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| Three factors that exacerbate problems of aging |
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1) Labeling the elderly as weak and incompetent.
2) Norm of work as basis of social value
3) Economic deprivation |
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We tend to divide people up into different groups based on their age
**Their tends to be an unequal distribution of wealth and power based on age.
**In Some degree age segregation is some what voluntary since we tend to hang out with people our age or marry people our age |
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**Devaluing of the elderly, purely because of their age
**Connected to our society’s emphasis on maintaining our youthfulness and beauty
**EFFECTs: government programs for the elderly are often the first ones to get their budget minimized or cut completely. |
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| People with multiple minority standings experience multiple disadvantages. |
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| A lot of elderly people because they are more likely to become poor and more likely to live in poorer neighborhoods since they are poor, and live in neighborhoods with crime -> easy targets of crime -> injuries -> being old they tend to have a longer recovery from injuries |
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| More and more baby boomers lead to, too much demand at some of the elderly institutions leads to patients being drugged to calm them down and spend less attention to them. sometimes the elderly are actually abused |
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It provides disability benefits, benefits in case of a death of a spouse
**PROBLEM:
Since more and more people are using it as a sole source of income and more and more people are aging it is becoming used like this more and more often |
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Medicare:
**Not sufficiently funded by government & tends to be trimmed periodically by the government
**Only pays for a portion of their healthcare bills (this is a big issue for the “near poor”)
4.Physicians tend to feel that medicare doesn’t pay them enough for their services, so many will not accept medicare OR will only except a certain portion of medicare patients. Leads to stressing the elderly to seek patients that only take Medicare |
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| Families used to take care of the elderly now, children tend to move far away and place their elderly relatives into "homes" |
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**Elderly’s lack of power to shape institutions
**REMEDY: is to establish a group/organization to act on the elderly’s behalf to give them more power
EX. AARP |
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