Lesser Contact with Children Plays a Role

• The basic problem with elderly people in he land of Australia is, lack of family members to care for them.
• In this age of globalization it is expected that children would move out for better career opportunities , reason behind poor health conditions for some of the aged people of Australia.

• Young residents of Australia are socially aware of their responsibilities towards the elderly people of their country.
• They wholeheartedly contributes according to their capability in the social security fund made by the government of Australia.
• It is seen that government proactively looks after the elderly people and spend money from the fund whenever needed.

1. Arthritis, this disease affects most of the people who are above 65 years old.

2. It is seen that more than 50% population of elderly people are affected by this disease.

3. In recent years it is found that cardiovascular diseases are the deadliest disease  of all, as it kills more than 500000 aged adults each year on an average.

4. It is seen that after cardiovascular diseases,  Cancer is the second most dangerous killer.

5. It is seen that over 28% elder men and over 21% elder women dies of cancer each year.

6. In recent times Alzheimer has emerged as a new threat for the elder people.

7. Diabetes is another deadly disease which is spreading among not only aged people but among the young generation also.

8. Depression in one silent killer of modern age.

9. It is seen that is most cases elder people sty estranged from their children and relatives and that causes acute depression .

10. Slowly silently this affects the old generation and leads to their painful death at times.

Though in general  transportation system in Australia is better than any other developed countries, but in some rural areas due to lack of proper transportation many people do not get proper medical support and suffer a lot.

It is undeniable that in urban areas of Australia, the transportation system is more than good, but in some rural areas and coastal areas, the transportation system is pathetic, and each year more than 50 people die due to not being able to receive proper medical support when needed

Technological Advancement is the Key to improve Medical Support

• Medical science is a sector where continuous technological advancement is needed for the ailment of the patients and as well for the further research to prevent diseases and many more.

United we stand

1. Australian government needs to collaborate with private medical organizations to reach every individual who are senior citizens to provide them proper medical supports.

2. By this collaboration more people would get benefitted by the latest technologies, those are used by the private medical organizations only in most cases.

There should be fairness in distribution of the services

1. It is seen that there are some cases, when the aged aboriginal people of Australia, are deprived of the proper medical support they deserve.

2. There should be equity of getting necessary medical supports between every individual.

3. Arrangement of proper transportation should be made by the government for the aboriginal people who reside at the  most rural regions of the country.

Social Awareness

Government shuts down educational program for aboriginal people

1. Recently government of Australia has shut down the educational programs which were designed for the aboriginal people.

2. This is hugely affecting the lifestyle and health condition of them.

3. At times they do not get necessary medical help from the government.

Creating a new department for visiting the most rural areas of the nation, to search for the aged indigenous people to provide with proper medical support would help a lot in this circumstances.

The reluctance of the government towards providing with medical supports with alibi of not having enough transportation system is something intolerable. Officials of the government should look into this matter with high priority to maintain equity in services like medical support to all the aged people of the country

1. Government should collaborate with private organizations for the betterment of the situation.

2. Government should invest more in technological advancement.

3. Transportation  system should be improved in order to reach to all the aged people of the most rural areas.

4. Arranging campaigns for raising social awareness regarding health issues of the elderly people.

5. Government should employ a department to find out the aged people who needs medical support in the most rural areas.

6. NGOs and social activists should come up taking the responsibilities of the elderly people’s health issues.

7. Government should invest more in infrastructure to increase the capability of the government medical institutions to house more patients seeking medical help.

8. Government can employ some indigenous people to make sure that the aboriginal people does not hesitate to seek help from the government.

9. Government should employ another department to check whether the operation of providing medical help to the elder people is running smooth or not.

10. Australian government must promote about their programs regarding providing help to the elderly people to let more people know about their programs, so that they could provide services to more aged people of Australia.

• In today’s market the costs regarding medical issues have been seen getting higher than ever and the rate of increasing the costs have became much more rapid in recent years.
• There are many instances, where people do not seek proper medical help due to the costs and in most of the private organizations the cost does matter for some aged people.

Sometimes, the government of Australia can collaborate with neighboring nations to reach up to most of the aged people, as when more than one organizations work together innovative ideas and investments flows smoothly and the work rate gets an immense boost.

In Australia, it is seen that in many occasions the aboriginal people get mistreated by the regular white people of Australia, and that is intolerable in today’s world.

Key Challenges of Elderly People

1. Getting depressed in today’s world for the elder people has become a common issue. Due to globalization many people have to shift to other states or other countries and they cannot give much time to their parents.

2. This can cause result in serious depression issues for the elderly persons and government should look into this matter with concern.

3. Government can employ another department to visit the aged people at least once a week to comfort them , as depression is a silent killer and can lead to much graver issues.

1. The government can build more clinics and hospitals in the rural areas where there are not many health centers but the population is dense.

2. Building more health centers  would allow more people to get cured in time and this would eliminate the waiting process in the government’s health organizations.

1. It is government’s duty to raise the awareness among the medical team regarding their duty to provide the much needed medical support to the elder population.

2. The doctors , other medical staffs and nonmedical staffs should be aware of the fact they should behave properly with the aged people as they can be more sensitive in some issues than any other people.

3. Government should employ motivational speakers to motivate these types of medical team to do their job properly for the benefit of the society.

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