Shouldn’t we be helping and taking care of the obliterated elderlies? Poverty in Hong Kong is due to the lack of resource the poor have, not being able to live a good life in this cosmopolitan city. Nowadays, there are a lot of poor families or elderlies living in an extremely poor conditioned areas. Due to their lack of resource, they are forced without any solutions to live in places like cage homes, squatter settlements, and roof -top houses. Another reason why poverty is caused in Hong Kong is because the government doesn’t give attention to the poor. For example, families living in subdivided flats registered for public housing have waited for a very long time but still doesn’t get an official reply. One of the problems caused by poverty is 1 in 3 seniors struggle to meet their nutritional needs. The population of Hong Kong is approximately 7.155 million and 1 in 6 people is living in poverty which means around 1191666 people are living in poverty. Senior Citizen Home Safety Association helps the elderlies to live a quality life of their own choice in the community.
Wealth disparity is the condition of fact being unequal, the difference between people regarding age, degree or rank. In Hong Kong, wealth disparity is caused by the enormous gap of poverty and wealth. The comparison of the two well reflects the lives of the well known developed city - Hong Kong. People living in poverty or the working poor suffer from the lack of nutritional needs, resources and the poor conditioned shelters. The elderlies spends $167 per month just to live in an 1.5 square meter cage. Their lack of money has already brought them into the fact that they are not able to afford for a better shelter and yet they still have to pay for others t...
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Wealth disparity is due to the enormous gap of poverty and wealth, there are wealthy families and yet there are also a lot of people suffering from the bad conditions of their living. The dangers of wealth disparity can be people living in poverty not able to live safely in their shelter and not meeting their nutritional needs daily. If in even serious situations, some people living in extreme poverty may not even be able to survive due to the lack of money, nutrition, good living conditions. Senior Citizen Home Safety Association is a charity to help the ignored or poor elderlies to ‘gain confidence in living life’ and to live a quality life.Can help filling in the tremendous gap of wealth and poverty by providing free services for the poor elderlies, helping and supporting elderlies by creating different technological tools.
...and multidisciplinary approach to set up policies, programmes and activities relating to areas such as housing education, transport, taxation, and income security that will improve the quality of life of the ageing population and promote healthy aging. This would require coordination and linkage between policy planners, administrators, service deliverers, and the research community; between individuals and groups of older adults. Planning, development, delivery, and evaluation of services and activities provided will need the availability of strong data bases and relevant research. Importantly, the elderly must remain integrated in society and themselves must have a say in the formulation and implementation of policies that directly affect their well-being, while sharing their knowledge, skills and wisdom with society, and in particular the younger generation.
In Canada there is no official, government mandated poverty line. It is generally agreed that poverty refers to the intersection of low-income and other dimensions of ‘social exclusion’, including things such as access to adequate housing, essential goods and services, health and well-being and community participation. In Canada, the gap between the rich and poor is on the rise, with four million people struggling to find decent affordable housing, (CHRA) and almost 21% of children in BC are living in poverty it is crucial to address poverty (Stats Can). In class we have considered a number of sociological lens to examine poverty. Structural-functionalists maintain that stratification and inequality are inevitable and
Wealth inequality did not always exist in human life. In fact, “Human life have not only been changed, but revolutionized, within the past hundred years” (Carnegie 1). There used to be
The Senior Alliance Initiative is a non-profit organization designed to help improve the quality of life for senior citizens and integrate seniors into the community. The program will originate in Manitoba’s rural communities where there is often a shortage of close resources such as food, toiletries, and health services. As of 2011, 20.3% of Manitobans over the age of 65+ live in rural communities which means approximately one in five senior-aged Manitobans are not able to receive the help they need without aid from family/friends, home care, or a senior care home. (Univeristy of Manitoba, 2016) Often these resources are not available or are unreasonable due to:
In 2010, Korea's income inequality is among the lowest in all OECD countries. The income gap between the upper 10th and lowest quintiles of urban worker households is 10.67 times, and the relative poverty rate of urban workers' households (based on 50% of middle income) increased to 14.3 in 2008. In terms of the inequality of land ownership, which is a representative asset, about 1% of the total population owns more than half of the total land, excluding state-owned land. Also, about 1% of Seoul's population owns two-thirds of Seoul's total area. This concentration of land ownership affects to the increase of costs related to housing of 'homeless people', further deepening economic inequality (Kim,
Certain cultures that live at or below the poverty line prefer this type of assistance for their elderly family members because it allows them to have someone meet them at their home. This convenience is a big factor and provides the elderly with a way to fulfill their communal culture by living out their time at home among family, while still receiving any necessary assistance for health checks or IADL’s. This improves their quality of life by meeting their needs in a different way. These alternative methods to older adult care are more popular among minorities and cultural groups (Bookman & Kimbrel, 2011).
