Disease Trends And The Delivery Of Health Care Services

Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services Brittany Bigger HCA/240 11/30/2014 Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services In the health care field, there are many different findings and discoveries happening each day. While population in the world increases, there are more developments of bacterial disease being discovered. Looking back at our country’s past, many of the diseases we have now wasn’t thought of back then nor was a threat to people’s lives as big as it is now. Coming forth to the present many things have changed since the older times. Aging and Obesity are the two main topics to talk about when you discuss of the future in Americans. In History many changes have occurred not only in the†¦show more content†¦Older people have more issues they need to tend to as far as Social security, and Medicare. This in my opinion will make everything decrease in jobs and in the economy needs. In the next 20 years the ratio of age range will be mostly 65 and older which will be triple the time of what we have now (Kochhar, 2014). In 2009, 39.6 million of the population was over the age of 65, which made a big part of the total population in the US. (Rodgers, 2012). Which this information from 2009, you can almost imagine the increase we will have in 2050 with more elders and less means of putting individuals to use due to their old age. I think that in the future this will be the worlds greatest downfall because there will be so many older people and not enough young population to uphold the jobs and businesses throughout the US. Health issues with Aging will be a huge problem for the elder population. There are many different diseases to look out for within older individuals. Cancer and Heart Disease are two of the diseases older people would be some of the chronic diseases an older person would get. Preventing this would mean for all elders to live a healthier lifestyl es. Your environment would be the main key of becoming healthy and reducing the chances of any chronic disease (Chronic Disease Prevention And Health Promotion, 2011). Within the next couple of decades, our country