Talk:Elderly care

message: I would like to request to have an external link to our website [www.ConcerningAging.com] be added to this page. Our site is all about helping seniors and their loved ones make informed decisions about Eldercare.
Thank you for your consideration.
Clayton.65.248.184.124 (talk) 01:15, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Ellyhutch (talk) 22:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: External Link Request

message: * http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=geragogy&x=14&y=22
* http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?as_q=geragogy&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en
* http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+geragogic&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
--58.38.43.19 (talk) 03:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info about the topic of [[Gerogogy]] 

message: My plan for editing the article on elder care is adding a section under medical versus non-medical care that explains how this ideology goes into how elderly are treated in hospitals and how ageism within the healthcare system. 
Ariellarose19 (talk) 21:19, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Addition 

message: I'm a student of Anthropology and Sociology at Rice University, minoring in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities. An assignment for my class on global inequality is to revise a Wikipedia Entry on a topic relevant to our class. I chose Elderly Care for several reasons that I will detail below.
1. A quotation in the first section of the current article states: "The form of elder care provided varies greatly among countries and is changing rapidly." While this statement is certainly true and relevant, it is not carried out in the rest of the article. Only three countries are focused on - all Western countries with similar approaches to care of the elderly - which does not give a basis of the great variety between elderly treatment. There is also little to no information on policies implemented that effect eldercare in either positive or negative ways. I want to change this through my research by providing thorough information on other nations, especially developing nations, in order to show that eldercare is approached in many different ways. 
2. An issue with this article is that it relies on largely one source, a US Government document on care for the elderly. Because this shows bias towards a Westernized or Americanized form of eldercare, it leaves little room for alternative methods. I plan on using numerous sources from all over the world in order to portray the extremely wide variety of eldercare that does currently exist.
3. Finally, with regard to my class on inequality, I want to expand on the possible issues of gender inequality within eldercare. It may be true that some societies are more likely to take better care of their male elders rather than their female elders (I know this to be true), or vice versa (which may or may not be true). Quite possibly there may be some policies that limit the capabilities of one elderly gender over another. I'd also like to look into the gender numbers of the actual caretakers. Something like 96% of all nurses are female; is this statistic similar when it comes to eldercare?
Other projects include merging this article with ACE units, as suggested, and hopefully reaching out to a wider community within Wikipedia! I definitely think it is true that there is a sense of apathy towards the elderly, so if I can make this article appealing, neatly organized and interesting, it might yield more traffic.
I would appreciate any feedback I can get throughout this process. Thanks in advance to the Wikipedia community!
Ellyhutch (talk) 01:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's my review of the current article: The lead section needs to be lengthened so that it is an overview and introduction to the material in the article. Brief information on elderly care in developed and developing countries could be added. The leading section should grab the reader's attention. The discussion of "respite care" does not seem to fit in the "United States" section, unless it has evolved only in the U.S. Other information seems to apply to elderly care in general, so it should be moved to a different section. Have there been any studies done on the quality of elderly care in the United States? A more personal, human approach to the topic would give the reader a better understanding of what elderly care is like than a list of facts. The link for the "Five Year Plan" under "Nepal" needs to be fixed, as does "Old-Age-Allowance" and "Medicare home health benefit" in another section. Just a general note, if you have time: the "See Also" section is just meant for articles that are not already linked in the original. Links such as "Home care" and "Old age" could easily be incorporated, so that the "See also" section is kept small. The article is much improved over the original, but each section still needs to be expanded to provide a thorough view of the state of elderly care in each of the countries.  Khatchell (talk) 19:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision and Expansion of Elderly Care 

message: Overall I think you’ve done a great job contributing to the article.  It is an interesting topic that you’ve done a nice job developing.  I particularly like how you distinguish between elderly care in developing and non-developing countries, and how that care differs.  I only have a few suggestions.  First, there are a several citations missing throughout the article.  Every sentence you include should be cited, and you can repeat citations when the same source is used.  If you include text of the citation when citing your source, you can use  to repeat any necessary citations.  There are also various links such as “Five year plan” and “Old-age allowance” that either need to be correctly linked to the appropriate articles or removed.  Secondly, it would be interesting to know more about information elderly care in Canada and Australia, and possible other developing countries.  Lastly, it may be beneficial to include any policy implications related to elderly care either in the “legal issues about incapacity section” or in an additional section.  Ultimately, you did a fine job making the article more well rounded and responding to the feedback we suggested in the workshop. 
Cctomball (talk) 14:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: lacks inline citations. outdated tag? FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:57, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  inline 

message: Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare. Much elderly care is unpaid.[1]
Elderly care includes a broad range of practices and institutions, as there is a wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly throughout the world. 2001:448A:706E:2160:79F0:E768:4B34:7014 (talk) 03:59, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who wish to age with dignity while needing assistance with daily activities and with healthcare. Much elderly care is unpaid.[1]  Elderly care includes a broad range of practices and institutions, as there is a wide variety of elderly care needs and cultural perspectives on the elderly throughout the world. 

message: — Assignment last updated by Aksgpp3131 (talk) 07:15, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Global Poverty and Practice