Question

CHCAGE001 ( cert III individual support)

1. outline the sterotypical attitude and myths associated with ageing?

2. what impact does social devaluation on an individual quality of life?

3.why is it important for older people to be given the responsibility for directing their care?

4. if you recognize that an older person rights are not being upheld, who should you report to and how can you report to them?

Answer 1

1) It is true that there exist a bunch of stereotypical attitudes and myths about ageing process. Maybe, these thoughts are rendered to us by the society itself during the course of our life. Some of the beliefs that persist among us are:

• Aged people are not at all interested in the outer world and the new generation lifestyles. It might be true among a very few number but still there are many people who are interested in the new gen lifestyles.
• Old age people possess no talents and ideas.
• They are hypocritical about everything.
• They won't be able to view things in the way young people view things.
• They are of no use to the society. Although, they can be highly productive to the society in various aspects.
• Expenditure on the health of older population is worthless.
• Aging will dull wits and can lead to higher chances of dementia.
• Aging will deteriorate your ability to adapt to new situations.
• Aging will bring the libido.
• Aging will make a person more religious.

2) Social devaluation can be considered a major reason for many issues that arise between individuals as well as groups. When a person is subjected to social devaluation, he/she has a good chance of becoming introverts and be reluctant to socialise with the world. These people can eventually become antisocial and unproductive to the society and the economy as well.

Whenever there occurs social devaluation, it questions the rights of an individual to live in a society. It deteriorates the life quality of the individual, as well as, it can affect the group or community in which that particular individual belongs to.

Social devaluation is a kind of discrimination that targets on people who are less defensive and are easier to have power over. When a person or an individual is socially devalued, it can lead to adverse affects on the person's mental stability and self confidence. It can mentally disrupt the person and can even lead to negative thoughts towards the society. Thus , social devaluation should be considered as a social threat and it has to be prevented at any cost to promote harmony and welfare of individuals and individual groups. And the people who promote and take part in act of social devaluation should be prosecuted.

3) In the case of treatment of older population it is necessary to focus up on their mental and physiological satisfaction also during the rendering of care. In such a situation, it is necessary to involve them in planning the treatment regimen to protect their rights are interests.

If the patient's condition is severe and the treatment options are not of much outcome, then thr the individual should be given with the responsibility to direct his/her care. In such situations, we should give more value to the individual interests. If the patient is satisfied of his life and if he is not interested in receiving more treatment procedures which can bring more pain rather than peace shoud be avoided than focusing on the hospital policy of proving maximum care.

In many cases we have witnessed that the older age patients undergo severe pain due to many procedures which could not lead to the betterment of the patient condition.

4)If you notice the denial of rights of an old age person, a complaint can be registered in the human rights regarding the individual's complaint. The mode of complaint registration or the method of reporting can be different for different countries.

• Contact the local bar association or seek help from the human rights advocacy group.
• Try to collect any kind of evidence regarding the violation of the rights of abuse.
• Report to the residential association or human rights advocacy group or atleast police regarding the incident.
• If the older individual wants to raise a complaint against the perpetrators, help him with a written complaint involving the whole incident ;name and position of the perpetrator ; include the date,place and time at which the incident occurred ; name and address of the witness and any other important details.
• And submit it to the nearest police station of local bar association or human rights advocacy group.