Question

Discuss how disease affects the elderly and how their lives might change. Include health insurance costs, the need for additional income for treatment or in-home healthcare, and the need for other resources. Consider the possibility that you may need progressive medications and treatments that could be life changing but may not be covered by insurance.

Answer 1

The age group in which diseases affects in all the way is the elderly population.The diseases has a negative impact on many of their lives.First and formost the cost of the treatment sometimes will not be able to meet by them,due to their poor income.So in this case they are forced to depend on their health insurance and some times the health insurance will not cover the complete expense of the treatment,so in this case they are forced to sarch for other resources to cover their medical expense.Also there are people search for other ways to get the income to maintain the cost of the treatment.In some cases they need to continue certain medication that are not coming under the coverage of medical insurance,so in this situation they have to find another insurance ,which is not possible at all this age group with the diseases.In a conclusion we can say that the life of the elderly become more stressfull once they have any disease,also it will be challenging.Finding an additional income among this age group is quite difficult.There is a chance for the people to have a state depression also this can even worsen their condition.