ABSTRACTINTRODUCTION: Aging is an unstoppable phenomenon which starts fromconception to last until death. During person’s life goes through certain changes suchas biological, psychological, sociological, and environmental. From all periods of life, Old age is one of important part of person’s life when psychological and sociologicalrelations drifts. It can be defined by three ways (1) chronology, (2) shift in socialstatus, and (3) change in capacity. In a nutshell, aging is a dynamic process that leadsto physical and mental shifts. The change cannot be stopped or reversed, but it may bedelayed by aiding older people in continuing to live their existing lifestyles. AIM: For Nordic countries, aging population is the most pressing challenge incontemporary period. The aim is to assess the psychological wellbeing of old agepeople staying in care home or institution care. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: By using scooping methodology and old age peopleage limit 65 to 84 yrs took data from secondary validated sources in which explainabout good and very good health countries such as Sweden and Norway and Finlandwith lower percentage of good health in both genders and also how decrease mortalityrate increase the dependency ratio in these countries. CONCLUSION: In Nordic countries, Government provide numerous facilities fortheir residents such as home care, institution care for their well being. But even aftergood care, old people suffer from psychological problems such as loneliness, depression and suicide. The conclusion of this study include some interventions whichcan improve their mental as social health such lifelong learning participation , activeaging policies to stay active at their own capacity, identify the vulnerable groups anduse compensatory strategies to stay active and participate in social activities.This ideais not only explain the individual's right and responsibility to remain active, but alsothe government's responsibility to create an age-friendly social system andcommunity environment. Moreover, I focus on quality of health care provided toresidents and also on emotional well being of old people.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-45511 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Johal, Kirandeep Kaur |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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