Healthy Aging: Article Analysis

The Minnesota Department of Health defines healthy aging as the development and maintenance of optimal mental, social and physical well-being and function in older adults. States all around the country are becoming more involved in developing policies to keep the aging population healthy as legislators recognize that more than two-thirds of current health care costs are for treating chronic illnesses among older Americans. In Florida, one such initiative is The Health and Wellness Promotion Program that has been implemented by the Department of Elder Affairs to provide health education to the elderly as well as provide preventative screening programs. Through SAGE I had the opportunity to visit my mentor with my team and discuss her ideology on health aging and how that has evolved for her through her experiences with health care, social programs and her wider community. This discourse has allowed me to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the aging process and the different aspects of life that come together to foster healthy aging.

Our culture likes to ignore that everyone has sex for pleasure in some form or fashion. Created and preached has been a hard-fast narrative that sex only equals intercourse, and intercourse is only reserved for procreation or for the enjoyment of the young and beautiful, which very quickly begins to limit our understanding of the needs of those not using or falling into these realms, young or old. Consider that the young will age, the beauty will fade and procreation not forever possible. Things we cannot control will happen physically, causing our bodies to not be able to operate in ways that we once enjoyed, but that should not make us abstinent against our will. While some natural physical

The debate topic centered on what is more important in aging mental or physical health. On one side of the debate is the premise that mental health is the key factor in aging successful. The opposing side holds that physical health is the key factor. Both arguments confirm that the relationship is reciprocal but they differ in regards to which one occurs first. That is, does mental health cause physical decline or vice versa.

“The term ‘aging out’ refers to children within a state’s foster care system who are still in the system upon reaching the age of majority or when they have graduated from high school” (Craft, 2017, Aging Out). Many of these children “have not found permanency with an adoptive family … or they have not been able to return to their biological parents” (Craft, 2017, Aging Out). A child typically ages out at 18 years, “but some states have extended services beyond this age because so many young adults are just not ready to be thrust out into the world on their own at such a young age” (Craft, 2017, Aging Out). If a foster parent chooses to continue parenting the foster child once they have aged out of the system, they are able to as long as the foster youth is okay with this. If an individual continues fostering a child, they will no longer receive money from the state.

The article Aging Well: Facing the Fact of Mortality by Michael Friedman was very informative. Mr. Friedman used this article as a way to show today’s society on the proper way to face death, is that there is difficulty accepting death and mortality. According to Mr. Friedman, “Death is morbid, but coming to terms with it is a key developmental challenge of old age and a major challenge for our health and mental health systems”. Using this quote, it can be interpreted that coming to terms with death and taking practical steps to prepare for the inevitable should give comfort. The article lists two practical steps that we should take. Whether death is on our minds or not, we must first complete legal advance directives that will hopefully assure

In 2006, a study by Skinner and Rosenberg, as cited in Bascu et al., (2012) suggested that Canadian government hasn’t been able to address the challenges faced by rural seniors. So as more elderly people move to these locales, there are concerns about whether the communities can handle the needs of this vulnerable populace. The “age-friendliness” concept initiated by World Health Organization and Public Health of Canada also highlight the needs of the older people in rural communities given the high number of older people rural areas in a disadvantaged state (Spina & Menec, 2015). Thus, specific social situations exist for this demographic which will be discussed herein with a focus on factors such as, physical environment, accessibility to resources social isolation and health

The purpose of this report is to critically analyse key areas of practice with regard to the Healthy Living for Seniors Program (HLSP) from the perspective of a volunteer. Uniting Care Aging is a non-profit and non-government organisation; and a ministry of the Uniting Church that provides, government, church and client funded aged care services across Australia especially for Australians who are older and vulnerable. The program workers facilitate the group five days a week between 10am-3pm. The programs’ field of practice is ‘Aging’ and its major function is to link the individual, group, family or community with needed resources. Welfare practitioner’s in this program empower people and promote social justice, safety, well-being, and enhance

As a humain being, it’s in our nature to die one day. To avoide the pain of loosing someone and to live longer, Google CEO Larry Page annouced his most audacious project : pursue solutions against aging by hoping to cure death. I think it’s a really bold idea that will comes with a lot of consequences hard to handle. We are not prepare for that and I will explain belong why and what are some of the possibly consequences.

I believe that our society will face an increasing scarcity of resources as the growth in the older population rises. My reasoning is that as our older population grows, the number of people consuming scarce resources but not contributing to their production will grow with them. Given this scenario, we will see decreases in available food, water, and living space. Our textbook supports my opinion in various ways. For example, the textbook proposes a question that is fairly similar to mine and it is, “Will there be enough young people to care for and financially support the growing number of elderly citizens?” (Carl, Pg. 264) This question is directly related to the notion that I put forth previously. As the number of elderly grow, and the birth rate slows down, who will be taking care of those too old to work?

Many researchers have shifted the focus of aging research from the older generation to a process of greater human development throughout the course of their life. This point of view underscores an unmistakable yet perfect conceptualization of the productive aging:

Nursing strategies to promote healthy aging in the presence of normal age-related changes would be to adapt to the gerontological age group needs whatever they may be. What comes to mind after reading our text is making sure the patients can see what ever paperwork we give them because their vision usually is decreased or impaired the older they get. The nurse “in the hospital or nursing home, could use some means to identify patients who are visually impaired and include visual impairment in their plan of care" (Touhy, 2016, p.138).

Aging can be a scary thing for many individuals. Aging can bring on fears of losing quality of life, becoming ill or disabled, losing mental capabilities, and not being able to care for one’s self, and many other issues. Some of these issues can be addressed by changing ways of thinking or finding new ways to do old things. The article THE POTENTIAL OF OLDER ADULTS TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY QUALITY OF LIFE: LINKS BETWEEN POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVE AGING can give people hope that some aspects of aging and quality of life are in the control of the individual who is aging.

1. In case you did not have any specific topic of aging or physical activity, for the next quarter registration, I would recommend you to review all of the topics that you may interest to develop a dissertation. Then, connect all courses to one aim is that the topic of your interested. For example, if you are interested in physical activity you may focus on exercise in older adults. Then, try to connect exercise to all courses: methodology, philosophy and so on. Thus, in the methodology, you may use exercise into every research methodology. Also, as the philosophy as well. This strategy is beneficial for me, and I think it will work for you too if you have some topic in your mind.

As a 25-year-old adult, consider myself on the younger spectrum as far as biological age. However, I am being reminded daily that I am getting older. I no longer can recover from a workout as rapidly as I used to, I require more sleep after a night of staying up late, there are no more “all nighters”, and I have recently developed pain in my joints and spine. As you may have noticed, all the reasons I have listed above seem obviously negative. This is exactly what I am hoping to get out of this class. A positive perspective of the aging process. I have noticed when I pay attention to the physical aging process my body undergoes; my brain is focused on the negative changes and instead should be focusing on what my age has given me over the years. I am hoping, through taking this class, I will expand my knowledge tremendously on the aging process and begin to switch my way of thinking to a more positive one and begin living a better quality of life as the years pass.

Humanity has come a long way as we evolve and adapt to the changing environment. Through the years, we have managed to overcome several limitations, which in the past were nothing more than dreams. We succeeded in landing on the moon and communicating over long distance, yet there are still some boundaries we have yet to cross despite our best effort. Aging is an inevitable process of nature. While we cannot stop the ticking clock in our body, we have made it possible for aging to be delayed and relieved to a great extent through advance technology and modern governance. High-tech equipments and medications are available for the treatments of more illnesses as our understanding of medicine improves and governments nowadays are doing