Abandoned Senior Citizens

Are Americans prep bed for the change magnitude number of old cosmos? In the next century the h superstarst-to-goodnessest of old pull up s leads be the fastest growing population in the commonwealth. gibe to The AGS Foundation for Health and Aging (2005), the size and character of the clock-worn in the United States is rapidly changing. Since the 1900 close to of the US population was under the time of 65, just this drastically changed over the course of the century. In fact, the senior(a) citizen population grew from 3. 1 million to 33. 2 million from 1900 to 1994.Further much, by the year 2030, unmatchedness out of every five Americans go forth be a senior citizen. Our society must prepare to dish out the increasing number of elderly that are aband geniusd by family or have no family to maintenance for them. As a result, the elderly are those who stand to mislay the most due to the lack of proper worry. Longer liveliness spans and infertility is creating a serious unbalance in shape ups. Moreover, with the continual growing numbers of the age group 65 and above, Americans may not be ready to handle the lading that testament fare with supporting the elderly. Senior Citizen Population is on Brink of Explosion in World and in United States. This chemise in the age complex body part of the worlds population poses challenges to society, families, businesses, wellness anxiety providers and policymakers to meet the necessitates of ripening individuals according to the Census Bureau, (2009, Para. 6). To however illustrate the major impact Americans will cognize due to the over growing elderly population, the Division of the U. S. Census Bureau published middle- serial projections that gives a good demonstration of growth percentages from 1990 to 2050 by race.Figure 1. 0. Statistics of The remote Population Projections of the United States, by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin The worst is as yet to surveil for the elderly fra il as an unbalanced society cannot or will not provide a divine serviceing hand. In fact, firearm children are projected to still outnumber the older population ecumenical in 2050, the under 15 population in the United States is evaluate to fall below the older population by that date, increasing from 62 million today to 85 million. Census Bureau, (2009, par a. ). These shocking numbers should be a wakeup call to our society to prepare for the impact on the financial strain the elderly will poses to their families. Consequently, children or families of the elderly will carry the burdens of making difficult decisions to help or to turn the other(a) cheek and walk away. Moreover it will be the elderly who will suffer the most from being aband iodind and forgotten in the bring off of hospitals, occupy for homes, halfway homes, or hospices for somebody else to worry about.The sad and fateful reality of what lurks beneath the decisions to leave frail and aging parents with others is the desire to be free or rid of the office of condole with for ones elderly parents themselves. In time, the once young and viral independent magnanimous who were able to contribute to society, have withering bodies that draw sick, disabled, or suffer from decease and are considered too old and too much foreboding to deal with. When the elderly are left alone they experience health risks, rational instability, social isolation, loneliness, and depression (Saul, 1983).Truly one cannot image something worsened than watching an elderly soulfulnesss mind slowly leave out due to lack of stimulation, emotional support, or honor a lone(prenominal) elderly craves. Typically, dementia or loss of memory sets in to the head intelligence agency that an elderly person cannot call in what happened from one day to the next. Eventually, the heartbroken elderly puzzles sicker, or worse disabled from a fall or a non- curable decease like Parkinsons or Alzheimers, which leads to help littleness, disorientation, bitterness, and anger because they cannot remember or help themselves.In truth, it can be a lowbred awakening witnessing ones parent turn into a dissimilar person in what involvems like overnight. The adoreful vivacious spirit that one loved about a parent or family member has become this empty shell of a person. Indeed the experience spoken of comes from one who has become the parent of a parent diagnosed with Parkinsons two years ago, and who knows that any illness or disability can be could be seriously reduced with the proper medical attention, nutrients, and most of all the nurturing love an elderly person earns for. Mind blowing, yet all too square(a) are the statistics piling up in hospitals that have no family to plump down them up or left alone in nursing homes hoping for family to come for them, or worse left alone in their homes with no one to turn to (Pek Yee, 2009). Specifically one such story happened to a companions brother in law who lost his aim to a horrible and tragic death when his father died three years ago. concisely afterwards his fathers death his commence became distraught and dismay and started visiting him and his family frequently because he lived the closest to her apart from his sisters, so he wanted to help his mother by means of the pain of her loss. During her visits it seemed his mother was puff through her depression, but she often had heavy bouts of deep sadness accompanied by anger and hostility. In truth the son and his family experienced mental abused by the mothers enraged hostility however, his family managed to suppress the desire to chew out back at her because they knew she did not live with them permanently.Eventually, the mother became more despondent and asked her son if she could live with him, so she did not have to live by herself anymore. Although she did have two other daughters, they both lived in another urban center and never made an effort to see her or have her come visit them. In spite of the mothers sadness, the son denied his mother from living with him mainly because he believed her negativity would be too substantial to live with. Since, she was in good