The Problem Of Elderly People

Loneliness is a emotion that many people suffer from everyday. In “Why Personal Relationships Are Important” Charles Meadows notes, “A study of breast cancer patients found that those with fewer satisfying social connections experienced higher levels of depression, pain, and fatigue.” Due to those symptons, people seem to have fewer social connections because of these

P3: Explain ways in which health and social care workers support the independence and wellbeing of older people. M2: Assess ways in which health and social care workers support the independence and wellbeing of older people. D1: Evaluate ways in which the sectors work together to support the independence and wellbeing of older people. Doris has stayed connected with her friend Frieda who lives on her own independently but recently she has had a fall and she has been referred to the local authorities. P1& M2 When promoting independence and wellbeing in older people it has to be done in a way where the person feels that they are able to do what they are being asked to do and if they say that they don’t

The impact of loneliness on physical health can also be better understood by the study conducted by Uchino and colleagues (1996). They found that social individuals have lower blood pressure, better immunity and lower levels of stress hormones than the socially isolated people. In contrast another study described by Arthur 2006 demonstrated that it is not yet clear that group therapy or socialization can improve the secondary prevention of Coronary heart Disease. After considering all the studies and arguments by different authors it can be conclude that it is necessary to do more research on the impact of socialization on physical health of individuals.

Another effect is loneliness is not a matter of external conditions but rather more of a psychological state, which can cause neuroticism, or anxiety with due time. For example, John Cacioppo, the director of the center for cognitive and social neuroscience at the University of Chicago, says the epidemic of loneliness is affecting the basic functions of human physiology. And in one experiment, Cacioppo confirmed “The greater the proportion of online interactions, the lonelier you are.”

Reminiscing to 2010, when I was faced with my grandmother 's illness during the adolescent years in my life I knew that I had a passion to care for the elderly (aging) population. From this passion, it ignited a fire so strong that I pursue my certified nursing assistant certification to gain a better understanding of working with the elderly population. By doing so, it has been a great benefit to my life; aging is an inevitable experience that we all will go through during our life. It is important to ensure that our elderly individuals are still able to enjoy the best quality of life after retirement. However, as we age, there will be a lifestyle change that the aging population must encounter.

On a very sunny morning in May, delegates gathered at the beautiful Glamorgan Building in Cardiff. The day began with presentations from emerging researchers working on a diverse range of issues related to loneliness. These included presentations on the impact of driving cessation on loneliness (Amy Murray, Swansea University), Inclusion and Exclusion over the lifecourse of older people in rural areas in Wales (Bethan Winter Swansea University), the relationships between social

Loneliness raises levels of the circulating stress hormone cortisol and blood pressure, with one study showing that social isolation can push blood pressure up into the danger zone for heart attacks and strokes. * It undermines regulation of the circulatory system so that the heart muscle work’s harder and the blood vessels are subject to damage by blood flow turbulence. Loneliness can destroy the quality of sleep, so that a person’s sleep is less restorative, both physically and psychologically. * Socially isolated people wake up more at night and spend less time in bed actually sleeping.(Cole and

Growing older comes with many problems and the one of the big problems is ageism. We live in a culture that believes that younger is always better. This creates a problem for people as they age. They are often pushed out of jobs before they are ready to retire and then have difficulty finding a new one.

This is a project proposal for a community social event programme for a group of people over the age of 65 years. The project will identify an important need to address loneliness in old age which is a major health concern. This project proposal will explain the stages of planning the programme.

“Eventually as society has sought control, power, status, safety, and anxiety while maintaining a rationalized evolutionary order, Western man has found that he is unable to relate to his own nature and others, genuinely or authentically, slipping into a dread of nothingness.” This is a direct quote from the book Loneliness by Barry W. Hancock. Power message however, the book was somewhat dated so imagine the surprise when you find author Laura Pappano from a book entitled The Connection Gap that states “As a society, we face a collective loneliness and empty feeling that comes from lack of human interaction, but from meaningful interaction, the failure to be a part of something real, or have faith in issues that might bring us together.” Both are saying something different but are reiterating the same sentiment. Initially planning to change focus after these readings it became imperative that one must dive deeper into this painful but relevant topic of loneliness. This condition is one that anyone is subject to feel at any given moment of time for any given reason for any length of time. When looking into loneliness there are a bevy of aspects, perspectives, and realizations that must be carefully taken into context and thought about. You have to consider the setting, the projected and accepted norms of society, coupled with the people’s gadgetry that assist in the isolation. Because the concept of loneliness is so common, relatable, and inevitable the scope in which you

The ability to support the older people keep up social ties with the use of technical devices such as telephone is vital, and there is indication that older people may benefit from the use of internet as a befriending opportunity (Skingley, 2013). According to Age UK (2009), there is no evidence to effectiveness of services aimed at reducing loneliness and social isolation among older people, but concludes that there is a need to focus on befriending services for older people, in particular the effectiveness of such services in terms of their impact on older people’s quality of life and their overall preventive value.

This study investigated the difference between emotional and social loneliness using structural equation modeling, evaluated whether a two-dimensional or unidimensional conception of loneliness provides a better fit to the data. Second, the extent to which positive and negative social exchanges are associated with older adults’ loneliness was examined. Third, they also investigated whether the structure and social-exchange correlates of loneliness differ for currently married versus formerly married older

Loneliness is often not considered as a risk to a person physical health. People are subject to loneliness at all stages of life, but it is more frequent for the elderly. The effects of the lack of companionship or the perception of it could represent bad consequences of the health state of older people. In today’s American society it is very common that the elder people is left in nursery homes so the family does not have to actually take care of them and not feel guilt about it. Even though at the nursery homes they are well taken care of, they can experience a great amount of loneliness because of the lack of close contact with their family. I will explore the effects of loneliness and its relations to health risk on the last stage of life. My research will analyze how people experience loneliness and their unconscious physical reaction to it. The case study from which my research is stating out is known as The Roseto effect. Around 1960s the Italian community of Roseto, Pennsylvania, had a heart attack rate of half the average on the rest of the communities around them. Researchers found that the only factor different between the Roseto people and the people of the other communities was the lack of loneliness on the Rosetans. Over the years the community “Americanize” and stated to have isolated individuals that were stressing out with American life and drifted away from the close community; as a result of this by 1992 the Rosetans had the same heart attack rates as the rest. In my research I want to explore and explain both sides of the Roseto effect, having a close community and low

Social Isolation can be defined as a continual lack of contact with other people. Social isolation and chronic loneliness is one of the indisputable signals of mental turmoil, including major depression. It is the withdrawal of self from social roles directly or indirectly among individuals. Loneliness is the feeling of emptiness and desolation. This issue can immensely negative consequences on older persons such as a wide variation of premature health issues.

According to George Monbiot’s article “The Age of Loneliness Is Killing Us” Monbiot states that society is shifting into isolation and loneliness. Instead of having the age of sharing and socializing. Each and every individual is wanting to stay alone with their own solitude and loneliness. Monbiot recognizes this damaging effect on society and states that how much dangerous it is. To start off. Monbiot claims that we as humans are social beings and always will be “We were social creatures from the start,” by disagreeing with Thomas Hobbes’s claim on our human state of nature “of every man against every man.” Monbiot sees this idea of every person on their own an epidemic of loneliness in today’s age, and how it