American Senior Community

According to the web site for the
Department of Health and Human Services,
one in six Americans are over 60 years
old. As the baby boomers age, that
proportion will increase. The numbers
will put a stress on the organizations
that are designed to care for our oldest
citizens. This is not something that
can be denied any longer.

The American Senior Community is a
community of opposites. On one hand,
they live in a relatively rich and
stable country that is considered to be
a world power. Living in the United
States allows many seniors to have
options that seniors in other countries
do not have. On the other hand, many of
the oldest of the American Senior
Community do not have enough food or
appropriate housing or they do not live
in safe environments.

According to America's Second Harvest,
they state that 52 percent of all client
households with seniors are food
insecure, and 65 percent of these
households lived in poverty.

A variety of online sites indicate that
many of the American Senior Community is
victims of economic fraud. Many
individuals seem to think that it is
appropriate to take the life savings of
the elder citizens of this country and
leave those citizens at the mercy of the
government or other people.

Many seniors have no family who are able
to care for them and the seniors are
sent to nursing homes to live out their
last days. Many of these nursing homes
have appropriate oversight and the staff
has been known to abuse the elderly
residents. The abuse varies but can
include physical abuse, physical
neglect, verbal and emotional abuse and
medical neglect.

Nursing homes are not the only known
abusers found in the American Senior
Community. Seniors who live in the
homes of other relatives have been found
to be abused in much the same way as
seniors in nursing homes. Even though
it would seem that living at home would
make a senior more secure, many families
can not cope with the difficulties of a
senior relative and allow their
frustrations to be taken out on their
relatives.

If the American Senior Community is to
live well in their golden years, many
people believe that the government needs
to make some adjustments. The Older
Americans Act (OAA) has provisions to
help those families that care for an
older relative. Medicare and an
Ombudsman (people who investigate claims
of abuse against the elderly) will need
to be strengthened. It is possible that
these programs are satisfactory as they
are today, but, given the expected
increase in the population of the
American Senior Community, these
programs will need to be augmented.

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