The humanity of aging is a concept sometimes hard to grasp. Understanding why we are the way we are can be challenging and aging, even so much more. Taking care of the physical body and ignoring the mind, heart and soul can be deadly. When faced with sickness and the challenges of life, mental health is just as important as physical health. Your faith or belief system will be challenged and a positive outlook on life and health is imperative. In this paper I will be analyzing my personal interview with Mr. O, a 75-year-old Cuban immigrant. He is a resilient senior who has overcome a language barrier, family issues, diseases, financial insecurities and the loss of his first spouse. During his interview, we discussed his childhood, …show more content…
When Mr. O was young, his family was very active in his community. He was a happy, well-educated child and was considered wealthy to many. When he became an adult, he got married and was not able to feely express himself in his country without the fear of going to prison. He had family members living in Miami so when the opportunity came during the Cuban Exodus of 1980, he immigrated to the United States. This was a significant turning point in his life. He was in his late twenties and excited for the opportunity to come to America but he quickly realized that things would not be easy. The first large obstacle he faced was a language barrier. It was difficult for him to get a job so they stayed with family members until he was able to save enough money to rent his own apartment with his family. He also had family members back in Cuba who were depending on him financially. He explained that for many immigrants, taking care of family comes first and because many end up in low paying jobs, finding time to go to school is usually not a priority. According to Dumez …show more content…
If allowed to grow, they can become disfiguring and deadly. Overexposure over a lifetime to ultraviolet light can cause Squamous Cell Carcinoma. It can occur in different areas of the body, such as face, lip, scalp, neck hands and arms. The skin in these areas will show signs of sun damage with pigments, age spots, freckles and broken vesicles. (Skin Cancer Foundation, n.d.). He is thankful for having access to medical care because it helped him to get the care he needed expeditiously. He was screened early and caught the diagnosis of ear cancer before the disease could spread. The doctor removed his entire right ear to make sure they got all the cancer. He said that although he misses his ear, things could have been a lot worse and having access to medical care helped him to address the issue. Having surgery corrected the problem and prevented his health from declining. After Mr. O went into remission, he developed a hernia that was very painful. He went into surgery and explained that the hernia was more painful than the cancer and kept him in the hospital for a longer period of time. When I asked him how is life now? He explained that surviving on a day-to-day basis
hardship that he couldn’t be accepted by the natives no matter how long he has been in there. He
pneumonia and was dying. The journey was slow because of his illness and he did not want to risk trying
friends, other hobbies, and the prime of his career. Sitting down with Chad, we dug deep into his
Another major hardship that was faced by most immigrants was the way that they were treated. Often times they were treated like second-class citizens and were thought to be inferior to the natural born citizens. They also seemed to only be able to hold jobs that no one else really wanted to do, for very low wages. Most of the time people would
When he was growing up his father was a general lawyer and his grandfather was also a general lawyer. He realized then that he didn’t want to beocme a lawyer like his father meanwhile, his mother was a teacher and when he went to unniversity of illinois to figure out what he wanted to do when he was growing up. He got his bacherlors in psychology and he realize that he didn’t want to be psycologist so in the Peace Core he realized that he wanted to become a social worker, he went back to school in illonois and get his masters and Doctortal degree in social work, he got his degreee in gerontology the study of aging. He was fond of his personal values aligned with the values of the
The Shouldice Hospital Limited case consists of the story of an Ontario farm boy who grew up to significantly impact the lives of thousands of hernia patients. Dr. Earle Shouldice grew up to become a prominent lecturer at the University of Toronto, ran a private medical and surgical practice, and was a successful researcher (Heskett, 2003, p. 1). He performed an
Although some of his brothers and sisters had already moved out and began families of their own, his mother was left to support eight children with no benefits from any Mexican welfare agency or life insurance policies. The remaining family members decided the only way enough money could be made to support them was for some one to go to work in America. With no "papers" or legal documents one of Mario’s brothers made his way to Los Angeles, California. He found a job working in a garment factory that historically hired undocumented workers at low wages. At that point his family became one of the recipients of the $5 billion dollars of remittances that Mexicans received in 1991 according to the chart presented in the article; Remittances, US Latino Communities, and Development in Latin American Countries in Migration World News Vol. 28(5) in 2000, written by B. Lindsay Lowell, Rodolfo de la Garza and Mike Hogg.
when he had an unexpected “lung hemorrhage, leaving his thirteen year old son as head
In 1959, the revolt in Cuba had many affluent upper or middle-classed citizens fleeing their country for the United States migrating to Miami, FL primarily. The next wave of Cuban immigrants begins arriving in the United States during the cold war. In the beginning, the United States graciously accepted Cuban immigrants. The immigrants immediately started receiving social security benefits, money, permanent legal residency after being in the country one year and allowed to establish businesses, re-qualify for their professional credentials (Stepick, A., & Carol, D. S., 2009). The United States government provided substantially to its new citizens who allowed them to achieve economically and put them in local politics. For 20 years Cuban immigrants
When JHumpa migrated to the united state he was already face with problem first his parents couldn’t speak English so they had to work minmim wage and hardly couldn’t communicate so he
By then, his hearing deteriorated from “hearing a slight buzzing sound” to being completely deaf. The cause for his deafness is still unknown, however theories range from “syphilis to the composer’s habit of dunking his head in cold water whenever he was tired, among many others” (todayifoundout.com). It was discovered after his death that he suffered from a distended inner ear, also known as Meniere's disease, a disorder of the inner ear which causes episodes of vertigo, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), a feeling of fullness or pressure in the ear, and fluctuating hearing loss.
broken family. Since his folks passed on when he was youthful, he went to live with
pleuritis. At the point when the agony and trouble of breathing completely left him, and his family were
He underwent cyanotic (he was blue from lack of oxygen) on the way to the clinic and died while still in
According to the statistics from the Administration on Aging, the U.S. population aged 65 years and older numbered 46.2 million in 2014 (the latest year for which data is available), which composed of 14.5% of the U.S. population. This data show that persons 65 years or older are expected to grow to be 21.7% of the population by 2040 (CITATION). With the growth of the aging population, there has been increasing attentions on how older people can age well, which lead to discussions of understanding of the “successful aging” among gerontologists. Rowe and Kahn (1997) defined successful aging as including three main components low probability of disease and disease-related disability, high cognitive and physical functional capacity, and active