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Care For The Senior Citizens.

Care For The Senior Citizens. By: Aylea Jean Sandifer and Mary Niles. The problem:. Senior Citizens work their whole life to gain money and then loose it within a few months because they have to spend their life savings on nursing homes. Our solution:.

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Care For The Senior Citizens.

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  1. Care For The Senior Citizens. By: Aylea Jean Sandifer and Mary Niles

  2. The problem: Senior Citizens work their whole life to gain money and then loose it within a few months because they have to spend their life savings on nursing homes.

  3. Our solution: • We want to create a law to give all senior citizens with disabilities free care (going to nursing homes, or home visits) so they don’t spend all of their money. • We will raise taxes 2% on state taxes, and then we want to make an association to raise money for the old people now and the baby boomers for the future.

  4. Our letter: • Dear Robert L. Venables, Danny Short, and Jack Markell, My name is Aylea Sandifer and my partner's name is Mary Niles. We go to Seaford Middle school. Our teacher Mr. Cox gave us a project. We had to pick an issue. Create a solution and present it to some one important who can maybe help or at least give us some feed back on our issue and solution. Our issue is care for elderly. Basically, we want to find a way to give older people that have disabilities free nursing care. Like long-term care. We've both done research and found out that Medicare only pays for a 100 day trail and after the 100 days you either have to pay for the nursing home care or leave. What were thinking is what if people really need nursing care. But don't have to funds to pay for it? Do they sit back and be helpless at home. While others who are spending their whole life savings trying to get help while others sit back and watch? Honestly, in both of Me, and Mary's opinions think it's unfair and cruel. Your probably wondering how we are going to pay for this free nursing care for all people of Delaware and Mary thinks we should make an association and raise taxes up 2%. And those funds will go to helping people get free nursing care so they don't have to spend about $80,000 a year, almost $2,000 a month, and about $200 a day. It's a lot of money to spend on nursing care. And a lot of people with severe problems (cancer, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and many elders have diabetes.) can't get help because they can't pay for it. This is what we believe Delaware should do to help people. I know things are tight but we have to think in the long run. Do people really deserve to be denied nursing care because they can't pay for it? While others who made enough money to save get the treatment because they can pay for it? It can't always be about who has the money to pay it or not. Sincerely, Aylea Sandifer & Mary Niles. • We chose those three people because we want to tackle the state before moving on to something bigger.

  5. The types of problems people come in nursing homes with: • Alzheimer's- Is one form of dementia. It’s a loss of brain function, and gradually gets worse. This affects memory, thinking, and behavior. • Cancer - any malignant growth or tumor cause by abnormal cell division. It can spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream.

  6. … Continued. • Diabetes- In elderly people the body starts to not secrete sufficient amounts of insulin to keep the blood sugar levels down. Diabetes is incurable. And can only be controlled through medication or diet. • Parkinson’s disease- It affects men more than woman. And mainly afflicts the elderly. Affects the nerve cells that go to brain and why it occurs is still a mystery. It causes uncontrollable tumors and shaking. Later stages affects the brain.

  7. How it effects them. Today 4.5 million suffer from alzheimer’s. By the year 2050 it will increase to 16 million people. In 2000 171 million people had diabetes. In 2030 it will double. Basically nursing homes cost about 80,000 dollars a year. And some places cost over 200 dollars a day and over 2,000 dollars for a month. And Medicare only gives people a 100 day trial. And after the 100 day trial they have to pay for themselves.

  8. So, do you think people should spend their life’s saving on a nursing home that should be free because they don’t want to be taken care of THEY NEED to be taken care of. They don’t have their mom’s and dad’s anymore to take care of them. They need some help. And should people that do need help that don’t have the funds to pay for long-term care be denied nursing home care because they can’t pay for it? • Yes or no?

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