Many aspects can affect one's quality of life in late-adulthood. Different factors can contribute to the negative or positive qualities in one's life; however, some aspects are inevitable. This paper will address biological changes, cognitive function decline contrasted to acquired knowledge, coping with dying, and grieving death. A further look into these topics will help one understand many changes the elderly experience. Biological Changes Because of changes in late adulthood, people biologically develop at different rates.
UNIT 4222-656 Understand the factors affecting older people Outcome 1 1) As adults age, many changes occur: memory loss, bones and joints, eyes and ears, digestive and metabolic, urogenital, dental, skin and functional abilities problems. 2) Aging is inevitable and is in a sense a gradual loss of life functions. The process is unique and different for each individual. While for some aging means grey hair, few kilos or bad hearing, for others is a much more complex transformation, because the aging process brings social and emotional change and loss into their lives. Older relatives die, then loss of a spouse affects many.
However; when these changes occur, will depend on the individual. This depends on what the body has been through like environmental factors such as accidents, infections, disease, smoking or alcohol. Sensory changes will often happen when ageing as individuals receive and process information from the environment by hearing, vision, taste, smell and touch. When going through the ageing process these five senses are likely to be diminished and incoming information can get distorted. Another physical change is hearing where 30% of people over 60 have an hearing impairment.
They might have the same diagnoses and able to give him tips for staying healthy. They may also provide transportation, help him with grocery shopping or other services. With friends and family to communicate with it can improve better outcomes. Psychological Issues For someone that is active and mobile, has an accident, then becomes immobile can become depressed. “If the process is slowed at the beginning, the wound will take much longer to heal, posing potentially serious consequences to patients recovering from surgery.
They were young movie stars and sex symbols. In this movie they are older people, aged, gray, wrinkly, and with both mental and physical decline being apparent. According to Baltes (1987), these events of normative aging are common biological changes which people go through. The story addresses multiple aspects of the different developmental stages which people go through in their lives (Erickson, 1959). It views Norman in the old age stage where he is having personal conflicts between his integrity of being old and his despair for his inevitable death (Erickson, 1959).
Introducing the “Care for memories initiative” Amongst thousands of conditions that can affect the human body, neurological dysfunctions are highly devastating for families because they can affect someone’s ability to complete basic daily functions on their own. Some of these disorders can affect the older adult or appear as an effect of aging. Others may strike early on in life. Whatever the case, people affected by these conditions will most likely require partial or complete care which will most likely be provided by an immediate family member who’s life will be greatly affected by this unexpected occurrence. For instance, people usually associate dementia with old age but in recent years it has been shown that adults, as young as 50 have
Improved immune system. Reduced risk of chronic disease. The negatives of an unhealthy diet are you can get heart disease or strokes. It can lead to obesity in the long run. It can damage major organs.
665 END OF LIFE AND DEMENTIA Dementia is the umbrella term for over 105 different types of dementia which means the end of life experience will vary greatly depending on the progression of the dementia and the type. Dementia is a progressive illness that can be classed as a terminal condition and shortens a person’s life expectancy. Typically people don’t die from dementia but die with it, meaning that end of life occurs from complications arising from the dementia such as aspiration / choking because of swallowing difficulties and pneumonia. Other people die of illnesses not relation to the dementia, such as cancer , stroke or heart attack. If one of these other conditions are present then their health is likely to worsen quicker in a more predictable course.
In this paper we will look at what it means to be an adult in todays modern age. We will examine the concept of ageism and the sterotypes associated growing older. We will look at how cultural differences affect the aging adult as well as how death and dying are viewed and dealth with. Growing older has always had a stigma associated with it. An image of rocking chairs, front porches and old timers telling the same story over and over again to an unwilling audience.
Being out of home can have many implications to a persons health. As they are vulnerable and often may not have the resources to provide food or shelter for themselves they are leaving themselves open to a lot of preventable infections and diseases, be it a common flu or HIV. (http://www.focusireland.ie/files/docs/effects%20-%20link.pdf) This high level of vulnerability could result in early onset of death and high mortality rates. Crisis believe that “Homeless people die younger. The average age of death of those recorded as homeless on corners varies between 42 and 53 years.” (Crisis,