A study on providing care for elderly and assistance management

One of the most important social problems in old age is the issue of our old aged people's care. Although every person elder than 65 years of age has not absolute illness and doesn't need help, there is the increasing possibilities of the risk of getting ill and of physical disabilities. Changing ecosystems, rapidly evolving technological era, unfortunately, as every living species has also adversely affect people. Public housing has taken the place of large buildings with gardens, in the face of more difficult conditions of life of individuals have had to work long hours, families were aiming to be more nuclear families. On the other hand, advances in technology and in medicine have led to an increase in the average life expectancy and the human life span. The conflicting social changes such as industrialization, technological development, the introduction of women into the business world, the leaving of your people from their original houses because of work and education, forced the old people to be left alone. The institutions such as nursing homes and day care centers are emerged in order to help and facilitate the lives of elder people and their families, the elder people's care at their home alone is getting difficult because of the functional and physical insufficiency together with this changing world's order. Families were also faced with choosing one of the alternatives for social care, in order not to remain worried. As a natural consequence of modern life, for the solution for problems seen in old age as well as the problems of living together, the professional help are clearly required. Elderly care services made in the context of professional institutionalization and professional organizations, ensure to take away the burden away from the family and to be a chance to catch up the new role of the elderly will. In this sense, the nursing home, nursing has emerged as a necessity of urban life. Nursing homes, is a intervention to the government's social space. Nursing homes are aiming to ensure the peaceful passing and host the elderly citizens in the Turkish society for the rest of their life. More complicated, nursing homes are places with environment and living conditions of compliance to the closeness to of the places where they want, according to the elderly wishes. Health care in this institution are also carry the same degree of importance. Keywords: Elderly, Elderly Care, Aging, Healthy Aging