Elderly Care: Cultural Influences and Promoting Positivity

fourth-year Cargon Cultural Influences and Promoting PositivityCargon of the sure-enough(a) Person incomingIn this assignment the learner is required to investigate on the outcome based on life after employment for the onetime(a) individual in Cameroon and write a project that coers the following argonas. The parting of c arer/ disposal in promoting positive stances to maturement and retirement, ethnic and cultural influences in retirement, wellness and therapeutic interventions that enhances life for individual after retirement and how family members can be included in caring for the rareer person. All the information in this project is obtain from the internet, articles and books.The Role of Carer/Organisation in Promoting Positive attitudes to ageing and retirementIn Cameroon one of the organisations that promote positive ageing is confederation Development Volunteers for Technical Assistance (CDVTA). CDVTA is a legally registered community knowledge charity in Cameroo n that helps the senile realize their rights, remain in self-worth and improve their livelihoods. They suffer created elderly clubs at the pastoral/community aim to encourage the older people direct involved in activities such(prenominal) as rearing, beekeeping, soap making and medical plant production. They as well as attendant the elderly to life more included and cared by the community befoole active club membership, regular home-visits and integrating with their families. They help to raise aliveness standards in areas where no other government stand-in exists by providing provides who back up the elderly in personal hygiene and household works. The elderly are also empowered to attain improved standards of breathing.Ref CDVTA Cameroon, 2012.The Regional center of attention for the Welfare of Aging Persons (RECEWAPEC) is a humanitarian organisation that works for the social offbeat of older people in Cameroon. They encouraged older people to be involved in ac tivities such as pigs breeding, farming bees, cultivating mushrooms and bee farming.They also support older peoples eye care projects and reach older people and families affected by HIV and AIDS.They help the elderly carry their rights, challenge discrimination and overcome poverty so they can live dignified, secure, active and levelheaded lives.RefHelpAge Inter topic, 2012.Ethnic Cultural influences on the aged(a) Person In Relation to RetirementCameroon has approximately 1.2milion of seniors aged over 60 years living more in agrestic areas than urban areas. In Cameroon the retirement age is 60-65. Cameroon does not have a national subvention policy that covers all workers. Only those who have worked for the civil work or in other formally recognized sectors receive a pension or any kind of government support. Many in retirement still struggle. It takes a lot of time, money and bureaucracy to piece up a pension plan and close to people give off before receiving their paym ents. People who have worked all their lives in jobs that fall extraneous the control of the government tend to rely on private pension policies, which are even less reli able-bodied. They are the most vulnerable. in that respect is midget specific attention paid to the issues faced by the ageing generation. There are no government institutions, organizations or healthcare services that secernate in meeting older peoples needs. Indeed, Cameroon has never conducted a national accompany to find out what the challenges that elderly people face. Many elderly in Cameroon lives in isolation and neglect with little help from their families and communities as there is no specific legislation that protects and promotes the rights of elderly. The elderly in Cameroon are veneering different problems depending on whether they live in urban or rural areas. Because of unending movement of the population, older persons living in cities cannot rely on a social network. Although health center s are located in cities, they commonly are built in the suburbs several kilometers away. They experience poor living conditions, limited access to healthcare, exclusion from society and decision-making processes. In urban areas, it is particularly bad. Most of them have moved to the countryside as they are not isolated. In Cameroonn older people are abandoned to their self whether in the hamlet or town. They benefit from assistance by families that have kept up around traditional values and offer mutual support and some have a small business that pays them what to eat.Ref globaldevelopment, 2015.How Health furtherance Therapeutic Interventions can Enhance Quality of Life.Health promotion enhances timbre of life for retired elderly people in many ways. It improves the body function, longevity, it promotes their ecumenic and emotional wellbeing, it makes older people to tint good and helps to identify health-related problems. In older people it important to promote a healthy attitude towards the following aspects healthy eating, exercise and voluntary work. In Cameroon the majority of retired elderly people have gardens and small farms where they cultivate food stuff. This enables them to eat healthy fresh food e realday and to have healthy options of food provided in different ways. The elderly people in Cameroon are very active. They get involve in cultural activities, excursions, farming, dancing groups, rearing, beekeeping, soap making. Majority of them dont drive so they walk to their farms, around the community see families and friends. This keeps them flexible and creates less chance of developing anxiety/ depression. The elderly reanimate a very important role in the Cameroon culture. Some of them volunteer to take care of babies and accompany children to school if they are still self-coloured most become institutions because they engage to transmit local cultures and knowledge to the jr. generation, play a vital role in conflict root and pe acemaking and some act as advisers and supervisors to some organisation and government. Due to the role they play in the society this ensure a good life, makes them feel useful and gives them something to do so they do not feel solitary thus longer life expectancy.Therapeutic interventions that can improve the tincture of life of elderly people in Cameroon include njangi groups, old persons social clubs and church groups. This helps the elderly to have access to a group of people of their age, enjoy conversation, dance and make new friends. thus promote mental stimulation and encouraged mobility, keeps them active and involved, helps to overcome poverty, makes them feel valued members of the community and improves their mental and physical health.Ref increment old in Cameroon, 2013.Discuss how family members can be included as partners in care for the older person. In Cameroon family ties are intimate and long lasting, so the elderly rely so much on the family for greatest secur ity. Older persons benefit from assistance by families that have keep up some traditional values and offer mutual support. Care is provided only by family members as they are required to take care of their parents. Because there are no nursing homes or elderly care facilities in Cameroon parents have traditionally lived with their children or extended family members. Caring for the elderly by their family members are common phenomenon and important values in both the rural and urban areas in Cameroon. Most often these elderly persons reside in rural areas and are engaged in subsistence farming activities. When they are frail and are not able to carry on the farming activities one the children each the eldest or the wealthiest in the family takes his or her parent to live with and takes the right providing assistance to them, assist them with their activities of daily living such as bathing, feeding, readiness their meals and toileting and providing their needs such as clothing, f ood, shelter, health and money. Familys members are also responsible for the medical cost of the older person. Women have a very strong family ties and therefore are very committed in constituent their parents. This ensures a good livelihood to the elderly and as an obligation of the able child to take care of his/her parents.Ref Growing old in Cameroon, 2013.ConclusionLife after retirement in Cameroon is more awkward as compare to Ireland. This is due to the fact that there are a lot of facilities in Ireland such as nursing homes, social welfare services and medical facilities as compare to Cameroon.Reference ListCDVTA Cameroon, 2012.globaldevelopment, 2015.Growing old in Cameroon, 2013.HelpAge International, 2012.5M4339Type textJohn Mbeng Tagni