Geriatrics is a pervasive topic. It is a medicinal process that comes to execution with age. It is mainly an aggregate of family medicine and a sizeable percentage of internal medicine (Stone, 2011). The main focus of the specialty is to prevent, if not treat, the older, aging adults that are sick or disabled due to the conditions that come with age. A major characteristic is that the age of one to necessitate geriatrics is not limited. However, the consequent conditions that face an individual once admitted are sometimes not favorable and impacts greatly on the aged person’s autonomy. The personal autonomy significance of any individual cannot be downplayed in any society. Moreover, the independence of a person does not depend on the sex of the age of the person. By and large, this paper delves into the conception of Geriatrics and the consequential impact on the autonomy of patients and their application to the societal life. The paper also goes ahead to focus on the aged inhabitants in the society with a particular slanting to their lives in the residential health care systems. By and by, the paper delves into composite values and expected behavior that go with the process of exerting personal independence. It also addresses the ways in which geriatrics is integrated to ensure autonomy and how both can be enhanced. Finally, it looks at the various restrictions that hinder the process of enacting the right to freedom and autonomy amongst the patients (Boulanger & Deroussent, 2008).
In contemporary times, the population of the aging people is shooting up with each passing day. This has been attributed to a number of factors in the residential health center that has contributed to people living unusually longer than the conventio...
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...er as they dread the aftermath of joining the care centers more so when they consider autonomy. Nonetheless, with changing times and administration of the checkpoints above, the feeling and approach of geriatrics is bound to change and individuals will henceforth look forward to old age.
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