...Psychology Field Journal to 02.06 Aging What were the most significant findings in each study? Study 1- Women surprisingly in this study did not see old age and people as a curse but found them interesting and fun to deal with. Women showed positive interactions with interactions with elders and also care for them more like for example if the elder would be going through hard times the women would adopt those feelings as well. Men had negative or docile reactions to old age seeing as an oncoming problem in the future and kept interactions with elderly at a low. With pictures and drawings men were more likely to draw old men with canes and supporters with old and tired figures. While the women were more positive with seeing it as a time to have fun and relax together. We grasped from this study that even though women respond more positively than man with old age we also see that they have more anxiety towards it also. Study 2- With elderly people many people have negative responses towards how they feel getting old. Some say getting old is like draining your self not having the same energy and chances to do things as before, while others say its like a strength because it feels good to grow old it has great pride for getting this far. We see time has a stronger viewpoint than ever before with people thinking as time is more limited or others feel there out of pace with it going too fast or too slow. Lastly we see how family and interactions affect the elderly with the growing...
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...Other Free Encyclopedias » Medicine Encyclopedia » Aging Healthy - Part 3 Physiological Changes age aging differences aging age disease deterioration Ads by Google It is evident even from casual observation of physical activities, such as walking, that elderly people exhibit a deterioration of physiological processes. Moreover, the inability of athletes to continue peak performance when they reach their thirties or forties indicates that deterioration begins at a relatively young age and progresses in severity from that point on. Indeed, many studies have confirmed that most physiological processes deteriorate progressively after about thirty years of age, some functions more severely affected than others. Most of the research on age-associated physiological deterioration has utilized cross-sectional studies; that is, subjects of different ages are studied at a given point in time (e.g., the calendar year 1990). These are called cross-sectional studies because the data are collected from a cross section of the population. Since this study design provides information quickly and relatively inexpensively, it is widely used. However, because of generational factors and selective mortality, the cross-sectional design can yield erroneous information about aging. An example of how a generational factor may confound an aging study is illustrated by a hypothetical 1970 cross-sectional study of cognitive function in which Americans in the third decade of life were compared...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Other Free Encyclopedias » Medicine Encyclopedia » Aging Healthy - Part 3 Physiological Changes age aging differences aging age disease deterioration Ads by Google It is evident even from casual observation of physical activities, such as walking, that elderly people exhibit a deterioration of physiological processes. Moreover, the inability of athletes to continue peak performance when they reach their thirties or forties indicates that deterioration begins at a relatively young age and progresses in severity from that point on. Indeed, many studies have confirmed that most physiological processes deteriorate progressively after about thirty years of age, some functions more severely affected than others. Most of the research on age-associated physiological deterioration has utilized cross-sectional studies; that is, subjects of different ages are studied at a given point in time (e.g., the calendar year 1990). These are called cross-sectional studies because the data are collected from a cross section of the population. Since this study design provides information quickly and relatively inexpensively, it is widely used. However, because of generational factors and selective mortality, the cross-sectional design can yield erroneous information about aging. An example of how a generational factor may confound an aging study is illustrated by a hypothetical 1970 cross-sectional study of cognitive function in which Americans...
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...BSHS 342 Complete Course Click Below URL to Purchase Homework http://www.homeworkbasket.com/BSHS-342/BSHS-342-Complete-Course BSHS 342 Week 1 DQ 1 BSHS 342 Week 1 DQ 2 BSHS 342 Week 1 Individual Assignment Quiz on Philosophies and Theoretical Perspectives BSHS 342 Week 2 DQ 1 BSHS 342 Week 2 DQ 2 BSHS 342 Week 2 Individual Assignment Observation Journal BSHS 342 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Hot Topic Paper Methods of Delivery BSHS 342 Week 3 DQ 1 BSHS 342 Week 3 DQ 2 BSHS 342 Week 3 Individual Assignment Rite of Passage Paper BSHS 342 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Observation Journal Age 10 – 17 BSHS 342 Week 4 DQ 1 BSHS 342 Week 4 DQ 2 BSHS 342 Week 4 Individual Changes in Adulthood Personal Perspectives or Paper BSHS 342 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment Slowing the Biological Clock BSHS 342 Week 4 Observation Journal Age Adult Middle Adult BSHS 342 Week 5 DQ 1 BSHS 342 Week 5 DQ 2 BSHS 342 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Research Paper on Issues Affecting the Aging BSHS 342 Week 5 Observation Journal Age Late Adulthood For More Homework Goto http://www.homeworkbasket.com BSHS 342 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Hot Topic Paper Methods Of Delivery Click Below URL to Purchase Homework http://www.homeworkbasket.com/BSHS-342/BSHS-342-Week-2-Learning-Team-Assignment-Hot-Topic-Paper-Methods-of-Delivery Select a topic as a team for your Hot Topic paper and presentation. • Birth control and abortion • Methods of delivery ...
