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Essay About Igbo People

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Chapter One Statement of the Problem Throughout the past years, the increase in the proportion of the population of older people aged 60 years and above has become global news, World Health Organisation (WHO1980), an issue requiring more attention and recognition. This trend has not been without problems and difficult challenges even within the developed areas of the world (WHO 2003, UN 2010, UN2011). Many statistics reveal this reality; though some information is questionable. Daily news demonstrate this fact: If it is not about quick discharge of the older people from the hospitals and negligence in their daily care, in care and residential homes in the western world, it must be lack of policies that consider the needs of the older people, …show more content…

As such, providing suitable rehabilitation for the older Igbo Nigerian West Africans has become a major problem for every Igbo family (Ajomale 2005). A better knowledge and awareness of the rehabilitation needs of the older Igbo Nigerian persons, the identification of these needs as well as the recognition of the drivers of change in the rehabilitation of older Igbo persons in the evolving Nigerian socio-cultural context should begin with who the Igbo people are, their worldview, their religious and cultural attachments, and their ditto traditional arrangements for the rehabilitation of the older persons. My study will identify the rehabilitation needs of the older Igbo persons in the evolving socio-cultural context in Nigeria with the view to: Identifying the concrete rehabilitation need of the older Igbo persons, identifying steps towards achieving these needs, evaluating predominant praxis in the light of the modern contemporary gained knowledge and creating an awareness of the complex nature of the problem in an evolving

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