Elderly Care

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Elderly Care

Eve Stevens

HN200 Survey of Social Problems

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According to my father, there are two most important days in a person’s life – the day you are born and the day you die. With a birth, rejoicing at the good news brings laughter, gifts, and families gathering. With death, rejoicing within the heart as Christians are taught, but the heart also cries at the loss of a loved one. As a human services professional, the concern for programs and resources for elderly care is of high priority. In the field of human services, there is consensus in realizing an important aspect facing America today and for many years ahead is the elderly population. Already the nation is experiencing the need for additional programs to care for the elderly population. The rise of home care service providers is a definite indication for the need in elderly care responsibilities. The baby boomers are aging. This project focuses on the home care aspect of elderly care.

It is a fact that the group population known as baby boomers started arriving in 1946 to 1964, and it began mass influx of babies never again would be repeated in history. That was 64 years ago, and 18 years of baby boomers. In the wake of 2011, the first of the baby boomers will turn 65. This will be the beginning of many social changes that would impact government and society to improve and develop resources to supplement family elderly care (Landau, 2010).

The government will continue to experience high maintenance for healthcare, especially with the mass exodus of an 18-year population from middle adulthood into the elderly scene. Are families ready to accommodate for the needs of their parents as they become part of the elderly race? Many families have started experiencing the burden soon enough, and it has put strain on family life as well as caregivers marital status

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