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Healthy Aging Blueprint Problem Statement

The University of Arizona Global Campus

HUD 5420 Interdisc Theories of Ger

Instructor: Gregory Hickman

May 31, 2022

In the ancient days, before civilization, advanced technology, and globalization, people fed on traditional meals that were grown naturally. The situation made it easy for people to work to have ample food to eat. This made it possible for people to engage in activities that maintained the right body status and promoted feeding on healthy products. For this, among many other reasons, people remain safe from contracting lifestyle-related diseases. Civilization, advanced technology, and globalization have, over the years, changed the situation. These factors have brought a massive change in lifestyles from traditional to advanced ones. The changes have reduced the amount of time people have to grow foods, and hence chemicals and other technologies are used to hasten food production in an unhealthy way (Bengtson et al., 2016). At the same time, the cost of living has also pushed people to reserve more time to work, leaving no time to prepare healthy meals, compelling people to depend on packed and fast foods. The limited-time and having all space taken away for development purposes have left people with limited space for physical exercises.

People living in urban areas are affected the most by the current lifestyle, hindering them from having quality health. For instance, people in urban areas record ranks high when feeding on unhealthy diets, lacking physical exercise, drugs and alcohol abuse, and immoral behaviors. The challenge is that these challenges make the people vulnerable to lifestyle diseases like heart diseases, stroke, obesity, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, among others. Failure to have a healthy body ultimately comprises the aging process (Bengtson et al., 2016). Lifestyle diseases cause pain and drain people economically, leading to reduced lifespan and the ability to save for old age. At the same time, the conditions directly affect an individual’s emotions and psychology, which further affects the quality of life decisions that one has to make.

Over the years, lifestyle challenges affecting the impact on the aging process have only been on the rise. For instance, the number of people involved in the early 1950s and 1960s had only doubled by 2000. Currently, in a population of 100 people living in urban areas, at least twenty of them have one or two lifestyle conditions. The situation has also affected my life span. In the early 1950s, the life span was between 70 years and above, and currently, the life span is below seventy, with a majority dying between 50 years and 65. Due to engagement in alcohol consumption, drugs, and smoking among young people, young people between 15 and 30 years dying has risen by 7% from the 1950s to current times.

It is a fact that the quality of lifestyle that one chooses to live is strictly a personal decision. The more reason is that despite the changes, people have remained observant of the kind of food they eat and their drinks. They also engage in physical exercises either by walking or riding instead of using vehicles to get from one location. Surprisingly, the high cost of living makes it hard for people to afford healthy and natural food (Bengtson et al., 2016). There is also a lot of social influence, for instance, in the way foods and prepared as they have embraced unhealthy products to spice up healthy products, directly compromising their effects on the body. It is a challenge to notice that rural-urban immigration and vice versa have also exposed people to some of these advances and their impact in rural areas.

From the fact that the body continues to lose its cells and ability natural generates power as one ages, it has been noted that lifestyle challenges affect older generations from the ages of 35 years and above, with the elderly from the ages of 60 suffering the more. It is primarily due to unhealthy diets affecting how cell regeneration is formed and maintaining internal organs operating normally (Hurst, n.d). Lack of physical exercise also affects the aged more than the younger generation since their muscles are more hardened as they have worked, which hastens the aging process over the years.

Addressing this problem is essential as it would save people in urban and rural areas alike to understand how the lifestyle they prefer leading affects them in terms of aging. Addressing the issue would lead many people to be empowered to lead a healthy life, hence avoiding lifestyle-related diseases and saving for old age as they would be protected from economically draining situations. Moreover, it is an engagement that would help increase lifespan back to 70 years and above. As Hurst (n.d) states, healthy aging is one of the best ways a society’s future gets preserved. The more reason is that when people are aging healthily, they go through all aging stages effectively to the point where they understand the challenges involved. The ability helps address aging-related challenges, keeping society aware and in control of its social, political, environmental, and technological aspects of life.

References

Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.). (2016).  Handbook of theories of aging  (3rd ed.). Springer. 

