I looked at the top five leading causes of death in america which are Lower respiratory infections
Coronary heart disease
Diarrhoeal diseases
HIV/AIDS
Stroke
I found it interesting that high income families have the most deaths over the age of 70 compared to low income familes were the age of death is between 0 to 14. I thought that high income familes death rate would be lower since they have money and able to take better care of themselves so I thought that the death rate would at least be around the age of 85. High income families have more resources so they should rarely get sick but I guess they take advantage of that where in poor places the highest death rate is even before the baby is born.
I decided to explor a nursing home where old people can go when they suffer from one of the top causes of death or any other. At the nursing home I talked to the nurses about how they take care of their patients since my grandmother is there and she had a stroke. Nurses would come in and do daily things with the patients depending on their disbility, usually cleaning them changing their cloths coming in at different times to change their body position in my grandmothers case since she cant move. My grandmother has been through many different nurses because she gets moved around alot and some of the nurses are actually nice, helpful an take care of her while others dont do their best job, she could sit in one position for the whole day and no one will come and move her around so that her muscles dont get locked up and no longer able to move them, which shows how little people care about you even if your on your death bed. But people will spend hundreds of dollars to take care of a family member even when theirs no chance of them ever getting any better. This also shows how when it comes to sickness and dying families who can afford or barely can will go to great lengths to make sure that their family member is given the care they need even if it wont make a change and their wasting money. It also shows how we dont like to let go of things if someone is in acoma most families would have the doctors still do work and they would spend money even thought they know theirs no chance of their family member getting better. I think it matters because there are families waisting money some have it and some dont, I just happen to be in between my mom has money but not alot that she can just keep giving to take care of her mother when theirs the high chance that she'll never get better.
Kristin I really liked reading your post because I can relate because my uncle had a stroke and he was also in a nursing home to get him better so they can get him out of the bed and into his own home. The nurses weren't taking care of my uncle and they would forget to give him medicine for his headache and he would always argue with the people in the home. They never took good care of him and he wanted the family to always be there to help him out.
ReplyDeleteKristin,I liked how you used your sorces, Using the readings from class as well as independent sorces as well. The part of your post that i enjoyed was when you talked about the difference in class and what they die from. It makes me question why dose the amount of money effect what a person die from? Is it the fact that some people don't have the money to pay when they get sick? or is it that peopel are dying from not getting thing the need. Such as the right food and right health care such as doctor apointment on a normal bases? Great post.
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