Examples of senior citizen in the following topics:
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- The elderly, or senior citizens, are vulnerable to civil rights abuses due to a propensity for sickness, disability, and poverty.
- The elderly, sometimes referred to as senior citizens in the United States, are a demographic group usually defined by being retired or over the retirement age (which is dependent on life expectancy changes).
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- Elderly care is the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens.
- Elderly care is the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens.
- Because of the wide variety of elderly care found globally, as well as different cultural perspectives on elderly citizens, the subject cannot be limited to any one practice.
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- The elderly, often referred to as senior citizens, are people who are generally over the age of 65 and have retired from their jobs.
- Within the United States, senior citizens are at the center of several social policy issues, most prominently Social Security and Medicare.
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- Medicare is a social insurance program that provides health care for American citizens over the age of 65.
- Because Medicare enrollees are, by definition, senior citizens, their healthcare costs also far higher than average.
- These disparities demonstrate the complicated problems most senior citizens encounter as they age.
- The Trust Fund for Medicare will be exhausted by 2017, at which point, the federal government will only be able to cover about 80% of the costs of medical treatment for its senior citizens, which is around 48 million Americans.
- Thus, Social Security and Medicare are both being called upon to support greater numbers of senior citizens while having fewer workers to tax in order to gain revenue.
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- There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.
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- By 2000, the number of senior citizens had increased to 35 million out of 280 million Americans.
- While women still live longer than men, the gender gap among seniors is narrowing.
- Further, there appear to be regional divides in the demographic breakdown of senior citizens.
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- The most common form of elder abuse is neglect or improper care for vulnerable seniors.
- Research indicates that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused than white citizens.
- Further, medical concerns present differently for white seniors and minority seniors.
- Black and Hispanic seniors are more likely to encounter cardiac problems earlier than white seniors.
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- Any individual from any segment of society may be socially isolated, but senior citizens are especially susceptible to the risk factors that may trigger social isolation.
- Studies have demonstrated that seniors who are socially isolated seniors are less likely to take advantage of health and social services.
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- Political participation differs notably by age; in general, older citizens are more likely to turn out in elections than younger ones.
- Turnout among senior citizens, people sixty-five and older, increased to nearly 70 percent in that same time period.
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- National security, a concept which developed mainly in the United States after World War II, is the protection of the state and its citizens through a variety of means, including military might, economic power, diplomacy, and power projection.
- It is responsible for providing national security intelligence assessments, performed by non-military commissioned civilian intelligence agents, to senior U.S. policymakers.
- The White House National Security Council is the principal forum used by the President for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisers, and Cabinet officials.