Should Hospitals or Long-Term Care Facilities be Allowed to Make Major Decisions for Older Adult Individuals?

Some legal and regulatory concerns are the decrease in long-term care cost due to reduction of reimbursement. Another concern is the quality of care within facilities such as nursing homes. Ethical concerns are addressing the end-of-life issues and how the financing will work and allocating organ donations when they are already in limited supply. Social concerns are the environment in which someone lives can affect the delivery of care and also their income.

In conclusion, after reading this report, I have deep understanding of human rights of older adults. As a professional society, it can impact people’s attitude towards the elderly and also change the quality of life for old people in

Professional people have to deal with senior adults as a special population and intervene to prevent and protect them from getting abused. Furthermore, the researchers discuss the ways to recognize the abusers by absorbing how complex or flexible the relationship between the caregivers and the victims and by knowing the caregivers’ personal issues as stress, which may lead to the abuse (Gorbien & Eisenstein, 2005). People who take care of elderly have to provide great attention to these vulnerable people and being aware of all the circumstances that around them whether relationship problems, illness problem as identifying dementia at an early stage, and promoting home service Monod (2013). All of these examples may prevent elder abuse.

There is a great gap in understanding elder abuse prevention irrespective of the severity of the matter (Pillemer, Burnes, Riffin & Lachs, 2016). Additionally there are no cost-effective programs implemented to promote elder abuse intervention. However, in understanding the seriousness of the matter, any intervention method currently available calls for all the community members, including the general population and professionals to work together in preventing the prevailing problem. There are proposed frameworks that can mitigate the issue. The first method is the caregiver interventions which offer services to alleviate the burden of taking care of the elderly like in meal preparation and housekeeping (Pillemer, Burnes, Riffin & Lachs, 2016). The other system aims helping individuals vulnerable to financial abuse and these are known as money management programs which help with paying bills and paying for homecare (Pillemer, Burnes, Riffin & Lachs, 2016). Emergency shelter is also a proposed framework that offers a home to the abused individuals thus providing a safe haven to the victims (Pillemer, Burnes, Riffin & Lachs, 2016). Despite of inadequate literature on interventions for elder abuse, it is important that the health care practitioners develop a system that can promote prevention and treatment methods as it is their role to educate the society on what needs to be

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.

Describe the social, political, economic, cultural values and/or ideology that form the basis for the author’s perspectives; The value and or ideology that form the basis for the authors’ perspective is that the government makes families of elderly and the elderly individuals themselves are more dependent on government institutions rather than government aiding families to be more reliable in taking care of aging family member. Liberty of choice making verses the limiting choice making the authors state that “Government has begun to consider offering formal services on an as-needed basis rather than as an all-or-nothing package. Several members of Congress, for example, are sponsoring legislation to expand the options for in-home care available to older adults and their families (Smyer&Plantz).” And finally government

In this case, the aging parents are not considered part of the nuclear family. So they don’t see it as their duty to personally take care of their aging parents instead they put them in nursing homes. Therefore in America, the system takes care of older people (PBS, n. d.), which they believe it is the best way to take care of the elderly. However, for Asian elderly immigrants, this might not be the best option since for the family members, their concerns around cultural values may not being respected, and there are questions language barriers and the sense of moral obligation. This revolves around the concept of filial duties (PBS, n. d.).

4. Older adults face a lot of change due to the fact that some are unable to do a lot of things they are used to. Due to this loss of ability and freedom, ethical and legal issues arise. One problem the elderly population face is Ageism. In the book Global Health Care: Issues and Policies, by Carol Holtz, ageism is defined as “a process of systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people because they are old (Holtz, 2013).” Ageism can cause abuse, neglect, isolation, and a lack of listening or respect towards the elderly population. Elder abuse is a tremendous problem that is seen throughout many area of the world. In fact, in the U.S. 550,000 elderly individuals experience abuse in a variety of settings. Although there are many laws

Elders go through a lot during their aging process from the beginning of sore muscles to increasing health issues, and sometimes have an incident to where they are put into a facility temporarily. When an older adult is almost ready to leave a rehabilitation center, from their traumatic experience, they might require a great deal of assistance from a caretaker, depending on how much they have been hurt by a stroke or another serious issue, nevertheless the care-taker must be willing to take care of the elder at all cost, most commonly a family member such as an aunt or a child, who is willing to devote their time and effort to the elder. However, when the older American does go home after being away for a while, the caregiver's true intentions are never really known until after a few months. One may think that the family member is going to be supportive and help the elderly as much as possible

Experiences with older Adults In this paper I will be talking about my experience with the older generation. I have many personal experiences of my own with the older generation at home and from working at a nursing home. In my paper I will be talking about three main points, my experience with older people at home, older people at work and what I know about aging. First, of all I live at home with my grandparents, who are both in their late sixties. While living back at home with my grandparents I’ve noticed many different aging problems with them, such as hearing loss, vision loss, and memory loss.

Often when people think of older adults, there is a stereotype that all or most of them are disabled and should live in a long term care facility where they can get the appropriate assistance. Over the years, younger adults with disabilities have demanded accommodations in the community so they could live independently and in the least restrictive environment possible (Chapin and Cox, 2001). Chapin and Cox (2001) go on to say that often elders with disabilities no more severe then those younger adults living in the community, are found living in nursing facilities. I think that every time an older parent becomes more frail and is automatically placed in a nursing home or assisted living there are many more problems being created then solved. When this happens then it’s very likely that no one is asking these adults how they managed to stay at home so long without any problems.

Lack of educated about the elderly can be a problem if a nurse or those making the policies do not understand how the elderly evolve. A specialist on gerontology must be consulted to ensure thing are assigned to the appropriate quarters. Nurses stay informed within their profession to be current in the area of practice as an ethical duty (Ludwick, & Silva,

United States is the most developed country in the world with compliments on excellent services for everyone from children to senior. Nursing facility is a typical example of American services with its huge of amount of care facility settings for elderly: 16,639 nursing homes and 52,681 board and care homes with more than 3,000,000 beds in total. (NORS, 2010) (ncea.aoa.gov) The growth of various facility settings satisfy the need of American adult children about new caring places for their old parents, especially when the older population has been increasing: “They represented 12.9% of the U.S. population, about one in every eight Americans.”(aoa.acl.gov) However, the organization of facility settings seems out of control since the elder abuse happening at an alarming rate in different type of settings with different form of abuse such as physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect. Elder abuse is a serious problem yet seems to be disregarded. It damages elder physical and mental health gravely. Therefore, it demands people’s actions to cease it as children abuse and other criminations.

Despite the medical advances, the debilitating conditions associated with aging have remained, are and expected to exist among the growing elderly population in the future. (Williams, 2003). Family members, most of which who are women, are the providers of direct care to and aging older adult. With a growing population of elderly that becomes increasingly dependent as a result of the natural life process, there has been focused attention of the social well-being for caregivers of the elderly.

The care of the elderly population is growing issue in countless modernized countries. This is a topic that people from across the world are looking into, and hoping to better the lives of those effected. “Aging isn’t just a biological process — it’s also very much a HYPERLINK "http://isdpr.org/isdpr/publication/journal/25/1996-07-25-01-03.pdf"cultural one.” ( HYPERLINK "http://www.huffingtonpost.com"www.huffingtonpost.com) This paper will discuss the different aspects of a community that effects the lifestyle of the elderly community in different parts of the world. Religion, tradition, and law are three important influences on the treatment of this community of people.