Healthcare elders: Long story not end
when the Vietnamese increased longevity, experts on population issues, said: This is an opportunity but also a great challenge. Because this requires a new approach to the medical, health care, environment and inclusion, intergenerational care. People after the age of 50 if the proper support of health care, particularly nutritional supplements, will get better physically, can continue to contribute to the family, community and society.
But However, the reality in Vietnam, this is not easy. The representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam said: Elderly Vietnam suffered the double burden of disease, which was a change from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases, chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, depression ...
for example, only 10 years from 2002-2012, the proportion of people with diabetes has increased by 211%, falls more in the age of approximately 50, and from 50 onwards . The problem of malnutrition in adults - both middle-aged and the elderly - is also very interesting as reported at the conference "The current situation and the consequences of nutritional deficiencies", up to 80% of patients adults hospitalized malnourished. In the course of treatment not less patients died not because of illness but because of exhaustion, nutritional deficiencies.
Health care for older people, including nutrition remains a problem in Vietnam. Many causes contribute to this situation as: Awareness of the importance of nutrition for adults and the elderly are incomplete (many people still believe that only new malnourished children); changing economic conditions makes eating habits change, leading to the double burden of nutrition including malnutrition rate and obesity rates are rising; the proportion of Vietnamese suffering from chronic diseases related to nutrition such as diabetes increases; population growth and aging trends, accompanied by the number of people in their 50s looking for solutions to high-quality nutrition more and more while the response is incomplete ...
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