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...The demographics of the aging population consist of persons age 65 and older. Moreover, the aging population represents 12.9 percent of the American population. Basically one out of eight Americans belongs to the aging population. The projected growth rate by 2030 of the aging population is 19 percent or 72.1 million people in the United States (Administration on Aging, 2011). The following paper will discuss the general impact that the changing population may have on the health care market, also how and why changes in the demographics of this population will affect health care, identify two health care related challenges to the aging population, explain the marketing needs or services for the aging population and address how individual patients, the community and society as a whole can address such challenges. Healthcare Challenges Demographics on aging clearly indicate that long-term care will remain a critical issue in our society. In 2020, the number of older Americans in need of long-term care service will jump to 12 million. The aging population is growing larger and living longer, a phenomenon felt around the world. As they face scarce health resources, nations must develop policies associated with the provision of care and the quality of the dying process. Never before in human history has our planet contained so many older people or such a large percentage of them. This has not always been the case, as late as 1930, America’s older population numbered less than...
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... (Managing the health care needs of an aging population) Mody, L., Miller, D., McGloin, J., Freeman, M., Marcantonio, E., Magaziner, J., & Studenski, S. (2008). Recruitment and retention of older adults in aging research. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society, 56(12), 2340-2348. doi:10.1111/j.1532- 5415.2008.02015.x Retrieved August 4th, 2013 from EBSCOhost. The author give reason why the elderly is less represented in clinical research, even though they make up a large percentage of the population. The author provides data which give reason such as complicated diagnosis, and preapproval before being considered eligible participants. Wiet, S. (2005). Future of caring for an aging population: trends, technology, and caregiving. Studies In Health Technology And Informatics, 118220-230. Retrieved August 4th, 2013 from EBSCOhost . The Baby-Boomer will eventually make up the largest part of the population and this article cover how technology will affect them, because they are going to live at least three decades longer. Caring for them will also cause stress on family members who will act as caregiver and have a family of their own, technology will play an important part in the quality of life for the elderly. A primer on aging, part I: The aging process: Demographics and age-related changes. (1999)....
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...Health Issues in Aging The Aging Musculoskeletal System January 19, 2014 The human musculoskeletal system is the organ system that gives humans the ability to physically move, by using the muscles and skeletal system which, as the name implies consists of the muscular system and the human skeleton. Bones are connected to each other at the joints by ligaments or cartilage and skeletal muscle is attached to bones, usually by tendons. With advancing age, all tissues and organs suffer many changes in the normal way it functions and the muscles normally suffer the most damage. Research indicates that the aging of the musculoskeletal system starts usually after age 30 but it may start a little early or later in different individuals depending upon their genetic makeup ,dietary and environmental factors as well aslifestyle choices. Commonly Observed Changes Some of the most commonly observed changes in the anatomy and physiology of musculoskeletal system with aging are: a decrease in the total amount of muscle fibers due to the depressed productive capacity of cells to produce proteins. In addition, the size of muscles cells, fibers and tissue; this is also knownas generalized muscular atrophy. There is total loss of muscle bulk, power and strength of all major muscle groups like deltoids, biceps, triceps, hamstrings, and other major muscles. One can also expect wasting or wear and tear of the protective cartilage of joints that normally acts as a shock-absorber and gliding...
