Aging in the 21st

Century
  By:
 Kirk Odrey O. Jimenez B.S.N., R.N.
 Clinical Instructor
 USJR-CON
 Cold and dark as winter,
White as the falling snow,
This is all where life is headed
Where colors gone and faded
- Nick Joaquin
 Aging
It is a continuous,
irreversible,
physical,
psychological,
social, and spiritual
change, from that of
simpler levels of
organization
towards more
complex levels.

- Potter and Perry 2002

 Aging
Population
It is a population
in which people
aging 65 years old
and above exceeds
8-10% of the total
population

-Gavrilov and Heuveline, 2003

Over the past two centuries,
improvements in nutrition,
sanitation, and health care have
dramatically reduced infant
mortality and extended the life
expectancy of children and adults
throughout the world.

- Eiken, 2005
Let’s take a look!
Infant mortality declines and The Country
population growth takes off, tries to control
the country’s population grows population
younger growth

A continuous Reduction of birth

decline in birth rate but with an
increase in the
rate with a decline
working-age groups
of the working-age
group, and an
increase in the
older population
 Over the past 50 years
the elderly population
world wide has tripled
and will more than
triple over the next 50
years
- U.N. Population Division, 2005
 The working population
will have less children but
more elderly people to
take care of
 There will be a decline in
the working population
thus a decline in national
revenue
 Lesser demands for
investment and more
expenditures as retirees
spend off their pension
 Countries will find it
expensive to maintain their
expanding elderly
population, as the working-
age group declines
 There will be a shift in
the focus of financing,
from commerce to
social welfare and
health care.
 There will be a great
strain in the national
pension system
 There will be a great
strain in the adequacy
of healthcare services
 Healthcare shifts from
acute care to chronic
care
“In the Philippines,
the aging
population poses
more problems and
danger. Being an
underdeveloped
country, the
Philippines is at a
higher risk
regarding health
and healthcare. The
medical services
accessible to the
older people here is
insufficient.”
- Monsod, 2008
“Only twenty
geriatricians for 2.9
million people, the
population 65 years
old and older, as
per the 2000
census.”

- The National
Inquirer, 2008
Growth in nursing
demand as health
care demands grow

Up to 800,000 by
the year 2020, in
the United States
alone

- Lorenzo et. al., 2005

Increase
demand for
specialized
training in
geriatric care.
Redefining
nursing services
distribution and
delivery.

Making it more
of reach to the
elderly
Redefining nursing
approach

With emphasis of
appropriate attitudes and
values in the care of the
elderly

Giving importance more to

their developmental needs
and innate humanity
Old age
isn't so bad
when you
consider the
alternative .

~Maurice Chevalier,
New York Times,
You are as young as your
faith, as old as your doubt; as
young as your self-confidence,
as old as your fear; as young
as your hope, as old as your
despair.

~Douglas MacArthur
ADELANTE!