Well Being in Society

Well Being in Society

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Concepts related to well being...............................................................................................3
Issues being faced in the well-being of older people.............................................................4
Strategies/Recommendation for enhancing the well-being of elderly people........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Wellbeing is referred as a condition of a group or an individual. It can also be said as the
quality of life that people live and how well their lives going on. The individuals must have
strong relationships in their lives as absence of these will limits their ability to thrive. Healthy
relationships also impact and individual physically and mentally (Best, Manktelow and Taylor,
2014). Good relationships with other people in society can help individual to live longer, become
healthy and manage stress appropriately. This report is based on wellbeing of older people in
society and aims to discuss about the emergence of well-being agenda. This project includes
discussion about concepts associated with well-being as well as the main issues that are related
to well-being of older people. Apart from this, it also discusses the strategies or initiatives that
seek to improve well-being of older people. At last, a brief conclusion is included which
provides the summary of entire report.
MAIN BODY
Concepts related to well being
Wellbeing is defined as the experience of happiness, health and prosperity. It involves
having high life satisfaction, good mental health, ability to manage and a sense of purpose or
meaning. Well-being involves so many positive things such as socially connected, purposeful,
feeling happy and healthy. According to the definition provided by World Health Organisation,
well-being is defined as a state of complete social, mental and physical well-being of an
individual. It is meaningful for individuals and for various sectors of society as it tells that people
perceiving about their lives that it is going well. It is the interconnected and diverse dimensions
of mental, physical and social well-being. It involves activities in choices that aims to
accomplish mental alacrity, a sense of accomplishment, physical vitality, social satisfaction and
personal fulfilment (Danermark, Ekström, and Karlsson, 2019).
Wellbeing integrates the physical and mental health which resulted in more holistic
approaches to Health promotion and prevention of diseases. It is an outcome that is valuable and
meaningful to the public that measure beyond mortality, economic status and morbidity that tells
about the way individuals perceive their life is going as per their own perspective. As per the
different studies, it has been found that well-being is related to longevity, mental and physical
illness, healthy behaviours, self-perceived health, productivity, social connectedness and factors