Case Study: Canadian Association For Retired Persons

I have identified the aging population (greater than 55 years of age) in Chatham/Kent, Ontario (in a community I am familiar and work within); a population on the rise and with minimal government and Ministry of Health support that enables seniors to maintain quality of life,

The old people have very different consuming structures and needs. For example, they prefer golf over vigorous sports such as tennis and hockey. They also like walking, gardening more than young people do. They also need health and pharma cares. This generation has longer life-span, they were at their peak of earning before retirement and have larger discretionary income to spend. The baby boomer market is full of chances that are extremely profitable. The old people are more concern about their health condition, therefore nutritional/dietary consulting, massage, personal training, and fitness instruction such as yoga, tai-chi could be possible opportunities for profits. The baby boomers also have desires to visit and experience new places and lifestyle, they will need specialty tour provider and travel agents; and they might want to improve the quality of their lives, so they will spend money on redecorating houses, buying artworks, indulge in luxuries, interior decorating and high-end interior renovations are all in

There is diversity among all Canadian, hence there is differences among the aging population. Not all seniors are aging well and have the appropriate programs and services to meet their needs. Some seniors are victims of abuse and some are living in isolation and poverty. Some seniors suffer from chronic illness and other socio-economic factors limit the amount of money they can put away for retirement. Hence these middle and low income elderly retirees will have to depend mainly on the pension plan that is offered between the age of 60- 65. The age of 60-65 is regarded in Canada as the age of retirement. This paper will focus mainly on the disadvantaged older populations. The disadvantaged older populations are those who are currently

Things such as food, energy bill, gasoline, mortgage and rent consume a large amount of seniors

Fit Adult Care Home LLC is a residential care home located in the beautiful city of Gresham, Oregon, which is Multnomah County. Our historic community is the fourth largest in the state with wonderful restaurants and shops. Gresham is a wonderful place to live with lots of events and activities for family and friends to enjoy when visiting.

In just Sacramento alone, for one single senior, their income is only $11,400. They can’t get stuff needed with such little money, and can’t pay for medical bills either, because as you get older of course health deteriorates. Sacramento has about 520,000 Seniors and 28,000 of those Seniors are considered poor. Another crazy fact is most seniors in poverty are women, single women. Those Seniors living in poverty don’t have any control of the costs of food, housing costs or prescriptions that may be needed which makes it hard when there is only one source of income coming in. It is a strict budget. Elders don’t want to have to rely on their children because they don’t want to be a burden. Elders are 20% below the normal threshold, which $16,000 annually, and this is because of the high cost of living, i.e; health care and housing. A single adult with mortgage in San Jose, California is about $16,500, which is about $5,300 higher than the official poverty threshold. According to the KFF 28% of elder Hispanics, 22% of elder Black/ African Americans, 41% of elder Whites and the other 9% of elders lived in poverty in 2013, now, being 2016, that number has risen. In 2013, the KFF found that with increased age, came increased poverty. They also found that the poverty rate was higher for women than men at the age of 65 and that poverty was higher in Hispanics/ Latinos and Blacks/ African Americans rather than White

With the aging society in America means that there will be larger number of older people than young people. As a result of this fewer people will have to pay taxes to support public necessities and there will be fewer young people to provide services for the elders. This will also highly affect the health care in America because many seniors will have a chronic illness and there will be a shortage of healthcare workers to assist them. This will affect retirement because retirement income is made up of welfare payments, savings, and public and private pensions. Most publicly financed retirement pensions are funded by programs or most commonly know, social security. Social security is a universal income support program for elders and is usually

The number one concern of governments is to ensure that they stay in office. In order to do this, they must secure votes. A government who is looking at voter turnout statistics will notice that individuals of older generations are significantly more likely to vote than those of younger generations (The aforementioned 70% vs. >50%). This means that a government most interested in securing votes and support for the next election will look to do so from the largest voter base. In other words, the government will take into consideration the wants and needs of the aging members of the population before the rest of the population. This may cause more government emphasis on securing a better pension plans (CPP, OAS, or GIS), better health care for seniors (as will be discussed later on), and on other issues which are important to this population. For instance, in 2009, OAS (Old Age Security) cost $27.1 billion, and GIS (Guaranteed Income Supplement) cost $7.7 billion. (http://www.parl.gc.ca/content/lop/researchpublications/cei-07-e.htm) This major government emphasis on the needs of the baby boomers costs Canada money that may’ve been used in a more productive way to benefit the entire nation, such as improving our degrading infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.)

