Challenges Faced by Different Groups: Old Age and Disabled People

This essay discusses the challenges faced by different groups of people, including the elderly and disabled individuals. It provides realistic solutions for the elderly regarding the challenges they face. The challenges include physical and mental health issues, such as dementia, physical disabilities, and mental disorders. The essay also highlights the importance of providing healthcare teams for the elderly.

Challenges that face by different
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Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Health challenges are the condition of suffering or distress that may occur due to ill
health and physical damage. A population consist of different age groups of people that are
children, adult and older people. Population can be divided according to there financial status,
gender, disease, disability, prisoner and religion. All of them face different type of health
challenges ones in their entire life. Such health conditions may have impact of psychological,
physiological, emotional, social and financial problems. The essay will discuss about the
challenges that different groups of people face in context with old and disabled people. Further it
will include realistic solutions for elder people regarding the challenges they face(Hartholt and
et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
There are so many of challenges that are faced by different groups of people. Disability is
one of such challenges. Disability may be define as the condition in which person face difficulty
in doing work. Disability are blindness, low vision, deaf and hard of hearing, physical disability,
intellectual disability and locomotor disability. There are some challenges that faced by disable
people such as accessibility acceptance, teased and abuse by people, education and transportation
and accommodation facilities. Disable people mostly move around with use of wheelchair and
use crutches. The public places in any city are not made for comfort for people with disabilities.
There are no ramps and have narrow place for them to move(Camm-Crosbie and et. al., 2019).
There are so many children with disabilities that may face issue on availability of special
schools, trained teachers and study material. They may face health care issue that may occur due
to unavailability of trained heath worker and facilities. Physically disabled people require
wheelchair, walking aids, communication aid, artificial limb, hearing and vision aids. People use
these instrument daily but they face many challenges to carry them. People with disabilities can't
use public transport because it is not accessible and enough for their travel. That may lead to
person being late for their work and children being late for their schools. They can't use
wheelchair on road because they face difficulty in travelling. In city roads are not maintained and
municipal workers not clean them properly. They need any one person for on and off-boarding of
passengers with disabilities. They use personal vehicle for travelling and also pay extra while
travelling by taxi(Brodaty and Donkin, 2022).
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Old age person face many difficulties in in their life which is associated with their
physical and social health. They face difficulties with their everyday task and in movement from
one place to another. Old age people face problem in chewing food due to loss of teeth. This
result in decrease digestion of food. Bones become harden in old age which become brittle and
there is chances of fracture and breaks. In old age people ratio of body weight decrease gradually
that is marketed in spleen, liver and soft organ. That may alter body vital function which are
respiration, reproduction, growth, blood circulation, metabolism and digestion. There are so
many challenges which are associated with mental health. It includes two major psychotic
disorders which are dementia and psychosis. Most of the older people suffer from dementia that
may cause poor memory, intolerance of changes, disorientation, people feel rest lessens and they
can't sleep properly. These people face difficulty on judgement and suffer from sever mental
depression. In old age people dementia may cause delusion and hallucination. Psychosis is
follow by physiological symptom such as small strokes that cause brain damage. Old people face
challenges in psychosis such as weakness, dizziness, depression, memory defect and feel
confusion. In this condition old people did not take interest in their routine work because of lake
of motivation. People can't do their work independently and they want supports for do their
work.(Cho, Bonn and Li, 2019).
Old age people suffer from several mental and physical issue. Mental sickness may not
possible only due to an injury or any kind of trauma but may occur due to some emotional or
sensational problems. Feeling alone is one of the such major in this scenario where young
generation is involved with some work and the old at home feel isolated and feel not worthy
enough that gives them some mental trauma. Financial issue in family also cause mental harm to
the old at home.(Chang and et. al., 2020).
Challenges and realistic solutions for the Elderly
The ageing comes along with many challenges. Old age people face many challenges that
are associated with their mental and physical health. physical disability includes pain in body,
problem in body movement, difficulties in doing daily activity, loss of senses such as hearing
loss, visual loss, problem in speaking and mental disorder such as, dementia, schizophrenia, post-
traumatic stress disorder, eating disorder. The physical disability have an impact on individual's
stamina, mobility and body functions. They always need a support to do their work. They need
some one's support in walking as they cannot walk without support because their muscle
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strength decreases.So there is higher possibility of fracture even in a small risk. sometimes they
need wheelchair for movement. So, they need ramp instead of ladder which made easy
transportation of wheelchair (Cao and et.al., 2020).
Due to decrease in muscle strength, they face difficulty in bending or setting. The
decrease in muscle strength in old age people impairing their eye sight weak. So, they face
difficulty in clear vision along with some other diseases like glaucoma, cataract etc.As the old
age people face difficulty in clear vision of distant or a near object clear which turn out to cause
some other problems such as accident in road crossing, difficulty in reading. They need support
in road crossing to avoid accident (Wang,Yang, and Cheng, 2018).
There may be a multiple risk factors in old age people which are associated with the
mental health. The most common risk include dementia and depression. As the dementia is a
syndrome which cause deterioration in memory, thinking ability to perform daily activities. The
most of the old age people face dementia (Hansen and et.al., 2020).
In the care of old age people, it is extremely important to understand the old age people
need or their requirements. As old age people need a support to do their regular work so there is
need of trained professional who help g them in doing their work. As the trained professional
help them in bathing, cleaning, changing their clothes etc. The trained professional helps them in
walking, crossing road al well as help them in reading or even help them to feeding foods or
medicine. The old age people who cannot afford the trained person then they get their primary
care on home based and it has been successful in caring.(Manzar, Pandi-Perumal and
Bahammam, 2020).
As this care is being evaluated in a medicare demonstration in caring for elderly at home.
It is cost effective and provides an essential care for old age people. The trained nursing facility
is benificial in caring of old age people who is suffering from dementia or alzeimers disease. The
nurse helps them to take medicine in given time. Nurses help the old age people to follow strict
diet which is benificial for their health growth. They help them to maintain adequate physical
activity which required to improve body movement.(Schäfer and et.al., 2019).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion it is concluded that there are different types of population and there
problems such as physical and mental problems. It concluded that the dementia is the most
common problem in old age people. Due to which they face many challenges in doing daily
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activity. The challenges includes problem in road crossing, in walking, setting, difficult in
reading properly and in seeing object clearly. It also conclude the solution of problem such as
proving health care team in the care of old age people. The member included in the team are
pharmacist, nurses, trained professional, social care and family member support etc.
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