Exploration of Social Issue in Ageing

An Exploration of
Social Issue In Ageing

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTION
People across the whole wide world are living longer. It has been said that aging has a very
important as well as significant impact on the overall society. Individuals of various ages as well
as gender shows variants in different aspects, like legal along with social responsibilities,
perceptive towards self and life. Young or teenage individuals tends to have lesser legal
privileges as they all are more likely to push social as well as political change, to create along

with adoption of new and advanced technologies and requires education. It has also been
identified that in the current era, as compare to old age people, individuals having less age factor
due to some social issues (Lindemann, 2010). Also it is said that people have various needs and
requirements from the society as well as from government and have variation in their values as
compare to old age people . In the present assignment, an essay is going to be prepared which
includes discussion about various view point of authors related to the topic. Along with this, the
main aim of this essay is to increase knowledge and understanding of readers associated to the
topic.
Main Body
In various societies, it has been identified that age might be viewed as well as treated in
different ways. For instance, age can be measured which is starting from the conception or from
the time of birth as starting from either age of zero or one. In addition to this, transitions like
reaching puberty, majority age or age of retirement are usually treated as socially significant. All
these factors plays very important role in the life of an individual person. The main concept of
successful aging as well as healthy aging define as both social along with physical aspects of an
aging procedure (Dossett, Fricchione and Benson, 2020). There are different authors who have
their own opinions and theories on the topic of exploration of social issue in ageing which is
quite different from other authors. In this section views and thoughts of different authors related
to the topic are going to be discussed in detail manner.
On the basis of Calvillo and Parati, (2020), it has been said that in the present era, where
people face huge competition, comparison and race in their professional as well as personal life
related to their social status, it highly influence the overall health and age factors of the person in
an adverse manner. Due to various challenges and fast forward life where everyone is racing to
get success and growth before their competitor, people forget their own health and life. It has
also been identified that due to increasing in life span as well as because of poor health care,
individuals get various sort of health problems and issues. All these factors increase the degree of
disability within the elderly or old age people and add compound of health issues and problems
of care in their lives. It has also been identified that in various countries the life expectancy of
individuals has been rapidly gone up because of excessive stress, unhealthy diet, stressful life,
changing in life style due to external environment. Apart from people getting old at very early
age due to changes in their lifestyle, elder people also experience changes in their lives due to