Ageing can be illustrated as a systematic process of discrimination and stereotyping against the older people, just because they are old. According to human rights commission, ageing is a feature where, older people are merged together or people think about them to be the same, because of their age.
The health and its cure among the ageing people of the society has further been discussed and has a big impact on the country’s society. Health is a basic issue in any society and plays a vital role in the development of any community or a country (Tonetti et al., 2017). Whereas, in terms of ageing, health is considered to be an important aspect, which can be controlled practically and emotionally. These health problems consist of various types of diseases, which are going to be further discussed in the study and will help in making a policy for it.
Population ageing has a huge affect on organizing and delivering health care. The most important aspects to be discussed in the field are about the development of small to long term illness, shortage of healthcare indiviuals. H ealth issues in the ageing field have been diversified and increased a lot in the recent times (Tonetti et al., 2017). These issues are of great importance because a lot of old people get to have a minor health issue and due to that minor issue, a long term issue is created. Before, there were no policies made about diminishing the health issues and health measures are need to this matter.
The foremost issue in the health measures to pursue are to look for the chronic sickness, like heart disease, osteoporosis, and alzheimer’s disease, instead of the small and acute diseases. For this purpose, a design have to be made, where the style of medicine will be changed, which corrects a single health issue, instead of curing multiple diseases after a long time. Patients and doctors will maintain an engaging relationship, to help the patients deal with the disease instead of directly curing it. With a long term treatment, comes disability for the ageing people. Nursing homes, personal care, dedicated housing services will manage this side of the treatment. After that, the financial and insurance system, needs to be look forward, in order to maintain the purpose it is started for.
The most important issue that comes the ageing policy application is about the professional staff commitment. It includes the certified care specialists, nurse assistants, personal care attendants, and house care indiviuals. The staff which provide health care to the old people are mostly women, are from racial or ethnic minorities, and are not skilled enough to give the appropriate health care (Peterson, 2015). Heavy workloads, low wages and incentives, complex working conditions, and a job that is not liked by the society has also played a vital role in the hiring and motivation of the job.
If this was a short term problem, it could be solved easily. But, when it is treated at a larger concern, it makes a huge imbalance (Klimczuk, 2017). Hiring professional staff on a shorter level also does not make a difference, because ageing problem cannot be dealt on a shorter note. According to survey, the amount of registered nursing staff has been forecasted at a 20% decline by 2020. In order to attract more workers to the job, higher wages and benefits are required.
In order to increase health of the ageing population, public programmes can also play a positive role in the development. These programmes mostly include the financing of health care for the older people. It is believed to be of great impact on the older people. Quick care services for the older people, like physican and hospital care are normally financied by a private and public source (Oliver, Foot & Humphries, 2014). There are a variety of social and medical care programmes which are financied and administered by the sponsers. These programmes can also include a number of young population. Overall, these financies have largely been decreased in the past time. It has also influenced the need of the issue in recent years (Buffel et al., 2016). The ageing population who do not have any financial source, rely on the health care funded by any body. So, when they do not get any appropriate health, they tend to be moving towards the bad health conditions.
Where most of the short term care finance can be easily deprived, long term facilities are also an important issue. Chronic care financing like home and community based services is mostly done by the NGOs, government entities, and private insurances (Baker & Baker, 2017). Such medical care features need to be adopted, where the medical care facilities are strict and provide a got earning for the staff also. The long term cure needs to have a long term finance, which is provided by a consistent source. With increased ageing population comes, more challenges.
Besides the mentioned points above, the main policy which should be made is of the income which an old person receives. This is other than the health issue, but is of equal importance. These incomes are also funded by the public entities and make a large impact on the behavior of an old patient (Smit et al., 2016). Policies should be made according to the desired amount to ageing people. In every society, there are entities which help the society and improve them accordingly. Previously, medical care programmes covered only elders and some people with any disease (Araujo et al., 2016). Such policies need to be finished, and a “policy for all” should be made. Some countries have programmes which cover the entire population in it.