Genderism, Racism and Old Age Essay

gender dominance (Rogers, 2003). In America, the issue of genderism is one that would be expected to make any noticeable difference barring the fact that America has tried to equal the rights, responsibilities and powers of all genders within its boundaries. The reaction would be acceptance as they are a population that fights for equality (Rogers, 2003).
The rise of Jim Crow laws is a perfect example of how differences can arise as a result of differences in psychological opinion among people. These laws were aimed at effecting racial segregation no matter the cost. The most troubling of these laws is one that had been implemented in Mississippi stating that anyone who married a black person, mulatto or had more than one-eighth black blood was not accepted or even considered as a citizen of Mississippi and the marriage would not be http://www.encyclopedia.com . This law meant that if even a white person married a black person the white person would there and then seize to be one of them (Jeffries, 2008). It is disturbing the extent that white people would go to ensure they had no contact with blacks.

Another disturbing issue was the separation in the administration of health care services. In hospitals, black people were supposed to use different entries from the whites and in some states they were to use different facilities that were obliviously poorly equipped and with fewer health officers or officers of lesser qualification http://www.ferris.edu/. These diseases were the same so offering substandard facilities and ill-equipped health officers was definitely not the best of isolations (Woodward, 2002).

Child custody should be allowed to the person who makes the best guardian but this

is a fact that was not considered (Jeffries, 2008). If anyone was the custodian, guardian or parent to a white child the law curbed him or her from leaving the child in the care of a black person and if the person violated this law he or she faced a risk of being arrested or fined according to the laws of the state http://www.ferris.edu/ .
Graying America is a phrase referring to the increase in the number of old people the American population. Health care systems have been able to increase the lifetime of people by treating and curing the old of diseases (Whitfield, 2007). This has improved several sectors because the people who are currently in offices are offered the opportunity to seek the professional advice of the aged people who once worked in the same jobs and can still remember or figure out how to tackle certain situations in their former fields of expertise (Whitfield, 2007). This prolonged life among the old also brings happiness to families that do not take them to nursing homes. The joy of seeing their loved ones is brought to their lives and they are happy to have them for a longer period.

On the other side, when old people are made to live longer they are not given the capability to live comfortably because they cannot move freely or feed themselves and this discomfort makes it useless to live long because they bring about the challenge of caring for the old (Singh, 2003). The old are weak thus, they cannot effectively cater for themselves financially. This presents a stretch on the economy in order to sustain them too. The

old population is rising but as they get old they become weak and therefore the same way medicine has provided ways to lengthen their lives it should now work on making them strong enough to depend on themselves.

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