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...Legislation On The Elderly In The United States Final Paper The Older American Act of 1965 was signed into law on July 14, 1965. This act established the Administration on Aging within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and called for the creation of State Units on Aging. This act was considered one of the most important contributions on aging legislation enacted by congress. This report is a review of legislation regarding Older American Act. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction on the history of Legislation on the Elderly ……………………………………2 Background Early Acts Enacted to meet the needs of the Elderly……………………………2 Early Acts Enacted leading up to OAA of 1965 …………………………………………..3 Review of Older American Act…….. ………………………………………………………4 Older American Title Review…………..…………………………………………………….5 Amendments………………………………………………………………………………….9 Strength and Weakness of Older American Act……………………………………………..14 Recommendation…………………………………………………………………………….15 Conclusion … ………………………………………………………………………………16 References……………………………………………………………………………………17 Introduction The new deal program of the 1930’s was enacted by congress to address economic issues during the Great Depression. The Social Security Act of 1935 was a response to criticism for the lack of aid to retired workers age 65 and older and who no longer worked (justfacts.com). This law created "a system of Federal old-age benefits" (justfacts.com). The new act provided pensions...
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...Self-Awareness Paper The Elderly Population According to Chesnay (2008) “vulnerable populations are those with greater than average risk of developing health problems by virtue of their marginalized sociocultural status, their limited access to economic resources or personal characteristics such as gender or age. Anyone can be vulnerable at any given point in time as a result of life circumstances or response to illness or events” (p 3-4). For the last few decades, society and government have put a great deal of concern and interest on the aging population. The number of elderly population in the United States is rapidly increasing. The US population under the age of 65 tripled during the 20th century. This number is to double by the middle of next century. Over 70 million American citizens will be considered elderly by 2030, or about 20% of the population will be senior citizen (Walsh, 2009). The growing numbers are attributed to aging “Baby Boomers” and increasing life expectancies. Disability and disease are more common in elderly population such as hip fractures, parkinson’s disease, malnutrition, cardivovascular disease and malignant cancer. More than 70% of the elderly population has been diagnosed with a chronic disease (Pishchita, 2007). According to CDC, arthritis is the leading cause of disability among individuals over 65 years of age and 47% of over 85 years of age suffer from degenerative and debilitating disease. Many elders hope that they can continue to enjoy...
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...Demographic Paper Pedreed Anjahal HCA 490 September 19, 2011 Michael Veal Demographic Paper DEMOGRAPHICS It is a proven fact. With all the advances in modern health care, people are living longer. As someone starts to get older, they start feeling the consequences of aging and strive to find a healthier life style. Still, there comes a point when many people require the professional need of long term health care services. As healthy as today’s population is, illness is usually comes as something unexpected. Upon such an eventuality, a person may require some type of specialized health care needs. POPULATION CONTROL With the Baby Boomer generation decides to retire or stops aging at a phenomenal rate, people requiring long term health care needs are on the rise still. People are living longer and their health care needs may be beyond that, which can be managed by family members. Fortunately, within the current health care field there is a wide variety of systems available for helping to take care of an elderly family member. It is even possible for the family to take the elderly person into his or her home. Alternatively, the family may have to decide to place the elderly member in a nursing home for long-term care. Whichever choice is deemed best, it is always critically important that the elderly person feels comfortable in the environment in which he or she is placed (Feder, Komisar & Niefeld, 2000). According to United States society census...
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...Aging Workforce Challenges Stacy P Durham Southern New Hampshire University Abstract There seems to be many key issues that come along with an aging workforce. Not only do companies and management have to worry about losing qualified workers as they come into retirement age, they are finding out that the pool of qualified workers is getting smaller. Also, many of the retirement eligible workers are staying in the workforce. Management is forced to look at this aging population in a multitude of ways to figure out how to keep their own productivity and profitability on track. I will look at different thoughts about the aging workforce and how management can cope with the changing landscape. Keywords: aging workforce Aging Workforce Challenges Management is facing some key issues within their environment. Probably one of the most important and daunting is dealing with the aging workforce. “Workers over the age of 55 are an increasingly large portion of the workforce” (Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A., 2013, p. 41). With such a large pool of workers that are older, leaders are going to have to focus on different styles of management behaviors when dealing with the age gap. The percentage of workers over the age of 65 is increasing at an alarming rate. Due to waning economic security, longer life expectancy, and second careers, projections are that there will be 20 million workers over the age of 65 by the year 2017 (Perry, L.S., 2010, p. 22). Companies...
