greater proportion of older adults (Anderson and Hussey, 2013). It is important to note that this increase is due particularly to the Baby Boomer generation growing older and associated aging co-morbidities on the rise. The Baby Boomer generation consists of those born from the years 1945-1964 (Berman et al., 2012). As this generation grows older the world is faced with a huge increase in older adults, greater than any generation before them. Because the population is living longer they are faced with a number of co-morbidities that are particularly prevalent in older adults. The elderly will experience physical deterioration more commonly than the younger to middle aged population. Changes in the sensory functioning are...
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...Top People: * My Mother * My Grandmother * My Aunt Gail Top Disabilities: * Dementia * Alzheimer’s * Loss of motor skills Family Essay The top person in my life is my mother and the top disability is dementia. Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior. It is a common disease that adult and the elderly can develop overtime. If my mother got this disability I would be completely devastated. I couldn’t do all the things I did with her before she got this disability. I couldn’t go shopping, cook, travel, or even talk to her like I did before. Life wouldn’t ever be the same and would change drastically once her disability got severe. My family would be supportive and would help us take care of her. My family and my extended family are so supportive and would do anything for each other. I am glad my family is like this so no one is afraid to ask for help or getting judged. If my mother needed to be taken to an appointment or therapy and my siblings and I couldn’t take her someone else would in a heartbeat. The worst about this disability is the memory loss. If my mother had dementia she would forget about her whole family. It must be heartbreaking to know that your mother doesn’t know your name or all the good memories you’ve had together. I would be so supportive and do anything in my power to help my mother. I know that the role switch when your parents get old...
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...When we think about our personal identity, we finally come to a question: “Am I the same person that I’ve been earlier in my life?”, and usually we end up with an opinion that even though our bodies change over time, we still remain being the same persons. Of course excluding the cases of severe memory loss or any other similar condition. Through this essay I will convince you that this point of view is mistaken. At first, I will share a light on Locke’s identity of consciousness argument. Furthermore, after showing Locke’s view of the consistence of personal identity over time, I will talk you through Thomas Reid’s “transitivity of identity” argument. Following that, I will introduce you to Irving Copi’s definition of personal identity and my interpretation of it. In the end, I will summarize all the ideas and points of view, to come to my final conclusion, that you are NOT the same person as you were when you were six years old. Locke’s identity of consciousness states that there is a difference between a human being and a person. A human being is just the body of a person, everything that is considered as existing through its materiality in our bodies. While a person is a “thinking intellectual being” that is still the same...
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...The audience could also be anyone who has grandparents and uses computers. The essay’s purpose is to convince computer users to reach out to their grandparents through more traditional methods of communication. The author wants her audience to write on paper instead of email. Doing this, she argues, will reach the elderly on a level familiar and comforting to them. I wouldn’t change much in terms of the audience , but the purpose could be made a little more focuses and specific Thesis ,topic sentences , and paragraphs:I think the thesis is a little muddled.It seemed more implicit as opposed to an explicit thesis. If I had to pick one sentence that’s thesis , it would be the first sentence.The topic sentences are strong , because they seem to summarize what each paragraph says. The strongest one is “ A letter gives your grandparents the real thing.” The paragraphs have some strong examples that illustrate the author’s points. I wouldn’t change much about the topic sentences. I’d made the thesis statement a little more explicit , and check the grammar in...
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...INTRODUCTION This essay is all about discharge care planning and will be discussed in two parts, the first part will highlight patient profile, assessment and discharge care planning with evidence based rationale using a framework based on Roper- Logan-Tierney (2000) model of nursing which involve giving nursing care holistically by using 12 activities of living (AL) and also incorporate nursing process to carry out care plan in this essay, which are maintaining a safe environment, communicating, breathing, eating and drinking, eliminating, personal cleansing and dressing, controlling body temperature, walking and playing, mobilising, sleeping expressing sexuality and dying. Also with the above mentioned framework, factors influencing the activities of living which include biological, psychological, socio-cultural, environmental and political economic will be considered. Also demonstration of how discharges are planned and problems identified will be discussed, which will involve members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and their roles in the patients care, education and support for family/carers. The second part will explore how recent health service legislation has influenced this care plan and its impact on caring of older people with long term condition. In this essay, issues on professional values according to Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct (2008), which include consent, confidentiality, respect and dignity will be undertaking. For the...
