Problem of Aging Health Care

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Running Head: Health Care
Problem of Aging Health Care

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Target Audience.........................................................................................................................4
Health Promotion Plan...............................................................................................................5
Evaluation of Health Promotion Plan........................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
Reference..................................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The report discusses about the problem of aged health care services that is being faced by
people across Australia and the problem has come up due to inaccessibility. Government as
well as people are aware that population is aging rapidly and a large sum of people will soon
fall into category of aging population. The problem has come to life because Australia has
observed a fall in number of birth rates and Australian government has not been taking
actions for ailment of health care services for aging population. If we want ourselves to age
healthy, free of chronic illness then health awareness programmes as well as basic knowledge
over health care facilities should be provided especially to people who live in rural areas as
they are not facilitated and informed about the modern health care centres and the aids
services provided by them in order to control the illness and provide a better life to aging
population.("4430.0 - Disability, Ageing and Carers, Australia: Summary of Findings, 2015",
2016) Healthy aging is achievable when the population is ready for active participation in
regards to physical fitness, healthy eating. It not only will improve the health of aging people
but also will help in boosting lifestyle of young generation and helps them to have a good
growth and development. Population that acknowledges the importance of healthy aging has
several merits. Population that has healthy benefits sees lower occurrence of preventable
diseases. Along with it the population that gets ill can be restored to normal life without
expenditure of extreme health care services (Smith, Jancey & Binns, 2017) This lays two
benefits, one is population needs to spend less of their money on health care services and the
health care organizations also record good performance and less economic burden. Among
aging population in Australia there is a list of factors that lead to disability and bad health.
(Abed NA, PM & LD, 2013)

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They are preventable diseases, alcohol consumption, non-communicable diseases,
substance use and abuse, bad diet, lack of physical activities, lack of socialization. The risk of
development of chronic illness increases with age, and the population that is most susceptible
to them belongs to age group 45-65 years. It has been observed that the pattern of such
chronic illness changes with the age group, the people who are beyond 65 years of age get
affected by cardiovascular diseases or cancer and that counts for 60% of the total burden on
the health sector of the country. (Smith et al., 2018)Respiratory diseases in aging population
imposes the second threat and often leads to brain aging, loss in senses.
Target Audience
Recently it has been recorded that the mortality rate has fallen drastically across
Australia and the life expectancy has increases. The fall in numbers of mortality rate across
the country has brought up the burden of health care challenges among a large population of
aging people. Apart from that, fall in birth rates has also added to the concern where the
aging population is required to be healthy in order to participate as an active work force for
the welfare of the economy. According to a study conducted in 2015, one in every seven
persons is old and that accounts for 15% of the total population of the country. The
percentage of old people or aging population is increasing every year, where in 2009 it was
13%, rose to 14% in 2012 and 15% in 2015. According to numbers, there are approximately
3.5 million people that comes under aging population. (Ruth, Lixia & Grace, 2001) With such
rise, there has been development of no revolutionary health care policies and awareness
program that may aid to the control and regulation of poor health. A continuous challenge has
developed in front of health care organizations, social workers, government. There are
several reasons that contemplate that why aging population needs help and attention
regarding health care services, knowledge and awareness. The first reason is the rise in
numbers of aging population of old people, they need to make aware of lifestyle