Inequality is presents in many communities and there some consequences attach with it. One of the reasons for inequality is income. Stone (2012) states the consequences of inequality in communities, especially when talking about income of individuals that are part of the community, “income inequality seems also to increases racial prejudice and discrimination against women and ethnic minorities,” (p. 59). Low-income individuals are forced to accept what the services provided by the government, even if those individuals who do want them. Stone (2012) give an example of the lack of choices low income individuals, when talking about food, “very poor people live under constant threat of starvation or homelessness and don’t experience most of their
According to the research study wealth inequality is morally wrong because has many negatives impacts in society. for some authors wealth inequality, its’s ethical wrong because as stated by them it is a result of hard work and good ideas that make them have more out-puts but for others it is morally wrong because income inequality lead to a serious of problems in society. In the article the effect of poverty and income disparity on the psychological well-being of the Hong Kong children, the authors Ho, Li and Chang argue the poverty and income inequality have negative effects on the psychological well-being of the children. Moreover, In the article On the Wrong Side of Wealth Gap, American’s Diets are Suffering, the author Feldman argues that
In 2012 15.3% of the aging faced a threat of food insecurity. Further from 2001 to 2012 there was a 44% increase in the aging population experiencing hunger (Ziliak & Gundersen, 2013). In 2008 8.1% of households with an elderly individual living in the residence were food insecure, and 8.8% of the elderly living alone were food insecure (Coleman-Jenson, Nord, Andrews, & Carlson, 2009). The growth in food insecurity for the elderly is troubling as the elderly are already as risk for poor health outcomes, and research has shown food insecurity in the elderly leads to the reduction of nutritionally sufficient diets and poorer health status (Lee & Frongillo, 2001; Stuff, et al., 2004; Ziliak & Gundersen, 2014). Additionally, as the aging often have higher rates of disability it important to note that prior research has found the elderly with disabilities have difficulty having enough money for food, and yet the disabled elderly have low rates of receiving food stamps (Klesges et al.,
The article explains that income disparity is among the current challenges affecting most developed and developing nations. The article explains the importance of the legislators and economists to concentrate on improving incomes of the lower class and middle class social classes. Research conducted in by these authors reveals that income disparities affect economic growth and sustainability. Increase in income for the bottom category of income distribution has a positive influence on the GDP of America. However a similar increase to the 20% of the highest earners results to drop in GDP if the 80% low earners” income drops. This therefore means that income disparity has severe consequences in economic growth. The research therefore concludes that income disparity is an evil that must be tackled appropriately.
In the United States the land of equal opportunity one might be surprised to find a great deal of economic disparity. Research on the topic was not extensive until a rise in economic disparities over the past thirty years grabbed researcher’s attention. This research would reveal that economic inequality was not just some random conclusion, but legitimate cause and patterns of these causes could be traced It would also uncover the consequences economic inequality had on social and political life. Research not only focused on economic inequality in America but also globally, researchers have also greatly expanded on literature concerning economic disparities with hope of raising the consciousness of the people and penetrating the heart of the social problem of economic inequality that many are faced with (Neckerman, Torche 2007). Economic inequality has been on the rise in America for more than two decades. This socially divisive trend emerged from the sluggish economy of the 1970s and continued through the booming 1980s, when surging tides clearly failed to lift all ships. Instead, escalating inequality in both individual earnings and family income widened the gulf between rich and poor and led to the much-publicized decline of the middle class (Gottschalk, P. (1993). I believe economic disparity is a social problem simply because of the definition of economic inequality which is self-explanatory when things are unequal this almost always leads to negative consequences and things seem to be unfair. Those that fall on the downside of the inequality are more likely to be face with poor housing, conditions, poor healthcare, and most importantly the will be faced with poor educational opportunity ...
The elderly people are highly respected and well taken care of because they are one of the foundation of any community. Although most Filipinos try to live up to this expectation, some just cannot and this is why elderly abandonment in the Philippines is happening (Utzurrum, 2015). It is unusual in the Philippine setting to see elderlies to be abandoned and neglected by their families because of sickness, weakness and dependence. This problem is very evident because there are very limited private and public institutions built for the elderly who have been abandoned and neglected. It is known as home for the aged, this institution aims to help, support and provide their needs until they die. It can only help them through their physical needs but not their emotional needs. (Wurtzel, 2014). One of the main concerns of these institutions are the emotional problems that the elderly encounters. According to World Health Organization (2016) elderlies are at risk to develop mental and emotional disorder that can affect their health. This is one of the
“Equality for all” has always been dramatized as a stand point for America expressing freedom and equality for everyone no matter what. In reality the three letter term stands for nothing but a lie among its repitition spoken out of a neglected person’s mouth and the issue of the wealth gap portrays that lie beautifully. The wealth gap shows the reality of inequality by underlying the unequal distribution of wealth. To understand the role of the wealth gap it’s essential to consider the causes, why it’s a problem and its solutions.
In the world today there is a lot of poverty. There is a great divide
The rich, the middle class, and the poor; are described by the way we live and the amount of money one has. There are many different ways of describing what poverty is, whether it is by how you live or how much money you have. What is poverty and what does it mean to be poor? Not many of us know the true meaning of these terms. Poverty is an issue dealt with throughout the world, but we are not all aware if its conditions. Poverty is a very serious problem around the world. Poverty is defined as the equality to poorness and impoverishment -- (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions). A question to ask ourselves is: “Should poverty be defined strictly in terms of monetary income, as opposed to some qualitative formula which takes into consideration styles of life as well as material possessions?” (Sheppard 13) Because there are so many different ways we can express the term poverty, maybe there should be a certain way we can determine poverty world wide? A person might look like they are poor or think that they are, but by definition they really are not even close. Every country has poverty levels that decide if they are poor or not. The Philippines is a country that deals with this issue on a daily basis.