Hurst, M. (n.d.). Theories of aging: Structural-functional, symbolic-interaction, & social conflict. Retrieved from: https://study.com/academy/lesson/theories-of-aging-structural-functional-symbolic-interaction-social-conflict.html

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Healthy Aging Blueprint Plan

The University of Arizona Global Campus

HUD 5420 Interdisc Theories of Ger Instructor: Gregory Hickman

June 28, 2022

Blueprint for Healthy Aging, Plan to Address the Problem and Facilitate Healthy Aging, and Plan to Measure Progress/Effectiveness

1. Plan/strategy to address identified healthy aging problem

Living unhealthy life has dire consequences on the aging process since it attracts a lot of issues affecting healthy aging. A healthy lifestyle requires a proper state of mind, commitment, and discipline to create and maintain a habit of doing things considered healthy. A healthy lifestyle should be embraced and applied from the early stages of development because some conditions that only appear old emanating from an unhealthy lifestyle usually take a lot of time to develop in the body. For this reason, starting to live a healthy lifestyle when one hits old age, in most cases, does not have a substantial positive impact since the damage is already done. The following should be applied consistently;

Healthy feeding: What is consumed has an absolute effect on the quality of health in the aging process. To deal with a majority of aging challenges, for instance, diseases and overall weakness, it is essential to feed on a healthy balanced diet. In healthy feeding, toxic substances like beer, cigarettes, and products high in caffeine must be avoided by all means.

Proper body hydration: proper rejuvenation allows all body parts to operate as they should, eliminating instances of friction that might trigger pain. In this plan, one must drink the recommended 8ounces of water daily.

Regular body exercises: This is a critical practice that must be done regularly with a minimum of twice a week for at least 30 minutes (North & Fiske, 2013). One must habitually engage in any physical activity, for instance, running, riding, walking, working out in the gym, rope skipping, or playing in and out-door games like table tennis, hockey, football, and many others, to keep the body flexible.

Stress less: stress is not entirely wrong since moderated stress cannot affect healthy aging. In reality, mediated pressure pushes one to do more extraordinary things boosting one's potential. In this case, one must avoid instances triggering high levels of stress that can easily result in depression or using antidepressants to contain the situation.

Regular medical checkups: since many diseases develop over the years, constant medical checkups are mandatory to ensure that the body is medically fit. The medical checkup should thoroughly review all body parts and organs (Jopp & Smith, 2006).

Maintaining healthy social circles: one should also have a small yet reliable social circle comprised of friends and family members that one can trust and receive necessary moral and social support.

Healthy investing and resource utilization: From the early stages of employment or engaging in economically gainful activities, one should start saving for long and short-term investments (Jopp & Smith, 2006). At the same time, available resources are to be utilized in the best way possible to create a strong economic status to support old age gradually.

2. Plan goals

· Having aging persons with a recommendable aging rate

· Reducing/eliminating chronic diseases that increase the aging rate and lower life span

· Having aging persons with high levels of emotional, physical, and psychological status

· Development of a positive attitude towards old age

· Having aging people financially stable and fully independent

3. Discussion and analysis

Biologically, aging is a process that commences once the child is born. However, different body parts and organs are formed in the early stages of development to reach their entire operational state. However, after attaining the youthful state, the body starts to decelerate, losing vital abilities. A person needs to do everything possible to maintain body abilities acquired during growth to have healthy aging.

According to immunology theory, the immune system is programmed in a manner it declines with time leading to increased vulnerability to diseases. Therefore, this being the case, it is essential to maintain a quality immune system through healthy feeding and hydration. The body is supplied with the right amount of nutrients, cells, and fluids necessary to fight disease-causing agents leading to quality health even in old age (Bengtson et al., 2016). Additionally, the error or damage theory of aging states that vital cells and tissues tend to wear out due to aging. One way to maintain the cells and tissues for longer is through healthy feeding, engaging in physical exercises, and avoiding stress. This is because drinking water boots quality metabolism that eliminates waste effectively and allows quality sweating through toxins taken out of the body. Exercises help in boosting blood flow, reducing stress, relaxation, and quality sleep.

On the other hand, disengagement theory claims that social relationships are critical in aging because they affect one's emotions, psychology, and overall wellbeing. For this reason, the plan recommends having quality social circles that are easy to manage while reaping full benefits. According to Bengtson et al. (2016), having financial stability is critical in reducing stress which is high when one is ill due to poor lifestyle choices, bad relationships, and lack of finances to maintain desired status quo.

