Titlebook: Elderly Care; A world perspective Ken Tout (Honorary Research Fellow, First Visiting Book 1993 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 19

arousal

不利

Philosophie als Lehre vom glücklichen Lebend. According to the 1989 Demographic Review of these islands it has been projected that, by the year 2001, the percentage of the population over 60 years of age will be 26.2% of males and a massive 35.1% of females.

ineluctable

,Glück, Lebensalter und soziale Faktoren,he individual. It must satisfy the needs and growing demands which appear over the course of life’s development. The Cuban programmes to be described will therefore relate to the realization of the individual’s full humanity within the existing community of whatever advanced age.

反復(fù)無常

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-2319-9dent household. Out of a total population of around 15 million, almost 2 million are over 65 and some 7% of this age group live in a residential home. Admission to a home is not open to all elderly people, but based on an assessment of the need for care, which is made by a local intake committee.

Exposition

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91915-1ypically providing neither cooking facilities nor private bathrooms, the’ single room occupancy’ hotels in which most of the residents live constitute the bottom rung of the housing ladder in the USA. For the low income elderly in such environments, poor health, social isolation and powerlessness are often intimately connected.

CLASH

insincerity

The prospect for a greying world and black would be more to the point. What will be the colour of the ink at the bottom of society’s balance sheet when ageing populations make unprecedented demands on our national resources in the coming decades? Particularly in our Third World, where still another social burden could finally strangle the crucial process of development?

Interregnum

The family undisturbed — intergenerational realities in traditional Africational cultures basically different from the West. Understanding the roots of the high evaluation of the old in the concrete setting of tribal black Africa leads us to decipher, by this paradigm, one of the most central problems of African cultures in turmoil and transition.

leniency

Family realities is the problem of a weakening family structure. For industrialized societies there is the question of whether the weakened family structure can be rehabilitated. But, as yet, relatively little has been said, often because of taboos, about the real quality of family care.

Foregery

All found at homeith a peer relative or friend, a substantial input of services may be necessary in cases of physical or mental deterioration. Where a younger person, usually a woman, has general care of the elder a somewhat different ‘package’ of support may be necessary where the enabling of the carer is called for, rather than the enabling of the care receiver.