Management speak
Absolutely, adult age is a period of human life that he or she has accomplished his or her works and wants to rest in the leisure times. The period of life should be accompanied with bright and merry since with a lot of experiences, they are looking at the fruits of their life. The relatives show respect to them so they can better enjoy their life opportunities. But this lovely image of adult age does not accomplished because of many social, economical, mental, cultural, and … problems they are faced with. Therefore, adult age is not so awful per se, but it is its conditions that make it a big problem. Adult is not synonymous with pain and disability but it is a natural process of mankind which need to be known to be able to solve its problems and limitation successfully. It becomes important when we know that 70% of apparently old age effects and problems can be prevented.
Planning for the aged is based on knowing their main needs which are classified in the following groups: 1- health and medical needs, 2- social and economical needs, 3- mental needs.
According to the pyramid of people needs, economical-social needs are considered as the aged prominent needs and most of the aged are worried about it as the most difficult problem of the last period of life. To cut a long story short we content ourselves with some expressive statistics and some notes which clarify the situation. According to statistics at least 2 millions aged people of their 5-million population in our country need social and economical supports and 1.5 millions of them are below the poverty line and have no income. The weakness of insurance supports, and the difficult terms of retuning to work are considered as the prominent shortages which face the aged economy with main weaknesses and leave cultural programs for their honoring useless.
Health and medical needs
Heart and vascular diseases have the first rank in the aged throughout the world, and cancer and disabilities resulted from hitting the ground come next to it. In Iran, hitting the ground is prevalent among the aged women (16-24%), and driving accidents are the main causes of disabilities in the aged men. There are several important notes about the aged diseases: firstly, it is a wrong supposition to attribute the aged diseases only to their old age because every physical disease or failure has a reason which needs to be known and cured. Secondly, many prevent diseases of the aged can be prevented. The aged regular check-ups are recommended by researches. These widespread and preventing check-ups especially in auditory, visual, balance (skeletal, muscular, nerve), mouth and teeth, and brain and mind are very important. Alzheimer is a prevalent disease in the aged which can prevent it in the first stages with a basic physical diagnosis. Visual and auditory problems which are often overlooked and attributed to natural process of old age result in acute physical and mental problems and accelerate the aging process. The main health and medical problems of the aged come back to cultural and health organization weaknesses. The aged-specific medicine is a newborn science in our country and face with many medical and technical problems. Lack of expert force and specialized bed, lack of specific sector for the aged in hospitals, and lack of harmony between health and medical institutions responsible for the aged affairs are part of these problems which should be solved to make the current conditions better.
Mental needs
These needs are very widespread and involve individual, familial, and social aspect of the aged. If the aged of a society are depressed, sick, and sedentary, or face with bad economical conditions, it is not because of old age process. Social and behavioral approaches are responsible for this condition. The aged presence in family can solve many of his mental problems, but their children autonomous desires result in their internal and external loneliness in the last years of their life when they need social and emotional relations more than any time. Loneliness results in an incident named “empty-nest syndrome” during which deep emotional and blood relations are ruptured and they feel hollowness. In such a condition they think it is the end of life and expect death.
At the end of my statements, concerning high amount of time and money spent for this quarterly, I beg you to keep it safe and clean after its studying and recommend your friend to study it in order to have a bigger benevolent family for comprehensive center of Madar Sanatorium. If you want to help us in providing print charges you can present your advertisements or print congratulation or condolence messages for different occasions in our quarterly by calling 0571-2220006 number. Please declare any suggestion or criticism to help us make it better. Finally, I thank all persons who aid us to prepare and compose the quarterly, hard-working personnel of Madar sanatorium and crèche, the board of directors, and the board of trustees. We try to introduce some of personnel and the benevolent in every number to make you familiar with these compassionate and hard-working people.