Nonetheless, there are potential challenges or barriers to the implementation of the proposal. One significant barrier is personal beliefs and values, where some might not consider the proposed factors or at least some of them important (North & Fiske, 2013). It means they would do some things right and others wrongly, affecting the plan's overall success. Secondly, financial constraint is another significant barrier since maintaining a healthy lifestyle is costly. Others have already been affected, and in the state where their conditions cannot be reversed, for instance, they have already developed chronic diseases.

The good thing is that hope is not lost since making positive changes can happen at any time in life. It all requires a change in attitude and behavior. It is essential for those engaging in unhealthy behaviors to make a positive change and engage in only recommended behaviors, and the sick ones strictly follow the doctor's instructions.

Measuring progress

The overall method of measuring the progress or effectiveness of the proposed plan is noticing positive changes in older adults. For instance, aging people have flexible muscles, increased energy levels, appear overall happy, their skins start to look much more appealing, and have an overall positive attitude towards old age.

References

Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.). (2016).  Handbook of theories of aging  (3rd ed.). Springer.

Jopp, D., & Smith, J. (2006). Resources and life-management strategies as determinants of successful aging: the protective effect of selection, optimization, and compensation. Psychology and Aging, 21(2), 253- 265. https://doi.org/

North, M. S., & Fiske, S. T. (2013). Act your (old) age prescriptive, ageist biases over succession, consumption, and identity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(6), 720-734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167213480043

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Blueprint for Healthy Aging- Social Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues

The University of Arizona Global Campus

HUD 5420 Interdisc Theories of Ger Instructor: Gregory Hickman

June 22, 2022

 

Blueprint for Healthy Aging- Social Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues

In the United States, the government has been keen on healthy living. This is after realizing a high number of people have been affected by unhealthy lifestyles that have been adopted. The government has been recording a high rate of lifestyle diseases, with the aging population taking up the highest percentage. The situation compelled the government to establish and implement the Healthy People Initiative, currently in its fifth edition dabbed as Healthy people 2030. The initiative is manned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (DPHP), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve overall public health by assisting people in living a healthy lifestyle. Several policies and laws have been created and implemented to ensure that the initiative achieves its mission. The policies are classified into six categories: mandates, restrictions; economic incentives; marketing limits; environmental defaults; and information provision.

It is a fact that a majority of aging people in the United States have been affected by unhealthy lifestyles, which makes them vulnerable to lifestyle diseases like diabetes type 2, obesity, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and atherosclerosis, among others. Through the social, legal, and regulatory policies implemented, at least the aging population is provided with situations that save them from contracting lifestyle diseases leading to healthy aging and expansion of overall lifespan.

One of the policies is having processed foodstuffs like flour, rice, margarine, and other packed foods supplemented with healthy nutrients. This policy mandates companies in food products manufacturing and packaging to ensure that the foodstuffs meet the set standards and that they are packed with nutrients. According to Bartlett & Underwood (2009), advanced technology helps determine compliance with this regulation. By so doing, the government makes sure that people feeding on the foodstuffs would have nutritional benefits. This is one of the policies falling under the mandates category because any company that fails to comply is eligible to face legal consequences for risking users' lives. The policy does not target the aging population. Still, it only directly works towards ensuring people of all ages feed on healthy products and that they develop and maintain healthy bodies and minds.

Through the initiative, the government has implemented restriction policies, for instance, on how fast and unhealthy food products are advertised and other health-threatening products like cigarettes and beer. In reality, the government states that consumers must be informed of health pending dangers after consuming the consequences for consumers to be aware. At the same time, through social welfare programs, the aged people are encouraged through training on the importance of constant medical checkups to have any condition detected and handled in a timely and reliable manner. By so doing, the aged are saved from having advanced conditions that negatively affect their lives and lead to hastened deaths.

In the healthcare sector, the government, through the Medicare program, has regulated how older people over the 65years would access quality yet affordable healthcare services. This is a great privilege because most healthcare challenges facing older adults are costly to manage, and the medicare plan has empowered many elderly people to get their already developed lifestyle diseases attended to in a timely and convenient manner.

