User Pay Model of Care for Affordable Aged Care: Health and Socio-Political Issues

Running Head: HEALTH AND SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUES
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Age, social and political issues influence the health of a population. This essay discusses
the user pay model of care which seeks to support affordable aged care through an increase in
financial contributions to aged care costs for those who can afford it.
The user care model creates initiatives to pass rules and regulations that prohibit age
inequity in the delivery of health care services .The discussions of the legal scholars have
disclosed that our on-going legal defense would not stop the formation and enactment of
government strategies that would use old age as a premise for issuing inadequate healthcare
resources. (Nigam & Ocasio, 2010). Services provided are for aged individuals who require
additional assistance so as to live their lives as self-reliant as possible, those who are vulnerable
or who may require security and services such as day care, nursing, and residential care
The model focuses on practical management of older patients in all areas through
offering services which include providing health care services in the community from one of the
dependencies to one of capacity building for the older person that motivate self-management and
independence. It promotes and extends the time in which people lead healthy, active and
fulfilling lives. Through the user pay model system older people are offered support and
preventive services that are available to them. Increasing demands for health and social care
reinforce the importance of considering how those services should are supposed funded (Tamiya
et al, 2011). All funding arrangements must be equitable and must not discriminate against any
group including older adults.
The user pay model also leads to stereotyping that result in differential treatment. Age
categorization that arises in health care settings may also include thoughts of healthcare
providers that ageing individuals will not gain from specific health care practices. Old patients

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may be stereotyped due to false information as a result misconception and lack of knowledge.
Most medics refer to studies that measure the outcome of different treatments within comparable
groups. Lack of recognition of the evidence-based literature on the treatment of seniors leads to
discrimination thus even the well-intentioned physician may use chronological age as a
prominent surrogate for physiological maturity.
Chronic disease prevalence is rising and at 80% estimation of the gross burden of
diseases is calculated in disability life adjustment. Illnesses that become persistent can prevail
across life cycle but more widespread with older age, especially the frail age. There will be an
escalate in the number of older people with a variety of intricate conditions linked to the
symptoms of chronic diseases .the user-pay model may not cover all of them because of
discrimination (Henderson, Willis, Xiao, Toffoli, & Verrall, 2016).Contradictory jurisdictional
financing responsibilities among the state and other institutions have produced a sophisticated
service and difficulty across the aged health sector regarding providing finances, management,
and conveyance of services across the continuum of care.
The user pay model integrates long-term disease management principles of self-
management in service delivery and early diagnosis of diseases. The delivery of the schemes and
services are targeted at the dominant sector since there is an opportunity for health providers to
capitalize on the soaring levels of mobility, independence, optimism. They are attributes of this
group of people and initiate a variety of health promotion and preventive policies that maintain
the healthy aging process (Duckett & Willcox, 2015). The services are provided by encouraging
the development of self-managing skills so that they can control the symptoms of the ailments
they may have. They introduce community care services that emphasize on their ability to