Psychological Changes in The Elderly

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By wordsscriber

Understanding about the psychological changes of the elderly will help those who are caring for elderly patients to be better prepared as caregivers. As people get older bodily function decreases so some of the main functions that changes are in vision, hearing, touch, skin, endoctrine, renal, and musculoskeletal.

Health management for older adults consists of determining the reasons for loss of independence in the elderly, some symptoms include the high incidence of dementia caused by psychological changes such as in the decline of mental and physical abilities, the diminishing mental health and cognitive functions leads many adults to seek assistance from family members or institutions.

Physiological effects of Social Change

Studies have been conducted that show how the social changes in aging causes physiological effects for the elderly simply from the standpoint of how men and woman think of aging differently. Some social characteristics facing woman as they age is that they usually live longer and face the loss of family members and friends. This results in the need for emotional healing and elimination of stress.

Elderly men’s changing roles of social status allows them to create coping skills requiring more social involvement as well as the continuous process of learning ways to strengthen their mental abilities.

Physical health conditions caring for elderly

Some of the most common health conditions among the aging elderly are

· Alzheimer’s

· Parkinson’s

· diabetes

· heart disease

· vision and eye disease

· osteoporosis

· arthritis

· cancer

· incontinence

· mental health

· hearing and sleep disorders.

Aging is a process where over time individuals experience a decline in performance, productivity and health. Age related regenerative diseases are different from person to person due to genetics, lifestyle and the change between biological and physiological age. The breakthroughs in clinical medicine will help in the connection between age and disease.


National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/seniorshealth.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/Elderly-Nutrition

http://hubpages.com/hub/Caring-Elderly-Parent-Guide


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Lita C. Malicdem Level 4 Commenter 18 months ago

"Aging is a process where overtime individuals experience a decline in performance, productivity, and health". Well-phrased! I'm a senior type 2 with degenerative osteoarthritis.

When I was at my prime, I bragged about not having been hospitalized. Well, today, age is slowly eating me up! But I hope to age with grace, so I love to read lots of tips on how to handle aging the positive ways.

Glad I found this. Haha! Great hub! Thank you. This is useful. Vote up!

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wordsscriber Hub Author 17 months ago

Lita as we age our mind reflex our youthful desires but our bodies gives us that physical reality check.

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