Recently, Statistic Canada has point out “Seniors are projected to become more numerous than children in Canada by 2017 --- a milestone in the country’s history.” (Statistics Canada, 2016) To discuss more in depth, according to the data collected from Statistic Canada, there is a post-war baby boom in 1950s, afterwards, there has been a steady decline in fertility. The median age in Canada was 27.2 in 1956 and climbed to 39.5 in 2006 (Statistics Canada, 2016). With the decrease in fertility and mortality, the problem of aging population in Canada occurs. In present time, those great number of baby boomers are now leave to workforce and begin to retire. It results in the rise of Canada’s elderly dependency ration. (National Seniors Council(Canada), 2011) For elders, the performance in many physical and mental tasks tend to decline with age, which

The health sector in Canada has experienced a lot of challenges regarding to the seniors who are increasingly coming into being. This has posed a challenge to the Canadian health sector in general, although through proper health strategies the number has posed no challenge to the Canadian government so far. Provisionally, the health sector has taken a different approach in ensuring that the old aged are taken care of appropriately. The analysis of the different provinces strategies is therefore important in ensuring that the sustainability of the old aged population is achieved. According to the national statistics in Canada in 2011, the population of seniors who are aged 65 years and above was 153,705. Nova Cotia had the highest number of seniors totaling 16.5% of the population with Saskatchewan following with a percentage of 14.87%. However, by 2036, it is expected that the Newfoundland and Labrador will have the highest proportion of seniors.

In the article “Don’t Seniors Deserve Better?” (MacQueen, K. 2011), MacQueen writes that many elderly patients in the midst of a medical crisis go straight to the hospital and stay there, tied to machines, consuming high-tech resources to little effect, growing weaker until the dim hope of a nursing home bed is made available. He also continues by saying that elderly citizens suffer a five percent functional decline for every day in hospital. This is a great issue; the fact being that Canada does not have enough long term facilities for the elderly population to stay in nursing homes is not being fair to the seniors of Canada. In fact, (MacQueen K. 2011) remarks, that each day in Canada, 7550 hospital beds are filled with the elderly who should be in long-term care nursing homes or in rehabilitation, yet they cannot get this option. Also, outside of the hospital, many elderly people run into the financial crisis of caring for their medical needs without the help of the Canadian Government. In the article “The unexpected costs of caring for your elderly parents” (Leong, M. 2014) Peter Silin says, “People think the government will pay for home care and nursing homes which they will, but that help is really limited.” In fact, “Seven in 10 caregivers were providing some sort of financial assistance to their parents or aging relatives, a 2012 BMO survey suggested, and half of these individuals said they had to adjust their own retirement plans as a result.” (Leong, M. 2014). With that, it costs $1,000 to keep a person in a hospital bed for a day, long term care costs $130 a day, and home care costs $55 dollars a day. (Simpson, C., Caissie M., Velji, K. 2015). After looking at the negative impacts of keeping our elderly in the hospitals, as MacQueen stated earlier, “elderly citizens suffer a five

The baby boomer generation adds a new sixty five year old every eight seconds and they have a lot to offer.  InterGENerosity provides both opportunity for employment and receiving in-home assistance with activities of daily living.  Older adults have the skills and

Canada, along with many other nations, is currently faced with an aging population. In Canada seniors are the fastest growing age group and make more then half of the population. And the numbers of older adults are higher in rural areas than in urban areas (Menec et al., 2015). Rural communities exist throughout Canada where there are large aging populations and higher number of children, but there are fewer working individuals as compared to urban communities (Menec et al., 2015). Many rural areas are aging more quickly than its urban counterparts as many choose to move to a rural community for the slow pace of life, attractive scenery and smaller community areas (Spina & Menec, 2015, Menec et al., 2015). Rural seniors challenged with issue

Long-term care organizations provide twenty-four hour around the clock care to seniors that are unable to function independently (“Government of Canada,” 2016). One of the strengths of providing LTC within the community is that they are responsive to seniors changes in health across various life stages (Bravo, Wals, Dubois, Charpentier, 1999). Health care professionals can contribute towards enhancing the quality of care by continuously following up with the residents as well as, collaborating with other health professionals that are involved in administering care to the resident such as nurses, social workers, physicians and anyone else involved in delivering their care (Chaplin, 2017). However, monitoring residents health and service delivery

Baby boomers are facing many issues as their parent’s age and need assistance in order to maximize their independent lifestyles.