Navigating Aging: Preparation, Impact, and Positive Perspectives
Aging as a Project: Early Preparation
Become aware of the attention given to aging. Be the master of your old age and even death. Prepare by knowing the real condition of the elderly, maintaining a critical attitude towards the social perception of old age, and cultivating your desires.
Impact of Aging
Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, and cerebrovascular accident (CVA) can significantly impact aging.
Psychological Loss
Fluid intelligence may decline.
Social Changes
Retirement, loss of family and friends, and changes in social networks are common social changes associated with aging. Rethinking existential death is also important.
Needs to Pay Attention To
The loss of work and retirement create needs for activities and alternative uses of time. Retirement also demands specific health cures and more frequent use of different products and wellness resources. Individuals and communities need to embrace changes in family dynamics related to the reorganization of time and new activities or changes in the family life cycle (Rosow 1967).
Positive Perspectives of Gerontology
Increased awareness of the positive biopsychosocial conditions of human aging and the population. Prevention and health promotion in older people are viewed within the health sciences. Incorporate elements of positive psychology in socio-interventions, focusing on successful adaptation and the competitive strength of the individual and the family.
Family
Stressors
Cognitive Plan
Meaning given to ambiguity and uncertainty. Unpredictability and emotional instability.
Language
Anxiety, fear of pain, suffering, family unit problems, frustration, fear of death, guilt, anger, and sadness.
Daily Activities Plan
Increase in work demands, shift in gender roles and responsibilities, giving up certain dynamic activities.
Interpersonal Relations Plan
- Isolation
- Increased interest in and exchange of emotional support and material dependence
- Overprotection and ambiguity of roles and rules
- Increase or decrease of tensions
- Redefinition of relationships
Health Beliefs and Processes
The perception of an event differs from one individual to another. How a person experiences a situation is conditioned by their own unique structure. The individual’s belief system determines their perception of reality. Individual beliefs, family systems, and the sociocultural context of health professionals all play a role.
Pricing Model Calgaray Family
Internal Structure
Family composition, range, sub-genre, sexual orientation, and boundaries.
External Structure
Extended family structure, larger systems.
Context
Ethnicity, social class, religion/spiritual environment.
Genogram
Tools of assessment and intervention, the main elements of the role.
Development
Labor unions, stages, and connections: older families.
Instrumental Performance
Activities of daily living routines.
Expressive Function
Communication (verbal and nonverbal), emotional communication, roles, influence, beliefs, alliances, and coalitions to solve problems.
Development Assessment
Interview
Relationship of trust, preparation environment, respecting the rhythm of the family.
Intervention
Genogram, force survey questions, systems skill, and success.
Retirement
Retirement from the working world for having reached the age required by law or by being unable to work.
Retirement as:
The process of transition from working life to a life without paid work. A period of life that stretches from quitting the job.
Process of Adaptation to Retirement
Retirement attitudes of rejection, as an opportunity, or ambivalent.