"After and before the Industrial Revolution, the family was composed of numerous relatives of different generations. Then the family was in continous regeneration with many people living togethjer - grantfathers, grandmothers, uncles, brothers, and children. In the past, our women did not work, and the family was in constant change, where a different person would take care of the older (grandparent). With the arrival of progress, the women began to work; now the family is small, the money is not sufficient, people live longer; and the older people have become the "excess weight" for this modern family. In the family, nobody has time to stay with the older people. If they are along, they need to pay a care worker and this person, a straner, becomes company, and is responsible for this older and abandoned person."

Way back on Industrial Revolution time, yes it’s true we have huge of family members and our head of the family is the only one going to work because our women are taking care of our children, and also our grandparents. At that time they do not spend too much because the cost of living is not high. But now, women are going to work also because of the high cost of living. They have to support the needs of the family, like the daily expenses for food, house rental, and clothing and the most important they need lots of money to send their children at the reputable school. Bottom line we did all things to fight the higher cost of living that’s why our elderly send to home care because nobody will take care of them. By: Fidelyn Perez

There were super closed family ties before and after the revolution, numerous relatives are living together in one have grandfather, grandmother, mother, father, children, brothers, sisters, and even uncles and aunties. The arrival of the economy grows, constant change was happened. Women began to work and they started to become small because the money is insufficient for the whole family. The older people become their excess weight for this modern family. Nobody has time to look and take good care of the elders because all of the people in the family are working to earn amount of money they needed. They started to place the older adults in the Health Care Facilities. They pay a health care worker to become their best company who is providing them care they needed. Now, the responsibility of the family in taking good care of the older adults was transferred to the care worker. By: Dyna May Meran

 

           After and before Industrial Revolution, the older people have a closer relationship with the family wherein they live together with their children and grandchildren. But as a modern society progresses where there has been a rise in the number of women in the workforce. The older people are the one suffering because their family does not have time to stay with them. So the older people will need a pay worker to do these responsibilities. But on the other hand it does not mean that the family do not love the older people, only they need to work because of the rising cost of living, which spurred many families to seek a second source of income.                By: Norma Abagon

Modern society has destroyed the extended families around the world. The population that has suffered the most from the termination of the extended family is the elderly. Elderly people must now depend on an increasingly narcissistic society that lacks the resources and empathy to take care of them. The elderly are forced to submit themselves to the control of uncaring, bureaucratic government agencies. In many cases older, retired people must relinquish their basic rights as citizens over to manipulative government agencies.

Once upon a time in world it was the extended family that provided housing, food, and care to the elderly members of society. Men and women one worked hard to house clothe, and feed their children, often sacrificing basic necessities for themselves so that their children may have a higher standard of living than they had themselves.

All this was done in the name of an unspoken, but traditional custom. One day, parents thought they would be assured a place to stay in the home that they deeded to their children. Elderly parents expected to be allowed to live with one of their children when they were no longer able to work or care for themselves. Social security was nonexistent in those days, so it was necessary for families to maintain a structure in society that provided for the needs of all of its members. It times of trouble, family members knew that they could depend on each other for help and support.

The elimination of the extended family in world has shifted the responsibility for caring for a growing, vulnerable, elderly population from caring families to uncaring agencies. Medical care for the elderly is often cut back by government health care officials. Older Americans find it more difficult to pay for prescription medications even with Medicare and Medicaid assistance. Rising costs of housing and food force many senior citizens to do without basic necessities. Families have drifted apart and no longer provide support and financial help to their elderly parents. It is evident that government policies pertaining to older people need to change. The lives of our older citizens need to be vastly improved if we are to prove ourselves worthy of being called a "great society".

Canada’s health care system must provide better care and benefits for seniors. We must improve current standards of living for older Canadians. If all Canadians strive to improve the lives and living conditions of older Canadians, all Canadians will eventually benefit. We all will eventually reap the rewards from efforts to better conditions for society's most vulnerable population. By: Manisha Korat

Every generation has its own progress and every progress have good and bad effects for our society. People tend to get a good job to get a better salary yet they do not understand that their family needs more physical presence than the happiness of what money can buy. As of today, I can say that it become harder for every person to take care of the elderly because they are getting busier caused by their work and that makes them feel that they are not that important to their families. By: Ruthe Ann Villanueva