FINDINGS Occupational Profile: BK is a widowed, Army veteran living in the Marydell retirement village, which is funded by the Arch Diocese of Wilmington, DE. She is a 68 year old, whom engages in daily occupations in a powered wheel chair due to a left AKA. She is functionally mobile in a 1 floor apartment using the powered chair and upright walker. She has a positive outlook, displaying resiliency navigating her home, which is not ADA compliant. Due to chronic RA her UE strength and ROM are limited, and the accompanying Sjogern Syndrome limits her visibility.
Callahan wants us to understand a new perspective of old age; we must know the meaning of the human life cycle and have limits when spending money in addition to programs to prolong life with no value (Callahan, p.592). Extended life shouldn’t be the worry, the worry should be the quality of the elderly person’s life and how one can make it better now and as painless as possible. The goal that should be in mind is to give meaning to elderly life by making it a “decent and honorable time” (Callahan,
Cuba V Australia There are many similarities between Australia and Cuba. Australia has a population of 23,993,700 and an area of 7,692,024 〖km〗^2, However Cuba has a population of 11,167,325 with an area of just 109,884〖km〗^2. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, although their political and economic freedom is not ranked highly, it is classified high in human development by the United Nations performing especially well in education and health. Australia, one of the wealthiest country’s in the world with a GDP of $1.525 trillion US, ranks highly in many of the international comparisons, especially quality of life, health and education. Material Living Standards: Material living standards in terms of wealth are better in Australia than Cuba.
People have trouble understanding why and how people become who they are. Ted Bundy was a psychopath that killed many, but no one knows why. What people wonder though is why did he commit these crimes? What made him like the way he was?
Late Adulthood Many people in the United States and other industrialized countries are living longer. The life expectancy at birth now is 81 years old. Although this is an important achievement, it is important for social workers to understand the affects that increase longevity have on the individual, family life and social work practice. (https://www.nia.nih.gov).
I am in the gym locker room, about to head out the doors. A boy enters. “Hey, Jeremy Lin, you’re pretty good at basketball. It’s so hard to play you though because I can’t tell if your eyes are open or not! It looks like you’re sleeping out there.”
Final Thesis The Baby Boomer era has decreased since War War 1, leaving mostly the government and Canadians distress about how this event will impact societies economy and the debts our generation has to pay. Supporting argument #1 With the peak in births during the Baby Boomer era, this has resulted in financial instability within society. Supporting argument #2 Society as a whole is experience difficulties managing the effects of the aging Baby Boomers. Introduction During the 1947 to 1965, about 76.4 million children were born, this phenomenon was eventually labeled as the Baby Boom (Canadian Encyclopedia).
The social model of disability, on the other hand, focuses on the environmental factors and the availability of support structures
Introduction I. We as a human being, we age and it is said that there will be more elderly people in the future. A. According to the graph of 2012 Population Estimates and National Projections from the Current Population Report by Jennifer M. Ortman, the population aged 65 and above is projected to be 83.7 million in 2050, almost double its estimated population of
1.3. Dealing With Changes in Priorities, Self-Image and Relationships Disability may occur from various instances: unexpected illnesses, accidents or deteriorating health conditions. This sudden change may cause one’s life to spiral out of control, far from the life they once led. Changes will occur, even to oneself and may cause the individual to go through an excruciating process of adjustment that may or may not open his or her eyes to a new light. It isn’t easy accepting lost of control of bodily functions or dealing with reduced mobility. The outcome all depends on how a person deals with the change of life, daily routines and how he or she meets the challenges to be faced ahead.
In this report I will discuss both the Social and Medical Models, define their pros and cons and give a short reflection on my own opinion of the two models in everyday use today. Both the medical and the social models of disability describe how they see disability and how they feel disabilities and those suffering should be treated. Both models have very different views on the causes of, how disabilities should be taken care of and by whom and both have their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to caring for those with disabilities. Medical Model
Once Marin Luther King expressed, “Our social welfare system is so much more than just charity. Everyone must help, whether you are rich or poor. Everyone must have the belief that there’s always someone in a much worse situation than I am, and this person I want to help as a comrade”. Martin Luther King’s statement holds true that social welfare and health care should be the act of providing something for someone who does not have it. However, the modern debate with regards to social welfare and health care is that who should be providing the means.
Other comprehensive range of causes of disability are wars, civil conflicts, accidents , poverty, overcrowding, unhygienic conditions, natural disasters ,resources limitation , geographical distance, stress and psycho-social problems (NHRC 2005). Models of Disability A model is defined as an essential system, shaped by ideas and is used to bring out the meaning from the information as well as to organize these ideas and theories (Coleridge 1993). It encloses specific knowledge and assumes link between data. The paper outlines the assumptions of models and examines the consequences of these models of thought for disabled people and for the rehabilitation professions. The core of all definitions of disability is that it results from some kind of barrier and there exists a difference in the locus of this barrier.
Disability is defined by World Health Organisation as “an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations”. Disability remains a major challenge throughout the world with disabled people facing hostile socioeconomic outcomes than people without disabilities, such as less education, worse health outcomes, less employment, and higher poverty rates (1). Physical disability is defined as: “an acquired or congenital physical and/or motor impairment
Disabled people are people who have mental or physical limitation so they depend on someone to support them in doing their daily life needs and jobs. Although disabled people are a minority and they are normally ignored, they are still a part of the society. The statistics show that the proportion of disabled people in the world rose from 10 percent in the seventies of the last century to 15 percent so far. The number of handicapped exceeds a billion people all over the world, occupied about 15 percent of the world's population, as a result of an aging population and the increase in chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, blood and psychological diseases that are related with disabilities and impairments. Every five seconds someone
