Elderly Isolation

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Elderly Isolation

• Soumya Sarah Alex
• Erangi Aluwihare
• Ninja N. Christian
• Ripple Macwan
• Bijal Patel
• Nitin Saini

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Elder Abuse - It's Time To Face The Reality
(Video)

• http//www.seniors.gc.ca/c.4nt.2nt3c.4l_at_.jsp?lang
  enggeo110cid161

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Introduction

• The social problem that we chose to analyze for
  this project is elderly isolation. Social
  isolation of older citizens is one of the
  emerging problems of our society which has not
  received its due importance. Anyone can become
  isolated socially but seniors are especially at
  risk of social isolation. 

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Introduction - Continued

• The social isolation among seniors might be due
  to many reasons. Some of them includes lose of
  spouse, living alone without any family, poor
  health, and retirement.
• Elderly isolation is a type of neglect and is
  abuse, which is a crime in Canada.

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Social Analysis

• What is the social problem?
• The social problem that we choice, as mentioned
  before is elderly isolation.
• Who defines it? 
• Since we all have or is in some way or form
  touched by an elderly person in our lives, the
  simple answer to the question is that society
  defines elderly isolation as a problem.

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Social Analysis - Continued

• Why is it considered a social problem?
• Elderly isolation causes depression in the
  elderly that can lead to a premature death.
• More seniors are being isolated and being send to
  nursing homes and the government have to spend
  more money on these homes.

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Social Analysis - Continued

• Who or what effected?
• Families
• Communities
• Economy or even global economy

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Social Analysis - Continued

• Who benefits?
• Overall no one benefits. Maybe the family for a
  short amount of time.
• Who loses?
• Elderly
• Society

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Social Analysis - Continued

• What are possible solutions?
• Educate the public of elderly isolation and to
  make the seniors part of the community again and
  eliminating the loneliness in their life.
• Being students, we have the greatest opportunity
  of conveying our message to the most important
  and the strongest in the society, the youth.

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Social Analysis - Continued

• What is the overall cost to society?
• Micro level Depression, premature death,
  diminished quality of life, potential for abuse,
  physical as well as mental declining of health.
• Meso level Communities not getting resources
  that the elderly would have to offer.
• Macro level Money that the government has to pay
  to keep our seniors save and taken care of in
  nursing homes.

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Action Plan

• Here are some things that we thought students are
  able to do
• We could meet with some of the elderly
  population.
• Prepare a good and effective story that reflects
  the problems that the old people are facing.
• Post it on facebook and printouts can be
  distributed in the schools.
• Paste printouts on the bus stops and subway
  stations in the malls and where crowds of all
  age groups are present.

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Action Plan - Continued

• We can use blogs to advertise this issue and
  create awareness.
• In college we can talk to the young people about
  the problems of senior isolation.
• We can also have street plays depicting the
  isolation as a social problem and spread
  awareness about it so it can be prevented.
• Banners can be made and once college work has
  been done even they can spread awareness in their
  groups.

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Current Social Action Initiatives

• Seniors Canada Working for Seniors
• http//www.seniors.gc.ca/c.4nt.2nt3c.4l_at_.jsp?lang
  enggeo110cid161

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Reference

• Seniors Canada (2009). Elder Abuse - It's Time To
  Face The Reality Web. Available from
  http//www.seniors.gc.ca/c.4nt.2nt3c.4l_at_.jsp?lang
  enggeo110cid161
• Seniors Canada- working for seniors. (2011, July
  14). Retrieved from http//www.seniors.gc.ca/c.4nt
  .2nt3c.4l_at_.jsp?langenggeo110cid161

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Questions

• What type of elderly abuse did our group use as
  our social issue?
• Elderly Neglect Elderly Isolation

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Questions

• Name one of the ways our group talked about
  informing the public of this issue?
• Use social network sites to spread the word.
• Use public places to inform the public of this
  issue.
• Create a drama or a play to convey this problem.