Talk:Elderly care

Wikipedia Ambassador Program assignment
This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Rice University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program&#32;during the 2011 Q3 term. Further details are available on the course page.

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Removed
Removed link to shock site. It hardly seems appropriate to have had it on this page and cannot believe that nobody has removed it sooner. I hope that this page can now be developed along more respectable lines. --Vincej 30 June 2005 21:49 (UTC)
 * Thank you for doing that. WhatamIdoing (talk)

External Link Request
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)


 * Done. Ellyhutch (talk) 22:37, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

How do I add a business profile to Wikipedia? Careregistry (talk) 15:44, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Info about the topic of Gerogogy
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 * 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
 * http://scholar.google.com.hk/scholar?hl=en&safe=strict&q=geragogical&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws

requesting edits Hi there, very glad to see there are multiple wiki topics covering older adults. I am writing to request some language changes in this article to reflect current anti-ageist/best practice. The APA recommend and use the term "older adults" instead of seniors, senior citizens, elderly etc. [American Psychological Association. (2010b). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC.; American Psychological Association. (2014). Guidelines for psychological practice with older adults. American Psychologist, 69(1), 34–65. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0035063] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.80.118.150 (talk) 11:27, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Addition
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)

Revision and Expansion of Elderly Care
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)


 * 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)

Ellyhutch, I think your contributions to this article were much needed and create a more rounded view of the topic. Good job! One thing that the article is lacking is a good lead. The lead should summarize what is in the rest of the article, but it only provides general definitional content right now. I like the various countries that are highlighted. I think it would be a valuable endeavor for others to add sections on other developed countries, such as a European or Nordic country, to give a fuller picture. The same goes for the developing countries. Finally, as far as the structure of the article goes, I’m not sure that it is best to put “Legal issues about incapacity” under “Improving mobility in the elderly.” It seems as if this could be its own new section.

Here are a few other notes:

KiaraDouds (talk) 11:46, 10 April 2012
 * Second paragraph of article, beginning with “Elderly care emphasizes…” has no citation
 * “We must also account for an increasingly large proportion of global elderly….” - I don’t think the word “we” should be used.
 * No citation for family care home information
 * More citations are needed for what you added in the US section. For example, your source must be cited throughout the paragraph on respite care, not just at the end
 * “Another unique type of care cropping in U.S…” - “cropping up” not “cropping”
 * “Several charitable organizations have since opened in Nepal,” - since when?
 * “Thailand has observed global pattern of an enlarging elderly class” - THE global pattern
 * It may bring clarity to the “Legal issues about incapacity” section to begin by defining what incapacity is. Is there an article you can link to?
 * There are no citations in the legal incapacity section - need to add!
 * Only the first word should be capitalized in a section title. “Legal Issues About Incapacity” needs to be changed. I know you didn’t work on it, but “Medical (skilled care) versus Non-Medical (social care)” also needs to be changed.

"Elderly" is currently considered an ageist term. Please see the WHO report on ageism for reference. Therefore, I suggest that the title of the article is changed to "Care of older adults".

Peer Review
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 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)

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

== 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. ==

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)

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