1 / 20

The Demographics of Aging

The Demographics of Aging. Module 2 Nurse Responses to Elder Mistreatment An IAFN Education Curriculum. Learning Objectives. By the end of this module, participants will be able to: Identify societal assumptions about aging and how these assumptions can affect nursing care of older adults

cisco
Télécharger la présentation

The Demographics of Aging

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Demographics of Aging Module 2 Nurse Responses to Elder MistreatmentAn IAFN Education Curriculum

  2. Learning Objectives By the end of this module, participants will be able to: • Identify societal assumptions about aging and how these assumptions can affect nursing care of older adults • Discuss basic demographic information about the older population • Recognize difficulties posed by various age-related impairments • Discuss data on heath of older population • Discuss how generational values can affect an older adult’s recognition of mistreatment and willingness to seek help

  3. Assumptions about Aging • What negative attitudes and inaccurate assumptions do people have about older adults? • Where do these attitudes and assumptions come from? • How can these attitudes and assumptions affect care older patients receive in your practice setting?

  4. Turn Assumptions Around • Focus on facts related to aging and older adults rather than assumptions! • What are some of these facts?

  5. A Few Facts… • Majority of older adults have no self-care deficits • Older adults need to be treated as adults • -Put person before impairment • -Age does not equal incapacity • Each older patient has unique needs and circumstances

  6. Number of people age 65+ will increase over 50% by 2050 2008: almost 40 million 2030: more than 70 million 2050: almost 90 million Some ethnic groups will see more than a doubling of their older population Main source of data for statistics/charts in this module: Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics. Older Americans 2008: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 2008. Slide 15 from Older American 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being. Older Population Estimates

  7. Life Expectancy • People who survive to age 65 can expect to live average of almost 19 years • Of those who survive to age 85 • Women can expect to live average of 7 years • Men can expect to live average of 6 years

  8. Sex Ratio • For older adults 65 years and over: 70 men for every 100 women • By 85 and over: more than 2 women for every 1 man

  9. Potential Impairment • As people age, they are more likely to experience impaired functioning • When civilian, non-institutionalized adults ages 65 and over were asked to rate their health, 74% of both men and women reported their health as good or better • Self-rated health status declined with age for all groups

  10. 4% reside in long-term care facilities on any given day 96% of adults ages 65+ live in community -73% of older men are married /live with spouse -42% of older women also live with spouse; 39% live alone. Widowhood is more common among older women than older men -Some older adults live with other relatives -Small % of older adults live with non-relatives Living Arrangements

  11. Poverty • Less than 10% of older adults lived in poverty in 2006

  12. Living with Impairments Examples… • Severe visual impairment • Severe hearing impairment • A stroke or has an arm fracture • Arthritis in fingers • Peripheral neuropathy • Aphasia

  13. Physical Functioning

  14. Chronic Conditions

  15. Memory Impairment

  16. Depressive Symptoms

  17. Use of Health Care Services

  18. Nursing Home Utilization

  19. Generational Values • Historical Timeline • -Grandparents’ years of birth • -Events that occurred at different points on the line in their lives • -Additional historic events, inventions and norms of the times • -Effect of generational values related to elder mistreatment

  20. Closing Assessment Write down one major concept you learned from this module and how you will apply it in your practice

More Related