Understanding the Elderly

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Understanding the Elderly

• By
• Leonardo Guzman

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Care for the Elderly

• Comfort and support for them
• Understanding their situation
• Dont treat them like kids
• They need to be respected
• Just enjoy there company and they will in joy
  yours

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Elderly life expectancy have grown with medicine
and exercise

• With good medicine elderly have a longer life
  span
• Taking better care of themselves
• Daily exercise and healthy living

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Care Home vs. Home

• Help is around when they need it
• Medicine is available
• Meet new friends
• Caring staff and professional staff available

• Privacy
• Freedom
• Free stay and family gathering

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Kids relate more to the elderly

• They seem to interact more with them
• Enjoy time spent with them playing cards, games,
  and talking about what they did today.

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Pet Therapy with the elderly

• Senior citizens like to see animals
• They feel relax petting the pets
• Pet therapy focus mostly on depress and
  Alzheimer's disease

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Conclusion

• Elderly knows more about life.
• They are living proofs of history in the world
  today
• Soon we will all be like them, so seeing how the
  health care system care for them let us fight for
  a better health care program for them and for us.

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The End