The NCLB program has become an aging debate. Based on which end of the spectrum you are on will skew your thinking on rather this new law hampers or helps the children of the future. Has this new law reduced the numbers of drop out students, increased graduation readiness and improved strategies to main stream students into either college or career? The answer is yes. Under the federal act, every student was supposed to test on grade level in reading and math by 2014 at 100 percent proficiency.…
It is a normal night, just like every other night. You are sitting on your couch flipping through the channels, and you see a scene that catches your eye. A documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling.…
My place of research interest is Brooklyn, which is located in Kings County in New York. Brooklyn is the fastest growing borough in the New York. This population increase has resulted in gentrification, which has caused displacement of certain racial groups due to higher property values. In 2014, Brooklyn’s population was 2,504,700. Of the total population, 97% classified them themselves as belonging to one race - 42.8% identify as White (1,072,041), 34.3% Black or African American (860,083), 0.5% American Indian and Alaska Native (13,524), 10.5% Asian (262,276), 0.0% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (1,243), and 8.8% some other race (219,229).…
The Aging Network is a federal program that inquires the diverse needs of the aging community. The Older Americans Act established a national network of federal, state, and local agencies to plan and offer services that assist older adults to live independently in their homes and community. These unified organizations of agencies are known as the National Aging Network. The Older Americans Act sponsors the Aging Network that has resources in other agencies, programs and activities. Medicare is a part of the Aging Network.…
he term Gentrification is coined together by a British Sociologist Ruth Glass to describe the movement of middle class families into urban areas causing the property value to increase and displacing the older settlers. In the past decades, gentrification have been defined and refined depending on the neighborhood 's economic, social and political context. According to Davidson and Less definition, a gentrified area should include investment in capital, social upgrading, displacement of older settlers and change in landscape. Many urban cities like Chicago, Michigan and Boston have experienced gentrification, however, it is affecting the Harlem residents more profoundly, uprooting the people who have been living there for decades, thus destroying…
The life expectancy of people is increasing globally with advances in medical technology contributing to aging population worldwide. With the increment of the elderly population, the issues and challenges affecting the health and quality of life of aged people is increasing as well. In Canada, although the majority of seniors live in private households, the need for institutionalization is likely to grow for the seniors due to factors such as death of family members or friends, changing family structures, increased probability of living alone, compromised health status and retirement from the workplace. Retirement homes, residential care homes and nursing homes or long term care homes are some kinds of facilities where most of the seniors…
Assignment 6: Successful Aging A) Article Summary "Definition of Successful Aging by Canadian Males" gives a glimpse into the idea of successful aging. It informs us that that the idea of successful aging dates back to 44BC in an essay by Cicero. However, the western definition comes from a 1944 decision of the American Social Science Research Council. The study of successful age has been divided in the two groups: clinical standards and psychosocial theories. Numerous studies on the concept of successful aging discussed in the article.…
The objective of this report is to provide a concise comparison of the different demographic profiles for a geographic location at three different geographic scales. The report consist of brief analysis of general population and housing characteristics at three different geographic scales. The demographic profile data used for the report was extracted and compiled from the 2010 Census tract. The smallest scale of geographic location I picked is 7600 212th St SW, Edmonds, WA 98026.…
We’re all going to get old. It’s not something people want or like to think about. In fact, some people, even adults, are hesitant to spend time with elderly people because it can remind them of their own mortality. [5] There’s no doubt that some aspect of aging will be uncomfortable or undesirable. [1] Whether it’s your family pushing you into a senior living center, having health issues, facing age discrimination or really just having your body fail (which it surely will), some part of aging is going to suck.…
Due to the sheer size of the group, the baby boomer generation have influenced politics, economics, and society at each stage of their life. They enter old age with a very different experience, influence, and societal impact than senior groups have in the past (Fey, 2010; Pruncho, 2012). The demographic composition of the aging population are also changing with respect to two characteristics: race and geography. The aging populace is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse population than previous aging populations (Ortman & Velkoff, 2014). Additionally, the elderly have continued to be a large part of the populous in the Southern areas, but with the younger population migration decline and the limited offset of the increasing aging population there is a greying of the Midwest, Appalachia, and Northeastern (Frey, 2010, 2015; Kent, Lee, & Mather,…
Surveying this community it is evident that the essential means to live are provided. The neighborhood is sanitary, no trash is present on the ground, sidewalks are safe, and proper lighting is present. The community is mostly outside of city limits and the houses are farther apart. The elder community is a separate neighborhood consisting of about 40 housing units which are duplexes. The Elder Community consist of approximately 80…
• Three important information that helps to understand my population. Why? And how help? The three main ideas I found interested are the need for emphasis to place on non-medical psychosocial needs of the resident at care facilities.…
Academically speaking the singular greatest thing that was taken away this semester is the conditions and situations of the current aging and elderly prison populations in the United Sates corrections system The specialty populations that consist of the elderly which in essences if forcing the states to address the special and particular segment of the prison population Needless to say as the human body progresses with age so to the afflictions that culminate with these afflictions, from the medical, to the mental health care of these people Some would argue that projects and programs that are put into place are excessive, extravagant, or even a type of privilege at tax payer expense that is not afforded to the average citizen, but any real…
Over the past few decades and in the coming decades the structure of United States’ population is expected to change greatly. Changes in population are primarily focused on the older population as it is “important to public and private interest, both socially and economically” (Ortman, Velkoff, 2014, p. 1). To put it into perspective, the population of those 65 and over in 2050 is expected to be 83.7 million compared to the 431 million in 2012 mostly due to the baby boomer generation. While the aging population provides the nation with great qualities such as work ethic, wisdom, leadership, legacy, inspiration, values, tradition, and culture, there are several concerns that arise with a population that contains a distortional amount of older…
Elderly drivers more common, causing more accidents Advances in science, nutrition, societal infrastructure and health care allow us to live longer than ever before. The average U.S. life span is now 78.7 years (76 for men, 81 for women). This means that, in essence, our country’s population is skewing older. The United States Census Bureau estimates that America’s population of residents aged 65 or older will reach more than 83 million by the year 2050; this represents almost twice the 2012 population of the same demographic.…