It is a fact the government has taken some amount of action to save the elderly people from unhealthy lifestyle life threats. However, a considerable percentage of aging persons continue to be affected. This is because most challenges develop gradually from earlier stages, only for the impact to be felt in later stages of life. This is why many lifestyle diseases affecting the aging population can only be managed since it has already reached their advanced stages (Bengtson et al., 2016). With this realization, the government must embrace more effective policies through the same healthy people initiative. The most convenient proposal is where the solutions to aging lifestyle challenges should not be applied when people get to their older adult stages but in their childhood and latest teenage.

The government should introduce a model where the youths are trained on how to feed correctly, engage in sports, and avoid toxic substances. The government should have a mandatory program through which people should go through medical checkups just like it is done with vaccinations to have all people screened and tested for different lifestyle diseases. At the same time, the doctor offers advice on things to do and avoid on a personal level. Making it mandatory for people to go through annual free testing and screening for ailments that affect the body the, most precisely diabetes, all types of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and others, would go a long way in making people understand the importance of living a healthy life from early stages in life. As stated by Bartlett & Underwood (2009), modern-day technology can help make testing and screening easier, faster, and highly effective. This trend and behavior that people would grow up practicing leads to healthy aging.

References

Bartlett H, & Underwood M. (2009). Life extension technology: implications for public policy and regulation. Health Sociology Review, 18(4), 423–433. https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2009.18.4.423

Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.). (2016).  Handbook of theories of aging  (3rd ed.). Springer. 

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Blueprint for Healthy Aging- Social Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues

The University of Arizona Global Campus

HUD 5420 Interdisc Theories of Ger Instructor: Gregory Hickman

June 22, 2022

 

Blueprint for Healthy Aging- Social Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues

In the United States, the government has been keen on healthy living. This is after realizing a high number of people have been affected by unhealthy lifestyles that have been adopted. The government has been recording a high rate of lifestyle diseases, with the aging population taking up the highest percentage. The situation compelled the government to establish and implement the Healthy People Initiative, currently in its fifth edition dabbed as Healthy people 2030. The initiative is manned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (DPHP), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve overall public health by assisting people in living a healthy lifestyle. Several policies and laws have been created and implemented to ensure that the initiative achieves its mission. The policies are classified into six categories: mandates, restrictions; economic incentives; marketing limits; environmental defaults; and information provision.

It is a fact that a majority of aging people in the United States have been affected by unhealthy lifestyles, which makes them vulnerable to lifestyle diseases like diabetes type 2, obesity, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, and atherosclerosis, among others. Through the social, legal, and regulatory policies implemented, at least the aging population is provided with situations that save them from contracting lifestyle diseases leading to healthy aging and expansion of overall lifespan.

One of the policies is having processed foodstuffs like flour, rice, margarine, and other packed foods supplemented with healthy nutrients. This policy mandates companies in food products manufacturing and packaging to ensure that the foodstuffs meet the set standards and that they are packed with nutrients. According to Bartlett & Underwood (2009), advanced technology helps determine compliance with this regulation. By so doing, the government makes sure that people feeding on the foodstuffs would have nutritional benefits. This is one of the policies falling under the mandates category because any company that fails to comply is eligible to face legal consequences for risking users' lives. The policy does not target the aging population. Still, it only directly works towards ensuring people of all ages feed on healthy products and that they develop and maintain healthy bodies and minds.

Through the initiative, the government has implemented restriction policies, for instance, on how fast and unhealthy food products are advertised and other health-threatening products like cigarettes and beer. In reality, the government states that consumers must be informed of health pending dangers after consuming the consequences for consumers to be aware. At the same time, through social welfare programs, the aged people are encouraged through training on the importance of constant medical checkups to have any condition detected and handled in a timely and reliable manner. By so doing, the aged are saved from having advanced conditions that negatively affect their lives and lead to hastened deaths.

In the healthcare sector, the government, through the Medicare program, has regulated how older people over the 65years would access quality yet affordable healthcare services. This is a great privilege because most healthcare challenges facing older adults are costly to manage, and the medicare plan has empowered many elderly people to get their already developed lifestyle diseases attended to in a timely and convenient manner.

It is a fact the government has taken some amount of action to save the elderly people from unhealthy lifestyle life threats. However, a considerable percentage of aging persons continue to be affected. This is because most challenges develop gradually from earlier stages, only for the impact to be felt in later stages of life. This is why many lifestyle diseases affecting the aging population can only be managed since it has already reached their advanced stages (Bengtson et al., 2016). With this realization, the government must embrace more effective policies through the same healthy people initiative. The most convenient proposal is where the solutions to aging lifestyle challenges should not be applied when people get to their older adult stages but in their childhood and latest teenage.

