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Healthy People 2020 Healthy People 2020 was launched on December 2, 2010 by the government of the United States with a set of ambitious, yet achievable, 10-year agenda for improving the Nation’s health. Healthy People 2020 is the result of a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of individuals and organizations. It is a science-based, 10-year national objective for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across communities and sectors , empower individuals toward making informed health decisions and to measure the impact of prevention activities. The vision of healthy people 2020 is to have …show more content…

Working with the elderly is viewed as routine, boring and depressing. These negative attitudes that are held by health care providers will ender this challenging and potentially rewarding area of service and our elderly will suffer. (pg. 5) According to the article Attitudes towards caring for older people in Scotland,Sweden and the United States by Angela Kydd etal which states that the findings based on survey conducted in these three countries suggest that practice environments, coupled with the attitudes of other professionals towards those who work with older people, have an influence on attitudes. In general, working conditions in care of older people are not conducive to recruiting and retaining staff. On the whole, there is a lack of career advancement in care of the older person. Other healthcare professionals do not seem to appreciate that care of the older person is a highly skilled specialty. Poor environments with substandard care have a negative effect on patients and staff. It also found that found that students had positive attitudes about working in older people’s services until they undertook a placement in such facilities. Limited Medicare and private insurance for long-term care in the US, inadequate salaries and staff and a lack of respect towards those caring for older people, particularly but not only in long-term care facilities, significantly limit the ability to provide high quality care (Touhy and Jett 2012) and negatively affect job

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