The Impact of Social Factors on the Health of Older Adults: A Report

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................3
PROMOTING WELL BEING FOR DISABLE ELDERLY THROUGH ACTIVITIES..................................4
EFFECT OF SOCIAL FACTORS IN MAINTAINING HEALTH OF OLDER PEOPLE...............................8
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Health plays a vital role in the life of every individual, it is necessary to take the proper care of
health in order to do live life with great happiness and efficiency. There are many types of
health issues faced by the people belonging to the older age background. The people of the old
age need proper care in terms of the physical as well as the mental aspects (Steptoe et al.,
2015). There are a certain set of solutions through which the older people can live the happy
life such as by introducing the activities in their daily life which gives them relaxation would
control the mental stress which serves as the home for many diseases such as blood pressure,
heart attack. If the elder people are disabled than the task or the activity should be provided by
which they feel happy and find themselves capable of doing the work with their own will
(DeNora, 2016).
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PROMOTING WELL BEING FOR DISABLE ELDERLY THROUGH ACTIVITIES
Approaches to health with an emphasis on the social model
Health in the life of every individual serves as an important asset, as it serves as the base of
living. The term social can be defined by the combination of the various elements such as the
cultural factors, economic factors, environmental factors, social factors. It serves to be an
approach in terms of the community which helps in identifying the diseases and the sickness
caused by the diseases (Chen et al., 2016). The social factors mainly focus on the policies,
increment towards the health, education. The social model with respect to the care of older
people with disabilities can be defined on the basis of the 5 major principles, defined as:
 A- Its aim is to focus upon the address such as the social and economic status of the
person, location in which the physical environment is defined.
 R- Its defines to serve every person of the society as the equal individual which will is
not being discriminated on the basis of the color, gender, and the physical locations.
 E- It defines the empowerment factor where the individuals and the communities have
the right to take the decision in terms of their own health matters (Paggi et al., 2016).
 A- It defines the accessibility of the people in order to take the benefit of the high-level
instruments and the technology which serves helpful in increasing the life duration of
the people.
 I- It defines the involvement of the people such as the stakeholders which helps in
overcoming the causes of the loss in the proper treatment such as the environmental
and the social factors (Azimi et al., 2017).
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Figure 1: Health
Source: (Chen et al., 2016).
Wellbeing and wellness
The wellbeing is the state of being fit and fine in terms of the physical, social and psychological
factors. For the older people the state of being well serves as the challenging task as they have
a high age issue along with the weak bone and muscle strength, in such case the wellbeing and
the wellness of the older people can be achieved by introducing the set of activities which may
serve the older people to make the life easy going and healthy (Milligan et al., 2015).
 Active Body: To stay healthy and active it’s necessary for the body and the brain to work
with some task, and this can be done by doing any small job which may be part time or
full time depending on the capacity of the person. It also helps in maintaining proper
dignity within the society.
 Exercise Daily: In order to keep the body fit and healthy it is necessary to follow the set
of exercises which suits on the body and the nature of the elder people, to accomplish
this task the small camp can be organized within which the general exercise is defined
for the older people (Milligan et al., 2015).
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 Go with the change: There have been several types of changes occurred in the lifestyle
of the humans, the older people should be given the detailed knowledge about the
changes happening within the world, to achieve this game activity relating to the
geographical areas and the innovations can be made.
Figure 2: Wellbeing and wellness in older people
Source: (Milligan et al., 2015)
Barriers to healthy lifestyles
The barriers to a healthy lifestyle can be defined as:
 Time: It is the important factor which can be served as the barrier in the healthy lifestyle
among the older people, if the improper management of time is done than appropriate
exercises and the diet plan could not be followed, resulting in the rise of many new
diseases.
 Priority: It is necessary to set the priority to the exercises and the healthy activities,
which serve as the barrier in the older people as they have been following the different
routine from many years (Connolly et al., 2017).
 Taste: In the old age most of the people have the problem of diabetes, blood pressure
and in such case, they are advised to stock on the healthy diet, which may not be
followed because the taste serves as the barrier in achieving the healthy diet.
 Habits: It is difficult for the older person to unfollow the daily life routine, followed by
many years, in order to focus towards the demand of the body to eat healthily and stay
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fit. This serves as the barrier because it may be difficult for the person to follow the new
lifestyle (Connolly et al., 2017).
 Depression and Anxiety: These two are the most common terms defined within the old
age lifestyle and time period, if the old person is suffering from the problem of anxiety
and depression the person may not have the will to be healthy and fit for the remaining
years of life (Connolly et al., 2017).
Service user engagement and/or involvement
The service user involvement can be defined as the capacity of the user to be involved within
the field of the research in terms of the health. The service user involvement includes the set of
the elements and the factors which can be classified on the basis of the following points:
 It deals with the issues related to the campaign which has been organized to generate
the set of values and awareness among the people related to the health issues.
 It serves helpful in the delivery of the services to the people in a positive way leading to
the effective impact of the services upon the people (Azimi et al., 2017).
