Healthcare Disparity in the Senior Population: Causes, Analysis, and Potential Solutions

Describe and provide details about the Healthcare Disparity in the Senior Population
Explore your chosen topic. For this, you should use the first four steps of the Socratic Problem-Solving Approach to aid your critical thinking. This approach was introduced in Assessment 2.
Identify possible causes for the problem or issue.

4 Steps of Socractic problem solving approach:

  1. Identify the elements of the problem, issue, or question
  2. Analyze, define, and frame the problem, issue, or questions.
  3. Consider Solutions, responses, or answers
  4. Choose a solution, response, or answer

Use scholarly information to describe and explain the health care problem or issue and identify possible causes for it.
Identify at least three scholarly or academic peer-reviewed journal articles about the topic.
Assess the credibility of the information sources.
Assess the relevance of the information sources.

Analyze the health care problem or issue.
Describe the setting or context for the problem or issue.
Describe why the problem or issue is important to you.
Identify groups of people affected by the problem or issue.
Provide examples that support your analysis of the problem or issue.

Discuss potential solutions for the health care problem or issue.
Describe what would be required to implement a solution.
Describe potential consequences of ignoring the problem or issue.
Provide the pros and cons for one of the solutions you are proposing.

Explain the ethical principles (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if potential solution was implemented.
Describe what would be necessary to implement the proposed solution.
Explain the ethical principles that need to be considered (Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, and Justice) if the potential solution was implemented.
Provide examples from the literature to support the points you are making.

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