Recognize the myths about aging and negative attitudes about older adults. Start challenging the myths. There are many erroneous beliefs in our society –e.g. that older adults’ lives are less valuable and older adults are less deserving of having their rights respected; that older adults feel emotional pain less or do not have sexual feelings; or that older adults are largely responsible for growing health care or other social costs. Recognize that a label like “elderly” or “seniors” tells us little about what to expect from a person.
Negative stereotypes can have harmful consequences for the quality of life of older adults and can also result in a major loss to society. With increases in life expectancy as well as reduced infirmity, many adults are aging well, but negative stereotypes of aging may put society at risk for losing the contributions of these vital and knowledgeable people. The potential individual and social effects underscore the need to understand the content of aging stereotypes in terms of their accuracy and applications. It is especially important to understand how negative stereotypes exacerbate poor performance in areas in which decline is real. That is, beliefs that memory is bad in old age can reduce motivation when increased motivation is needed
Ageism has become a real problem in today’s society. It causes problems in the workforce. Elderly people have problems finding jobs and also keeping jobs. Some people find it a waste of time to let he elderly people work with or for them. They also find them sometimes useless.
In my opinion, infants/young children and the elderly would be most affected by any of these disasters due to immobility issues and chronic health diseases affecting the elderly including; pulmonary/cardiovascular, stroke, impaired senses and musculoskeletal challenges. The only effects I can think of that may be a challenge for ethnic/racial minorities are possible language barriers which may delay a quick response due to not understanding the danger if they do not speak English and interpreters are
Discrimination is another one that caused distrust in the health care system. African Americans felt that they were being looked down upon if they were seeing a Caucasian doctor, as if the doctor could care less what was wrong with them. Lastly, you have language barriers that cause distrust in the health care system. With the United States being a huge melting pot, we have lots of people from different cultures which speak different languages. This makes it difficult for the immigrants to get health care here in the United States because they have difficulty explaining what was wrong and how they were feeling.
Explain how values, beliefs and misunderstandings about dementia can affect attitudes towards an individual People with dementia face widespread discrimination for a number of reasons. There remains significant misunderstanding about and stigma attached to dementia that manifests itself in widespread discriminatory attitudes. [ Because most people with dementia are over the age of 65, they can also face issues of age discrimination. People with dementia are also more at risk of discrimination and infringements of their human rights because they may not have the capacity to challenge abuses of their human rights or to report what has occurred. This means that many people with dementia and their carers face a poorer quality of life than the general population.
Position Paper PSYCH 500 March 11, 2013 Angella Eanes Position Paper Is retirement always a good experience? No, retirement is not always a good experience for everyone. Retirement involves an individual giving up roles that are usually vital to their identity and their self esteem (Berk, 2010). The process of retirement can be a very stressful process and it can contribute to the decline in the physical health and the mental health of an individual (Berk, 2010). With retirement come concerns about finances, concerns about mental health and concerns about physical health (McGarry, 2004).
P4 Explain two theories of ageing When people gradually age, they begin getting affected by different life factors for example a loved one’s death or them developing an illness. How the individual is affected by these life factors depends on their attitude and beliefs. For example if the individual is a person with a positive outlook on life, he/she will maintain this attitude even if they are going through pain with having a serious illness. On the other hand someone who always is negative towards life will become depressed. Different theorists have different ideas on how people respond to ageing.
3. The elderly are often small and weak. ----- Describe factors that may contribute to an individual being more vulnerable to abuse In order to answer your question perhaps we should first define what abuse is, Abuse is about a person inappropriately using their power over another individual Abuse is treating someone with disrespect in a way which significantly affects the individual's quality of life. Abuse is the control by a person of an individual using fear, violence, or intimidation. Abuse is the mistreatment by any person that violates an individual's human and civil rights.
The elderly group is the group that I would wish to advocate on. The elderly are more likely than younger groups to be afflicted with multiple health problems, thus creating a synergistic effect in increasing their degree of emotional despair. This problem is particularly acute in nursing home settings, which have increasingly become the dumping ground for our mentally ill elderly. The degree of mental illness coupled with the virtual absence of significant mental health treatment in nursing homes represents one of the most neglected problems in the field of mental health services in this country. One point that I wish to advocate are that the elderly should be carefully watched so that they will take their medication correctly and on time.