Avalon Character Analysis

The challenge America now faces is the number of people reaching retirement will double in number by 2030, and the U.S. population will increase almost 20 percent ("Our Aging Nation," 2015). The goal is for the elderly to maintain and live with independence and dignity, as well as, provide a wide range of professional health and social service expertise, home care, and residential support and services that will be needed ("Our Aging Nation," 2015). Since the number of caregivers needed for this population will not be able to meet the demands other resolutions are considered necessary.

Travis Ruhland’s book, Caring for Kait, ties into the discussion of adult development and aging that we have been having in this course well. Though this book’s focus, Kaitlyn, did not get the chance to live life into old age, there are still relevant themes that can be found in the narration of her battle with cancer. I will examine themes related to aging that I found in her husband’s narration of her battle with cancer: memory changes, feelings of control and lack thereof, and spirituality.

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

Cindy Foster is an 83-year-old white female who is seeking services to cope with recent environmental, psychological, and physical changes. She requires assistance with daily living and currently resides with her daughter in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Cindy is a widow and has two children, a son and a daughter, who both live in Campbellsville. She is retired from previous part-time employment, and currently receives public assistance through social security, Medicaid and Medicare. Cindy attends a daily Alzheimer 's respite care facility in Campbellsville, where she has also developed a significant relationship with one of the male clients.

I vividly remember that chilly night in March as I walked out of Fifer, the building my father now calls home, for the first time. I had goosebumps, but they were not from the cold I felt hit my skin. Instead, they were from the sickness in my stomach. As I got in the car, I began to cry and had to stop myself from running back inside. My entire world had turned upside-down. How could I go home without my father? How could I leave him in a nursing home, a place where he was too young and mentally fit to be confined? I had to fight the feeling that he didn’t belong. I had to remind myself of why he chose to be there, and I hated it.

We can’t purport to have a national goal to “eliminate health disparities” and continue to accept the social inequities that come from such a major gap in wealth. If we hope to solve the pressing issues of eldercare, these inequities must be addressed head on now and in the future. Otherwise, those who are caregivers now may not have access to the care they will need in the future.

The long-term healthcare system has an infrastructure that is unfriendly and difficulty to navigate. With a growing number of frail older people living in the United States, the pressure to find a more affordable way to care for them will mount. Nearly 12 million people need some form of long-term care (LTC) and half are over age 65 (Wilber, 2014, Class Session 2). As mentioned in the article “Waiting in the Dark with Dad,” a large percentage of American healthcare costs fund medical procedures and medications to keep terminally ill people 65 and older alive (Lopez, 2014, p. 1). Steve Lopez experienced this with his 85-year-old father, Tony, who lived in a nursing home that was a place meant to keep his heart beating, but not actually improve his health and well-being. This is the harsh reality of the long-term care industry that many have faced, including experts in the field such as Dr. Robert Kane, author of It Shouldn’t Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care. Long-term services and supports (LTSS) are supposed to maximize the quality of care and the quality of life for the individual (Kane and West, 2005, p. 169). When that focus is lost, it is the responsibility of healthcare professionals, like myself, to bring that issue back to the forefront of policy making.

When presented with the word “elderly,” a twenty-year-old might begin to think of the joys of retirement when an older person has spent their life building a comfortable bank account; they then get to reward themselves by journeying around the world with their near and most dear companion. When reality sets in, that person may realize that a lot of today’s elderly are living in nursing homes or living week-by-week not knowing if they are going to be able to leave their hospital bed just to go relax in their recliner at home. While it is true that some elderly enjoy their last twenty or thirty years on earth, a lot of the elderly in America are struggling to hang on to life while being abused every day by healthcare workers or even loved ones. While many people have been working endlessly to put a stop to elder abuse, not everyone can say the same.

Caring for the elderly and disabled has always been a relevant issue among American’s; however, not until recently has it become a significant issue within society. Change has occurred in the past couple decade as the workforce dynamics have transitioned from the family based farm living to the inner city, college educated worker who follows opportunity. Decades ago it was common place to have an aging relative live with the family in a multi-generational home; however, that is no longer a practical option in many cases. Although this transitioning of society has created a new issue and that is providing care to those elderly or disabled members of society who cannot rely on the support of family

Leading up to the selected passage, the main character, Lanval, has experienced several mishaps in his life. Marie de France presents Lanval’s character to the audience as a disliked man. For instance, none of the kingdom men liked Lanval because they were jealous of his positive qualities (Puchner 1032). He was poor and did not know of a place to seek help (Puchner 1033). However, his luck changed for the better one day as he was lying down and relaxing along the riverbank.

I worked with a 97-year-old female patient admitted to our skilled nursing facility due to frequent falls at home and exacerbation of Congestive Heart Failure. She was born and brought up in a small town in Texas. Her husband was in navy when they moved to Alameda (California) during the second world war. Ms. Jones (Pseudonym) was a homemaker and took care of the family most of her life. She lived with her son and grandchildren. She was independent in basic activities of daily living, cooking, light household chores prior to hospitalization. She used to cook and bake until a few weeks ago when her condition started to deteriorate.

Give an example of both direct and indirect characterization in the story. (Cite your answers if giving a direct

I like the direction that this draft goes in. It explores the minds of mentally ill people, such as Alixander and Indigo. However, with each case they have different problems. I enjoy the childish nature that Indigo has, creating a contrasting trait from Alixander. He acts much more stable, but when examining his actions, his instability shows. Although Indigo needs to display this nature, I feel myself seeing her as an actual child instead of "a young woman" (1). I think a hint to illustrate her age will help me picture her as that age because I picture a child with an adult and I don't believe that's the intention. I also like how the reader are dropped in the present, but then Alixander tells the story. I feel as if the story should end

Grandpa is almost ninety-five and now resides in a nursing home. The leg he fractured forty years ago is too weak to carry his weight. His eyes are going bad. But to me he's still the big, strong man who used to take his grandchild in his arms and rock to

At the end of the story, Winterbourne tells his aunt that he has made a mistake and lived too long in Rome. Winterbourne’s biggest mistake was being taken in by the rude judgments of other people and allowing them to affect how he viewed and treated Daisy before her passing. If Winterbourne had continued to treat her the way he did before they went to Rome, she may not have been pushed by him into the arms of Giovanelli and ultimately died.