Health Promotion Vs. Curing Diseases In Old Age Sociology Help

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In your opinion, how much emphasis should be placed on promoting health versus curing diseases in old age? What are the benefits AND consequences of emphasizing one over the other? Think both of benefits and consequences at the individual level as well as at the societal level. Refer to the reading assignments for support for your answer. What if prevention/curing disease succeeded in significantly prolonging the human life span? (or life expectancy?) Is your guess that it will be simply extending years of life or might it be extending a healthy period of living? What might be the consequences at the individual and the societal level if either event occurs.

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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION

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Health Promotion
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HEALTH PROMOTION
Disease prevention and health promotion are being emphasized in geriatric
medicine. However, more emphasis should be on health promotion instead of curing
diseases. At the old age, most people have terminal conditions which cannot be cured.
Investing in trying to cure illnesses in old age would be too expensive and time wasting.
Health promotion, on the other hand, concerns ways of managing any health conditions
the generic population may be having and ensuring that they live a more comfortable life
in their end of life years. Health promotion will be specific depending on the health needs
of the specific aged patient. A...


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