PROBLEMS EMERGING FROM THE CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE: WHO CARE, WHO PAY AND WHO CONTROL

Yıl 2011, Cilt: 3 Sayı: 2, 33 - 39, 01.12.2011

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Öz

Population of the world is aging rapidly because of developing technology about health system and decreasing ratio of child bearing. The care of older people is one of the important problems of the social world in every where. This problem is not seen as actual yet in Turkey. But population of Turkey increases rapidly. Enrolling to a social security system is not sufficient to economic independency of older people. Modernization made some changes to traditional society. For example women work outside of home, children g oto kindergartens in early ages. Families are living inside small apartments. All these changes effect also older people. They do not find any place in nuclear family. People in their old ages have to live lonely up to their need to care. Elderly care is the big problem of themselves and their adult children or their close relatives. Who do care our elderly, who pay the care and who control the care. Our social security law must be developed to provide of the needs of elderly population especially coming that sounds like an avalanche. In this presentation it will be given a frame of problem and its solutions

Anahtar Kelimeler

elderly care, aging, care problems, aging population

Kaynakça

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