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...Running head: Theories of Aging Theories of Aging Nate Aungkuldee Milwaukee School of Engineering –School of Nursing Abstract Gerontological nursing may be viewed as the nursing management for older population. Knowledge of nursing care and competency of caring for elderly become more important as the result of increasing population of old age people in the past decade and expecting in ongoing increasing in the next twenty years. There are many theories of aging that describe and explain aging process and how the individuals respond to changes that occur with aging. By understanding a normal process of aging, the quality of nursing care for this population may be enhanced. The purpose of this paper is to present and explore some of the theories of aging and apply the theory into nursing practice that cooperated with evidence base research studies to implement the plan of care for an older adult. Two main theories of aging: Biological theories and Psychological theories are the focused theories that being discussed in this paper. According to many current resources the aging population in the U.S. is now rapidly growing. There were 4% of people age 65 and older or about 3 million people in 1900 (McGuire & Mefford, 2007). This old age population increased to 36.8 million people in 2005 with the increase of 3.2 million or 9.4% from 1995 (Mauk, 2010). As of today a newborn child is expected to live at least...
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...Adulthood Developmental Report When an individual reaches later adulthood they face a number of changes within their body, ad mind because of the aging process. During the later adulthood change there are role and position changes that happen along with health care changes and accessibility stages. There is also usually a change from working every day to retirement that also will involve changes in the marriage, and family relationships along with other peer relationships because as you age you change at different times and rates than others. There are many social policies that affect older adulthood because everything seems to slow down as you age. Suicide is also a big factor in later adulthood because it has risen for elderly men in general. Suicide in later life is a global public health problem with those who are aged 65 or older (Fassberg, 2012). When the individual goes the later adulthood stage the individual evaluates their life and if the individual feels they didn’t fulfill their life they may commit suicide. Aging and entering later adulthood is a big part of an individual’s life and is different for each individual. The process of aging is called senescence which is bodily changes that accompanies aging (Zastrow, & Kirst-Ashman 2010). There are many changes that happen during the aging process which are changes in your appearance, your senses start to deteriorate, vision starts to decrease, your teeth lose calcium and become weak, voice becomes...
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...The videos Global Aging and Census: U.S.'s Aging population gave brief overviews of the global population crisis. By 2050, the population of 60 plus is expected to exceed the population of those under 15. This is uncharted territory, and the implications will be costly. The economic ramifications must be examined, including the use of tax and transfer programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security). Policy and health reform need to take into account issues of the aging population (International Monetary Fund , 2011; Wall Street Journal, 2014). This problem must be solved now. If we ignore this problem, a crisis is sure to be around the corner. The National Council of Aging (n.d) has been actively lobbying for programs to support the needs of the aging, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Savvy Saving Seniors. The projected growth for the 60 and over population in Arizona is expected to greatly increase in percentage by 2050. Most alarming to me is the population of adults over 85 is projected to grow from the 2000 census of 68,525 to 265,274 in 2030. This is a staggering statistic. This growth is also apparent in the national dependency ratio, which includes those ages 18 and below and 60 and above. The dependency ratio is projected to increase from 74 to 85 between 2020 and 2050. This places an enormous burden on the working class (Administration for Community Living, n.d.). It addition to this burden, the elderly population has been...
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... * The Emerging technology means current scientific research in technology to imagine how to live in future. * The one of the most important company Bio Viva USA, had done an experiment to treat a person with gene therapy to reverse biological aging, using a combination of two therapies developed and applied outside the United States of America. * Testing and research on these therapies is continuing in Bio Viva’s affiliated labs worldwide. * We should spend many days thinking, speaking and writing about the future, to find out the what are the new theories are coming out in this world. The one of the famous writer Warsaw was speaking at an Innovation Conference, in London speaking at a Global Leadership Summit, which was being interviewed by the Discovery Channel to find out, whatever the situation, I have one singular mission. I want you to think about the future. * The change in our lives, our economy and business to think about the future now. * One of most outgoing emerging technology is age reversal. Age Reversal It’s an extra ordinarily expensive, complex and risky for the people who want to turn back the clock. Actually according to nature scientific reports, it has already reversed aging in human cell by turning off and tuning on the new technology raising nuclear NAD+ (the compound responsible for communication between the nucleus and mitrocondise in your cells). * Old mice reverse metabolic dysfunction to give a compound called...
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