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Elderly People Independence

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Old Age Stewardship

The focus of this essay will be specifically on older church steward. A steward main responsibility is handling of practical things. Such as taking care of visiting preachers, handling of announcements and offerings. Apart from that, he/she also focuses on promoting unity and hunting talent among preachers to encourage their involvement. For older adult stewardship can be defined by serving their lives, time, guidance, care, advice, interests, faith, and prayer to meet the new generations’ needs CITATION Yeo05 \l 1033 (Cho, 2005). A steward can be as free as anyone else. The church doesn't force him to do anything. Older adults with more experience and knowledge of their local community can perform this duty better. The age doesn't have any effect on the performance of duty. An old steward is regarded as the main power of a church. Jesus Christ calls everyone to be a follower or believer of God. He doesn't put boundaries of age or color or gender on them.

Independence in older adults can be defined in terms of maintaining physical and mental capacities ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"DiGgu6mV","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Hillcoat-Nall\\uc0\\u233{}tamby, 2014)","plainCitation":"(Hillcoat-Nallétamby, 2014)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":103,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/jpfyfVgo/items/ZGTKHMBE"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/jpfyfVgo/items/ZGTKHMBE"],"itemData":{"id":103,"type":"article-journal","title":"The Meaning of “Independence” for Older People in Different Residential Settings","container-title":"The Journals of Gerontology: Series B","page":"419-430","volume":"69","issue":"3","abstract":"Drawing on older people’s understandings of “independence” and Collopy’s work on autonomy, the article elaborates an interpretive framework of the concept in relation to 3 residential settings—the private dwelling-home, the extra-care, and the residential-care settings.Data include 91 qualitative interviews with frail, older people living in each setting, collected as part of a larger Welsh study. Thematic analysis techniques were employed to identify patterns in meanings of independence across settings and then interpreted using Collopy’s conceptualizations of autonomy, as well as notions of space and interdependencies.Independence has multiple meanings for older people, but certain meanings are common to all settings: Accepting help at hand; doing things alone; having family, friends, and money as resources; and preserving physical and mental capacities. Concepts of delegated, executional, authentic, decisional, and consumer autonomy, as well as social interdependencies and spatial and social independence, do provide appropriate higher order interpretive constructs of these meanings across settings.A broader interpretive framework of “independence” should encompass concepts of relative independence, autonomy(ies), as well as spatial and social independence, and can provide more nuanced interpretations of structured dependency and institutionalization theories when applied to different residential settings.","author":[{"family":"Hillcoat-Nallétamby","given":"Sarah"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Hillcoat-Nallétamby, 2014). In a church with social interactions, people tend to find happiness and calmness. An older steward can make their own decisions and do what pleases them. Another way freedom can be defined as access to resources in order to fulfill their needs. Being an old church, steward can't guarantee that. It is one way in which a church can subdue your sense of freedom. Seniors usually rely on their savings and pensions without any new income that is one area in which church cannot provide help to them.

The function and freedom of an old adult steward are correlated to each other. A steward at an old age who is lacking the energy and physical strength can certainly devote his vision, love, and support to the younger generation. He can provide guidance and career path to many young people and can have freedom in the form of self-satisfaction and proud feelings.

Theory of Independence

Growth in the number of older adults is increasing day by day. In 2014 the percentage of people aged 65 or more was 14.5%, but this figure is expected to reach 23.5% by 2060 CITATION San15 \l 1033 (Ortman, 2015). The theory of independence for older people is physical and mental freedom; a sense of independence can be achieved through socializing and interactions. These interactions can be in the form of connecting with your loved ones in your family or socializing in the community. As people get old, they observe more, pay attention to details more, and feel emotions more. Old people who live on their own in houses have a higher feeling of isolation. For mental health to safeguard, they need to experience the presence of other people around them in the form of friends or family. Their independence and freedom from isolation can be achieved through social and emotional support.

Independence has many implications for old people, but certain things are common across society. Having a helping hand, friends, and family and preserving physical and mental capacities through them. The life of elderly people mostly revolves around autonomy, extra care, independence, and socializing.

This type of independence can be achieved by communicating and socializing in churches and old care centers ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Beh7ZnRl","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(\\uc0\\u8220{}Aging Well,\\uc0\\u8221{} n.d.)","plainCitation":"(“Aging Well,” n.d.)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":104,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/jpfyfVgo/items/LKE8PE6Y"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/jpfyfVgo/items/LKE8PE6Y"],"itemData":{"id":104,"type":"webpage","title":"Aging Well: Helping the Elderly Maintain Independence | Walden University","abstract":"Learn ways to help the elderly live better and more independently—and learn how you can help more with a MS in Human and Social Services.","URL":"https://www.waldenu.edu/online-doctoral-programs/phd-in-human-and-social-services/resource/helping-the-elderly-maintain-independence","title-short":"Aging Well","language":"en","accessed":{"date-parts":[["2019",9,12]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (“Aging Well,” n.d.). Where there is a similar type of people that can share their experiences. Nursing students or staffs in hospitals also have the duty and responsibilities to provide that support and help whenever they need it. The experience that health staff can provide should be real rather than ideological. A good nursing responsibility is to provide people support so that they can feel more valued. They should make him feel free from social violence and insecurities.

References

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Aging Well: Helping the Elderly Maintain Independence | Walden University. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2019, from https://www.waldenu.edu/online-doctoral-programs/phd-in-human-and-social-services/resource/helping-the-elderly-maintain-independence

Hillcoat-Nallétamby, S. (2014). The Meaning of “Independence” for Older People in Different Residential Settings. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 69(3), 419–430.

BIBLIOGRAPHY \l 1033 Cho, Y. T. (2005). THE STEWARDSHIP OF OLDER ADULTS. Asbury Theological Seminary.

Ortman, S. L. (2015). Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060. U.S. CENSUS BUREAU.