TAILIEUCHUNG - Social Justice, Health Disparities, and Culture in the Care of the Elderly

Though it is widely recognized that the population of the United States is aging, much of our current understanding in the field of individual decision making is based on data from student populations. While this could be a consequence of subject availability, it may reflect a common though largely unsubstantiated belief that decision making ability declines with aging (Peters 2000). Many older individuals are productive and intellectually viable throughout their lives. Still, others are vulnerable to dementia and neurodegenerative illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease. Our objective in this study is to begin to characterize the relationship between economic. | Social Justice Health Disparities and Culture in the Care of the Elderly Peggye Dilworth-Anderson Geraldine Pierre and Tandrea S. Hilliard This paper addresses two interconnected concepts health disparities and social justice as they pertain to screening diagnosis of disease and health care access among minority elders in the American society. Health disparities are defined as differences in treatment provided to members of different racial or ethnic groups that are not justified by the underlying health conditions or treatment preferences of Disparities currently exist in many aspects of American health care. For example when compared to whites the infant mortality rate is higher for African Americans health insurance coverage is lower for Latinos and African Americans and ethnic minorities experience poorer care and survival rates for HIV even after controlling for other confounding factors including income insurance health status and severity of Among older Americans health status varies by race income and gender. Older minority Americans have consistently been shown to have worse health than whites of the same age group across measures of disease disability and self-assessed When compared to whites elderly Latinos have higher rates of diabetes and disabilities 4 and older African Americans have more chronic According to Barry Levy and Victor Sidel 2005 social justice encompasses two distinct ideas based on the underlying themes of justice fairness and The first is that individuals should not be denied of economic socio-cultural political civil or human rights based on the perception of their inferiority by those with more power or influence. This can Peggye Dilworth-Anderson . is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Interim Co-Director of the Institute on Aging at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Dilworth-Anderson completed .

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