Health And Socio-Political Issues In Aged Care

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Health And Socio-Political Issues In Aged Care
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Introduction
Currently, there are close to six hundred million people who are sixty years and above in
the whole world. Statistics project that seven years down the line the number is likely to
double and in essence two billion come the year 2050 (Kooienga &Carryer 2015). Primary
health care is among the key principles for health care services delivery in a country's local
level of the health system.
When there is a deviation from the normal functioning of the body, a patient is normally
required to seek primary health care. Primary health care refers to the first encounter
someone has with the health care system when they are ill or health condition that does not
require urgent attention.
Primary health care aims beyond service provision by clinics through improved first
prevention in older people aid in the promotion of health. The Republic of Colombia in the
year 2011 experienced a remarkable change in her primary health care through the adoption
of a standard approach.
To begin with, eight communities from Cundinamarca and Bogota, Colombia went
through a series of interventions to aid in campaigns of increasing public awareness in order
to induce a state of well-being. Some of the activities that were spearheaded by this campaign
included, giving leaders in the community a chance to take part in training to boost
implementation of health initiatives so as to curb puzzling circumstances scrutinized by their

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organizations. Twenty-seven commanders who participated managed to successfully
complete the training process.
A lot of people prefer primary health care and it can be made available by, a family doctor,
massager or a pharmaceutical chemist (Devy et al. 2015). Primary Health Care for the elderly
include the following practices: prevention of health-related complications, good health
promotion, medical care for people with illness, premature intervention and controlling
continuing and persistent health conditions (Bitton et al. 2017).
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Colombia is among the countries in the world where primary health care for the old has
been upheld. Some of the ways through which care has been provided to the elderly using
Primary Health Care and factors that have enabled its implementation include the following:
Help from hospital managers and local mayors, organizations within the community, the
dedication of health workers and health care teams, proper coordination, and prolonged
political stability within the country. However, the above-mentioned enablers had a massive
failure due to the factors that have been illustrated below,
Organizations within the community
Despite communities being active historically and well organized (Aguirre-Duarte 2015)in
participation, many of the participants were self-centered and mostly served interests of their
commanders, persuaded by other institutions within the district or a group of people
constituting a particular side in legal action.