So many people want to be independent but this actually creates a problem, more seniors are relying on community facilities or retirement homes to assist them with their daily living. Another thing about seniors is that they want to stay in their homes but cannot be able to afford the mortgage or let along the up keep of a home. So a great number of seniors are having to turn to retirement homes or even assisted living facilities. I believe that another reason why the health care is facing this problem today is because a great number of family members do not have the patience to put up with their loved one so they send them to an assisted home or even a retirement center. Which is sad to me because an individual’s mom and dad raises them but when it comes to the time for them to take care of them they just ship them
UNIT 4222-656 Understand the factors affecting older people Outcome 1 1) As adults age, many changes occur: memory loss, bones and joints, eyes and ears, digestive and metabolic, urogenital, dental, skin and functional abilities problems. 2) Aging is inevitable and is in a sense a gradual loss of life functions. The process is unique and different for each individual. While for some aging means grey hair, few kilos or bad hearing, for others is a much more complex transformation, because the aging process brings social and emotional change and loss into their lives. Older relatives die, then loss of a spouse affects many.
Chantra Horton ACC281 Accounting Concepts for Health Care Professional The California Sutter Health Approach Mark Strictlett January 30, 2012 An increasing issue within the health care field is the inability to collect debt from the growing population of uninsured or underinsured patients. Health care organizations may be struggling to meet operational margins because the industry has never treated its customers like other retail- oriented sectors of the economy. Hospitals incur sixty billion dollars in bad debt annually because the typically collect only ten to twenty percent of a total uninsured patient balance after service. This is due to a number of reasons, including poor accounting practices, or a lack of patient information.
This is the stage which is called the end of life stage. Some people at this stage may not be able to talk. Some old people give up on life at this stage because they be highly dependent on others, they be stuck in a care home, their family probably rarely comes to see them and they be in a lot of pain. Attitudes Once you turn older your attitude changes. It changes towards your life, your family and towards the society.
When going through ageing, peripheral vision is decreased as the person may need to turn their head to see to the sides. The flexibility of the eye reduces and elderly people take more time to accommodate to changes in light. An elder person may have to give up on driving at nights and may have to place lights evenly around the room. When going through ageing the eye muscles and clouding of the lens degenerate. There are serious cases of vision impairments such as cataracts, glaucoma and blindness between 7% and 15% of older adults.
Through Medicare, the society is able to contribute to the elderly Medicare care indiscriminately. Through medicare, which also contributes to advancement in technology in medical field the life expeactancy for Americans, has been increased significantly. The old in the society play a fundamental role of giving guidance and shaping the morals of the young generation.
Poverty has increased due to a high unemployment rate, lower wages for many people, and a decreasing amount of public assistance benefits. Since the start of the recession, many people have lost their jobs and have been unable to find new employment or have been forced to work for wages far lower than they had previously been paid. In 1996, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, which provided cash assistance to poor families with children, was replaced with a grant program called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). This program has not been able to keep up with inflation causing a higher poverty level among the already poor which has resulted in families not being able to afford housing (“Why are People Homeless,”
The aging population: As the Baby Boomers come of (old) age, there are fewer workers paying into the Medicare program. These Baby Boomers are, of course, requiring more healthcare services, simply because of the volume of people. There’s particular strain on the parts of Medicare that pay for nursing homes. Fraud: Medicare is vulnerable to fraud because only 5% of its claims are audited, according to The Government Accountability Office. Medicaid Medicaid is for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources such as low-income adults and their children, and people with certain disabilities.
The marketing needs for this demographic are for more affordable health programs, tax credits and other programs designed to help offset the surmounting costs of long term care for the elderly. The need for continued care, financial stability and insurance coverage will continue to escalate because the general population that is aging will continue to grow. People in their 40’s and 50’s are starting to take care of aging parents and sometimes grandparents in addition to their own young families. There is definitely an increasing need for more services that will make the transition and quality of life easy and more comfortable for the people needing the additional care and the peace of mind that their loved ones are being well taken care of until they draw their last
In job seeking, older workers are viewed as posing liabilities, it is also a concern that they won’t know how to work the new office equipment such as computers or that their experience in the workplace is just too outdated. Between 2007 and 2010, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, saw a 17 percent increase in the number of age discrimination complaints. There are laws which protect discrimination in the workplace and just like any other prejudice there are laws that protect the elderly from discrimination. According to the Department of Labor, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, or ADEA, contains the most important regulations protecting older