health her son did not see a reason for her to move in with him because this would add more responsibility for him and definitely create tension for his family.As a result of the denial, the mother felt spurned, sorrowful, and heartbroken and became detached from everyone and began wondering off from time to time without letting anyone know where she would go. Finally one day his mother called and say she was going away for a while but again without word of where she planned on going. Sadly and one week later was plunge face down in a creek dead about 10 miles from her home with only her purse in hand. The authorities who base her said she had been dead for four days and ruled her death a suicide.In short, they said she probably wondered off in distress and resolved t o take her life rather than be alone and without someone to care for her. Unfortunately, the son will have to live with knowing he rejected her and the possibility that he caused her to take her life, which can be terrible tilt to carry for the rest of ones life It stands to reason that children will experience the pain and guilt of knowing either they help their aging parents or resort to disassociation.In fact, the brutal reality is that children are comely the parents as their aging parents are vastly fit the children to support. Indeed the experience of having time and money stripped away from the children who care for their aging parents, a enormous with baring the extra responsibilities of caring for them, all take a doorbell on a familys emotional and physical health. At first, one wants to believe that once their elderly parent is placed safely in a nursing home the responsibility of caring for their parent is move form them and shifted over to the care workers, but in reality this is not true at all.To begin with, the parents finances need to be take care of regular visits to the doctor, supplies like clothes and hygiene products, and most significantly regular checks with the nursing home to make sure the parent or family member is not mistreated. Of course, nursing homes will feed them three meals a day, bath them, administer their medicine routinely, and take care of the everyday toil of making sure they do not hurt themselves.However, if a medical emergency should arise and a family member is not there to help, the nursing home just ships the elderly family member off to the emergency room, for someone more equipped can help them, which can be a horrifying experience if the elderly person is left to go through the experience alone. Typically if an elderly person does not have a family member to pick him or her up at the hospital after they are discharged, the hospitals social worker will be assigned to place them in State facility or coiffe to dropped him or her off at his or her home, even if the elderly person is not equipped to take care of him or herself.It is no wonder that elderly living alone have higher risks of increasing practicable disability and much broader clinical detections of social loneliness and depression (Shu-Chuan, 2004). Thus, both the elderly and their families suffer in some form or another. at one time upon a time aging gracefully was respected and adorned, but today aging has become a frightening look at the incoming and a sad end to ones youth. Why is becoming old such a scary place to go for so many, perhaps because the awareness people have that they too could end up sick, alone, and abandoned.A prime example of why people are so afraid would be how our nations nursing homes have become a dumping ground for the elderly. One only needs to menace into a States nursing facility to witness what elderly are experiencing. underneath all the hype that the elderly are well taken care and resp ected, lays the ugly truth of decreased standards of living conditions. To begin with, elderly are left in their soiled underwear for hours at a time, or sometimes left lying in their beds all day long without food or drink.If an elderly person is sick and incapable of doing for him or herself, or a family member does not take the time or appropriate measures to stand up for the parent or family member staying in nursing home, terrible things can happen. Moreover, health care providers are increasingly becoming more abusive, neglectful and defiant, which is aiding in destroying the health and the very fabric of our elderly generation. Regretfully the aging frail have no other choice but to submit their selves to whatever care they can realise leaving them helplessly in the hands of retirement or nursing workers who do not care about them.As time progresses more senior citizens are feeling the aches and pains of growing older and abandonment, but this does not seem to matter becaus e he or she continues to wait patiently and hope someone will come visit or care for them pic Figure 2. 0. An Alone and Hopeful Elderly Women Patiently Waits for Someone to go through Her. Someone needs to care for and help the elderly, despite the implied burdens. In the mind of peoples mind that have had to give up or change their lives to accommodate the aging parent or family member, there lies a desire to help in some way.However, if the surface were pulled back underneath would lay admissions of oppressions of too much to bear. Thus, the uglier side of the naked truth is revealed, which is less and less the children of the elderly refuse to take on the responsibility that comes with caring for the elderly. Out of sight, out of mind is all too often the irreproachable fall back for families unwilling to help. Surely, someone needs to care for and help the elderly, despite the implied burdens.Helping the elderly might be burdensome, but life is life regardless of age. Of cour se, helping the elderly is a heavy burden to some but life is life, regardless of age. With this in mind, it stands to reason that our nation needs to wise up and instill the proper support structure to our badly needed aging society to create balance. So that families need not look at growing old as a scary road to venture down or aging as a strain or burden, but rather as a gift to be grateful for.