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...in a completely opposite fashion. '”The Welcome Table” was written by Margaret Walker. Walker was published under her maiden name. She was best known for her poem "For My People," published in 1942, and her best-selling novel, Jubilee, based on her what her family went through during slavery and immediately after the Civil War, it was published in 1966. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama., Walker was a resident of Jackson, Miss., and was a professor emeritus at Jackson State College. She taught English and was also a director of the Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black Peoples. Walker, began her career in writing in the 1930s. She,still was writing in the 1990s. Walker's last book of essays, On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays, 1932-1992, was published in 1997. This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems was published in 1989 (Odom, 1998). She died of Breast Cancer in 1998. She was 83 years old. Nadine Gordimer is the...
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...Geriatric Field Argumentative Essay Jazmine Capel Critical Thinking 2:00pm-3:20pm Formal Analysis 1) The impact that my grandparents have made in my life has influenced me to make working with the elderly a career. 2) The elderly are an ever so rapidly growing population and there is a need for professionals in the geriatric field. 3) The many issues that accompany the elderly are a growing concern of mine. 4) I believe that caring for the elderly is one of the most challenging and exciting areas of health care. Therefore, I have chosen Geriatric Social Work as a career objective. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” ~John Bunyan I believe that we were given two hands, one to help ourselves and one to help others. As an aspiring social worker, I have learned that helping others who cannot sufficiently help themselves is one of the main objectives of the profession. My career objectives upon graduation include being a social worker in a hospital, care facility or an agency focused on helping families but specifically the elderly. The impact that my grandparents have made in my life has influenced me to make working with the elderly a career. The elderly are an ever so rapidly growing population and there is a need for professionals in the geriatric field. The many issues that accompany the elderly are a growing concern of mine. I believe that caring for the elderly is one of the most challenging...
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...Juxtaposition “Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery” is a quote by the famous scholar, W.E.B. DuBois. The two essays, The Charter of Freedom in Brazil and the Gradual Abolition and the Dynamics of Slave Emancipation in Cuba, 1868-1886, shows two slavery occupied countries as they progress into a dissimilar era. Though both of these essays have numerous similarities, such as speaking about population decreases and the class system; both also have differences, for example, they focus on different ideas such as, social dynamics and routes to freedom. The definition of similar is “almost the same as someone or something else” (Similar).Thus, as previously stated, the essays on Brazil and Cuba are...
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...End of Life Care Student’s Name Institution End of Life Care The cause for the trend of majority of elderly people not dying in their own homes as their preference is NHS failings, incorporating a scarcity of health visitors, which ensues in the desires of the elderly persons being ignored or not adhered to. Owing to poor co-ordination of social and health care services for the dying, the preferences of the individuals nearing death frequently go unidentified, and in instances where the preference to die at home is clearly stated, it frequently cannot be met (Rensbergen, Nawrot, Hecke, & Nemery, 2006). The social and healthcare providers conventionally offer low priority to end-of-life care as is evident in the lack of adequate training among significant staff. Another reason encompasses social-contextual elements. Gender, living status, and age are predictors of the location of death; however, the implant of a nursing home in a domestic community is the fundamental factor (Rensbergen, Nawrot, Hecke, & Nemery, 2006). As a nurse, to support clients in end-of-life care, and in reinforcing their preferences, one can come up with creative partnerships with healthcare professionals, patients, policy developers, and others to ascertain that care of the dying is prioritized. Moreover, one can record the comprehensive requirements of dying patients and families and taking note of individual, organizational, professional, and societal hindrances to quality end-of-life care...
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