Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The twilight years
- Demographics
- Nutritional
Requirements
- Calcium, Vit D supplements
- no saturated fats or trans fats
- protein and omega 3 fats
- less salt and sugar in diet
- limit intake of processed and
canned food
- Functional
Screening Test
- assessment designed
to evaluate an older
person's functional
ability, physical
health, cognition and
mental health, and
socioenvironmental
circumstances
- Aging
- Challenges
- Psychological
- Stress, Depression, Anxiety
Insomnia, Suicide, Loneliness
- Financial
- too little: Rent, Car, Electricity, Hospital, Medication expenses
- Too much money : become victims for abuse or fraud
- Common health problems
- Cognitive Conditions: Alzheimer
Disease & Dementia
- Joints and Bones: Arthritis Osteoporosis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Neurological Diseases: Parkinson Disease
Stroke
- Myocardial Infarction (MI)
- MI management
- change of lifestyle
- cardiac rehabilitation
- anticoagulants / statins
- Obesity
- body mass index
more then 30
- Waist circumference
- Bioelectrical
impedance analysis
- densitometry
- polypharmacy
- adverse drug effects
- compliance issues
- Can be overcomed by:
- Elderly services
- Social
- self care
- recreational
- rehabilitation
- coordination
- physiological
- Male reproductive system: Testosterone levels
drop The size of the testes decreases. Decline
in rate of sperm production Enlargement of
prostate Erectile dysfunction
- The immune system becomes slower to
respond (there are fewer immune cells →
immune system`s ability to detect and
correct cell defects ↓
- Theories
- Programmed
- Aging has a biological timetable or
internal biological clock
- Error
- Aging is a result of internal or external
assaults that damage cells or organs so
they can no longer function properly
- free radical
- molecules
carry
unpaired
electron
e.g O3,
H2O2, OH
- the process of growing older
- Primary
- secondary
- Metabolism
in the fed
and fasting
state