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Our Aging Population: Florida’s Next Senior Living Boom My research paper will study the expectation of the next senior population boom in Florida and look at the the state has plans already in place for handling the housing needs and the availability of resources for the long-term care of this cohort. The disciplines that I am using in my research are Social Work/Gerontology and Sociology. While there are many theories within the Social Work/Gerontology discipline that is relevant to this

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Globalization is the coming together of all cultures from all over the world and the sharing of knowledge and resources. This sounds like a good thing, and that everyone should benefit from it, but that it not always the case. For as many positive connotations globalization has, it also has just as many, if not more, negative connotations. Better put, globalization “includes increased human interconnectedness facilitated by new information technologies and huge volumes of trade, capital, people

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Population aging is a shift in the distribution of a countries population towards older ages. This is usually reflected in an increase in the population mean and median ages a decline in the portion of the population composed of children, and a rise in the population that is elderly. How population aging affects the age structure of a population is by fertility, mortality, and migration. Babies being born represents fertility, people dying represents mortality, and people moving represents migration

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Active aging is defined as “the maintenance of positive subjective well-being, good physical, social and mental health and continued involvement in one's family, peer group and community throughout the aging process” (Hofer, 2016, p.1). “Active aging promotes the vision of all individuals—regardless of age, socioeconomic status or health—fully engaging in life within all seven dimensions of wellness: emotional, environmental, intellectual/cognitive, physical, professional/vocational, social and spiritual”

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Aging is a process that every living thing will be impacted by. Many people wish that they could delay or slow the process of aging. One theory that is interesting is the activity theory on aging. Eliopoulos (2014), describes the activity theory stating, “An older person should continue a middle-aged lifestyle, denying the existence of old age as long as possible” (p. 16-17). The text goes on to state, “Society should apply the same norms to old age as it does to middle age and not advocate diminishing

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aged. Bias aimed at a person of advanced age is called ageism, a term coined by Robert N. Butler in 1968. He was a physician and pioneer in the field of geriatric medicine. He was, among other things, a founding director of the National Institute on Aging and president of the International Longevity Center. He was one of the first to describe age prejudice, and said it was “a systemic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old.” His contemporaries back in the early years

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Aging is an inevitable, normal process that the human body experiences in the course of a lifespan. Every year as the body ages it goes through a lot of changes. Aging is irreversible, once the body ages there is no way of reversing the process however it is variable. There are a lot of factors that contribute to the variation of aging. The two most important factors are genetics and lifestyle habits. These factors can determined whether an individual become a successful ager, usual ager or disease

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Theories of AgingTheories of AgingNate AungkuldeeMilwaukee School of Engineering –School of NursingAbstractGerontological nursing may be viewed as the nursing management for older population. Knowledge of nursing care and competency of caring for elderly become more important as the result of increasing population of old age people in the past decade and expecting in ongoing increasing in the next twenty years. There are many theories of aging that

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Being a practicing surgeon, Atul Gawande approaches the dilemma of aging from a unique perspective. The study and implementation of traditional medical practices, he suggests, contributes to a problem solving, solution-based approached to over coming the hurdles of old age. The medical field, he says, puts the entirety of its focus on fixing the concrete problems that patients come into the emergency room with, instead of focusing on the best overall solution to satisfy the patients primary desires

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workplace, technological advances and new medical advances ...) has an impact on the health needs and the distribution of social services for the elderly population. The individual ages and the society ages. When considering the stage of aging we are presented with a social problem of the first order, in that older people as a different and important group in the demographic field, with specific cultural features, their own interests, ... are demanding that society be guaranteed the increase

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