 By the agreement of the user and service, there can be the possibility of developing the
new set of skills within the older people which helps in a healthy lifestyle.
 It helps in fulfillment of the requirements defined by the Contract monitors and the
care commissions (Weare, 2015).
 It can help in the increase of the knowledge among the older people in the field of
technology and development resulting in acquiring sufficient knowledge about the
health conditions and the solutions.
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EFFECT OF SOCIAL FACTORS IN MAINTAINING HEALTH OF OLDER
PEOPLE
Social support and community networks
The set of activities which can be defined are:
 Connecting with the people: At the old age the person should have a sufficient amount
of friends from which they can share their daily routine conversations, thus helps in
relaxing their mind and refreshing of the mood, by which the chances of getting the
disease decreases as the things within the mind and heat are shared with the other
person (Finlay et al., 2015).
 Family: If the culture defined within the house is positive and stress-free than the
chances of suffering from the disease gets decreased in an automatic manner. Thus the
proper love and care towards the elder people should be shown by the family member
who keeps them happy.
In order to be fit and healthy, it is necessary to define the healthy routing on the regular
basis such as going for the short walk in morning and evening which helps in inhaling the
fresh oxygen, keeping the lungs healthy (Pichora-Fuller, 2016).
Figure 3: Social factors
Source: (Pichora-Fuller, 2016).
Sociological perspectives of health and illness
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Health and social factors serve to be interrelated in terms of older people health. The social
model can be defined as the layout leading to the improvement in the health of the people and
their wellbeing by emplacing towards the environment and the social aspects in terms of the
health.
 Its defines to serve every person of the society as the equal individual which will is not
being discriminated on the basis of the color, gender, and the physical locations. It helps
in reducing the effect of such factors over the health of the person (Kelly et al., 2016).
 E- It defines the empowerment factor where the individuals and the communities have
the right to take the decision in terms of their own health matters, by actively
participating in the health matters which may increase the possibility of the living long
within the older people.
 By providing sufficient knowledge to the people so the people don't get any diseases.
 By increasing the area of contacts between the government as well as the non-
government organizations (Kelly et al., 2016).
Figure 4: Sociological in health and illness
Source: (Kelly et al., 2016).
 By establishing the positive environment around the elder people by which they find the
way to live.
Despite such activities many other activities can be involved which can be defined on the basis
of the type of disease the person has been suffering (Kelly et al., 2016).
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Health and illness in relation to particular social groups
The social factors play a major role in defining the health and the illness of the person in the
case of older people. There are many types of social groups in which the health of the person is
classified as the main cause of worry among the people. There are many social groups under
the NHS which serve the effective in defining the health and illness (Sallis et al., 2015). In the
case of health, the NHS aims to establish the set of campaigns where the theories related to the
health are defined by the experts to the older people with the motive to get the positive
response from the older people in terms of maintaining the health by implementing the set of
activities defined within the camps. The motive of the social group is to make the
implementation effective by the collective group of the older people, which can learn the way
to live by seeing their friends within the campaign (Li and Zhang, 2015).
Another aim of the social groups is to generate effective approaches for the health by defining
the ethics and the nature of behavior within the society and the community. They also focus on
the independent nature generation among the older people where the people are made
capable enough to deal with the daily routine of themselves with the standalone way(Li and
Zhang, 2015).
Figure 5: Social Factors in health
Source:( Li and Zhang, 2015)
Introduction to project management
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The project management in the field of health care includes majorly 4 phases which have been
defined as:
1) Initiation: It serves as the base of project management. At this stage, the set of peoples
are defined which have the capability to deal with the older people in an effective way,
and the list is generated for the execution of the ideas.
2) Planning: In order to maintain the health of the older people the initiatives are taken by
the social groups and the trusts such as the NHS to design the campaigns for the older
people by organizing the set of activities which serve helpful for the people in enhancing
their health-related issues (Assari, 2018).
3) Execution: After the planning of the ideas and plans it is necessary to serve the ideas in
an effective way towards the desired goal. The execution here determines the set of
steps taken by the social groups to make the lifestyle of the older people healthy.
4) Closure: After the successful implementation and the execution of the project the end
step is the closure where the short summary related to the dos and don’ts are defined
by the social groups in the sector of healthy living (Assari, 2018).
Figure 6: Health and project management
Source: (Assari, 2018)
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CONCLUSION
There are many factors upon which the health of the person belonging to the older age group
depends. The theory stated above gives the brief about the fact that he does the social changes
and causes play important role in determining the health of the older people, by classifying the
various elements of the cause such as the social factors including the gender (Balatsoukas et al.,
2015), economic status of the person upon which the level of the treatment of the person can
be defined in terms of the economic conditions. The theory also states about the wellbeing of
the people by implementing the set of rules within the daily routine. It also deals with the
factors due to which the illness and the health of the older person get interlinked with the
factors like the social, economic and environmental issues (Balatsoukas et al., 2015).
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