The government should introduce a model where the youths are trained on how to feed correctly, engage in sports, and avoid toxic substances. The government should have a mandatory program through which people should go through medical checkups just like it is done with vaccinations to have all people screened and tested for different lifestyle diseases. At the same time, the doctor offers advice on things to do and avoid on a personal level. Making it mandatory for people to go through annual free testing and screening for ailments that affect the body the, most precisely diabetes, all types of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and others, would go a long way in making people understand the importance of living a healthy life from early stages in life. As stated by Bartlett & Underwood (2009), modern-day technology can help make testing and screening easier, faster, and highly effective. This trend and behavior that people would grow up practicing leads to healthy aging.

References

Bartlett H, & Underwood M. (2009). Life extension technology: implications for public policy and regulation. Health Sociology Review, 18(4), 423–433. https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2009.18.4.423

Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.). (2016).  Handbook of theories of aging  (3rd ed.). Springer. 

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Evolution and Progression of Global Aging Initiatives [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Based on your assigned readings and additional scholarly sources, predict the evolution and progression of at least two global aging initiatives over the next decade. Include in your discussion a critical evaluation of how emerging research in a variety of disciplines and domains influences the current life course theory related to each of the two initiatives you selected.

Required Resources

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Bengtson, V. L., Gans, D., Putney, N. M., & Silverstein, M. (Eds.). (2016).  Handbook of theories of aging  (3rd ed.). Springer.

· Chapter 34: The Past as Prognosis: A Prismatic History of Theories of Aging

· Chapter 35: Prospects for Future Theory Development in Aging

Week 6 – Final Presentation

Presentation: Blueprint For Healthy Aging In The Future Powerpoint Or Prezi

[WLO: 3] [CLOs: 6, 7, 8]

Your final summative assignment is to develop PowerPoint or Prezi presentation to be shared with the class on your finalized Blueprint for Healthy Aging. The PowerPoint should outline and highlight major points from each section of your blueprint based on your weekly written drafts of each section and feedback provided by your instructor. You should provide three to four slides for each of the six sections of the blueprint, for a total of 18 to 24 slides plus final reference slide/s.

By Day 5, post your presentation to the  Week 6 Presentation Discussion  your peers to review. Provide feedback and comments to at least two peers’ blueprint presentations.

1. A Statement of the Problem/Challenge: This section includes a concise statement of the specific problem you will address in your blueprint including a brief review of historical, current and future trends and context of the problem  (e.g., specific population affected, geographic location/s, prevalence, personal and societal impacts and costs.) relating to the issue. You should also discuss why it is important to address the problem to facilitate healthy aging.

2. Theoretical Models and Concepts: In this section, you will analyze and apply relevant theoretical models and concepts covered in this course to help provide context and understanding regarding the cause of,  the nature of and the potential solutions to the problem. 

3. Social Policy, Legal and Regulatory issues: In this section, you will identify, summarize, and critically evaluate any relevant existing social policies, laws, or regulations (or lack thereof) aimed at addressing the problem.

4. Plan to Address the Problem and Facilitate Healthy Aging: In this section, you will identify a plan/strategy to address the specific problem/challenge. You should identify a specific goal or outcome (or set of goals and outcomes) reflecting a change or solution to the problem which will reflect a model of “healthy aging.” Next, outline your plan, as concretely as possible, to address the problem. Your plan should be informed and supported by and include application of relevant theories and concepts covered in the course as well as existing research. If policy, legal or regulatory changes or proposals are deemed necessary, you should discuss the specific changes/proposals and include justification for each recommendation. This section should also include analysis and discussion of potential challenges or barriers to implementation of the proposal as well as recommendations regarding solutions to overcome or address each barrier or challenge identified.

5. Plan to Measure Progress/Effectiveness: In this section, you will identify strategies to measure outcomes, progress and effectiveness of the proposed plan to facilitate healthy aging. Specifically, how will the implemented changes be measured? How will you determine if the proposed plan is effective in addressing the problem/challenge and promoting healthy aging?

6. Summary and Conclusions: In this section, you sh

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