Abstract
The elderly population is rising globally and similar trends are being observed not only in Asia but also in Pakistan. A developing country facing several challenges in the form of political instability, lack of economic growth, low savings of the elderly, weak pension system, makes life challenging for the elderly. Pakistan’s demographic trends show that between 1990 till 2010, the population aged 60+ years increased by 75.1 %. It is projected that the life expectancy will increase to 72 years by 2023. WHO report (1998) projected that 5.6 % of Pakistan’s population was over 60 years of age, with a probability of doubling to 11 % by the year 2025.
Pakistan is a socially cohesive society and elders are valued and respected. It
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In followed figure has risen to 759 million over the past three decades and is projected to jump to 2 billion by 2050.
Actual and projected global population aged 60 years or over, 1980, 2010 and 2050
Our Religion stresses a lot on the rights of elderly people and we are asked to serve elderly relatives of our parents if parents are not alive. We make fun of the West that they send their parents to “Old Houses” and do not bother to inquire about them.
Now if we analyze that what is happening to elderly people especially in the poverty struck rural areas it gives us following haunting facts : -
Elderly people die miserably due to lack of food and medical attention.
They develop psychotic disorders due to depression and dejection.
They develop certain diseases by not eating healthy food which is not providing the necessary multi-vitamins needed to survive in the old age.
Employee’s Old age benefits pension money is used by their family members.
They have very limited social life.
Lack of religious and basic education deprived them from doing anything useful to pass the time.
Children of even well settled families tend to ignore grandparents who just need to share love with them and focus.
Sheltered housing provides social contact and a secure environment that appeal to many older people. Sheltered housing has proven to be popular for a minority of people as alternatives to
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
These people had very poor food offerd them cuasing there bodues to be “thin and frail” as stated in document 7. Due to them being weak and frail many of them had poor immune systems cuasing them to be more prone to deasises. The laborers lived miserble lives working 12 hours a day and going home to poorly furnshex homes.
projected to triple by 2050. Additional studies shows that last year million of family and friends
"Are the old real human beings? Judging by the way our society treats them, the question is open to doubt. Since it denies them what they conceive the necessary minimum, and since it deliberately condemns them to the utmost poverty, to the slums, to ill health, loneliness and despair, it affirms that they hold neither the same needs nor the same rights as other members of the community. In order to soothe its conscience, our society's ideologists have invented a certain number of myths - myths that contradict one another, by the way - which induce those in the prime of life to see the aged not as fellow beings but as another kind of being altogether" (Perrin, & Polowy 2008).
that number grew to 59.5 million, which is an increase in of 158% (Ryan, 2013, p. 5). As the
giving the conditions they were living in. They then had to deal with the cold and the fact that
All over the news and in different programs that are implemented are set in place are geared toward children in poverty. Poverty in children is a huge problem happening all over the country but what about the elderly. We get so focus on helping the children that the elderly can sometimes be looked over and forgotten about. In Texas, 17% of all elderly are living in poverty. Poverty in the elderly is an issue that continues to rise at a fast pace and this may be because of food insecurity that they may face (Communities Foundation of Texas, 2016). Most people feel like getting old is so far in the future for them, or just the idea of aging is too hard to think about but getting old for all of us is imminent. The elderly once took care of us, so it is
The rapid growth in the number of seniors in America and around the world is creating a global demographic revolution without precedent. During this century, advances in hygiene and water supply and control of infectious diseases have reduced the risk of premature death much. As a result, the proportion of population over 60 years in the world is growing faster than in any previous era. In 1950 there were approximately 200 million people aged over 60 worldwide. By 2000 there will be over 550 million, and by 2025, the number of people over 60 is expected to reach 1,200 million.
These people were held prisoners for hundreds of years with no knowledge on survival as far as taking care of their health and being able to maintain it,
Our society nowadays discriminates the elderly and they are being ill treated. However Primitive agrarian cultures very existence depended upon the knowledge earned from experience, valued their elders, but even they were o moved to killing the non productive members of society because of harsh conditions of subsistence living. (Carroll Estes, 2009)
The world’s population is ageing rapidly. Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's older adults is estimated to double from about 11% to 22%. In absolute terms, this is an expected increase from 605 million to 2 billion people over the age of 60.
Almost all the people, who live in the old age home, have a family. They have children, they have
One out of eight of world elderly population living in India. Most of them will never retire in the usual sense of the term and will continue to work as long as physically possible People work after 60’s.in Indian society it is generally the phenomenon that the son would give better care to the parent at the time of elderly will help the managing health and then they gave all the property to them to keep trust on him. Due to all these assumption the elder people became vulnerable and they cannot be taken for granted that their children will be able to look after them then they need care in old age.
Thesis Statement People think that putting their loved ones in senior home centers or assisted living centers will benefit them due to the way they think they're going to be treated. When in reality most of the time it's not that way. Many are very unorganized,they abuse the elderly, and patients aren't getting the attention they need. Senior homes are meant to make the patients feel like they're at home.
It is evident from the various literature that, very little attention has been paid to older people of modern industrializing societies of the world. In Nigeria for example, as well as in most developing countries, the need to plan for the welfare of older persons has received very little attention. There are clear evidences of lack of formal social support services for older people in Nigeria, such as Social Securiy, Pension, Health Insurance Scheme, Old Peoples Home, etc. One of the explanatory factors arises from the belief that the existing extended family system generally protects and provides for the welfare of old people in rural and agricultural societies. Hence, where an older person is childless, his/her brothers or sisters or even the children of his siblings are believed to be responsible for his/her maintenance. This may not be unconnected with why most policies, programmes and projects in the developing countries such as Nigeria have been concentrated on the children and the youths at the expense of older persons in the country. Both national and international organizations are seen working tirelessly