HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rheumatism, Epidemiological Transition, Hearing Loss
6 Feb 2017
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All five senses smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight change with age. Taste, smell, and touch: number and size of taste buds decline, loss of sense of smell declines, especially after 70, receptors for touch, temperature, and vibration decrease. Cha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) sight a(cid:374)d heari(cid:374)g ha(cid:448)e the greatest effe(cid:272)t o(cid:374) a perso(cid:374)"s a(cid:271)ility to fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) i(cid:374) later life. Older adults may withdraw from social life and increase dependency on others. Sight: harder time seeing a contrast between light and dark as people age, loss of color sensitivity, decreased ability to see fine detail, glare sensitivity and decline in peripheral vision. Hearing: hearing loss begins at age 50, decreased sensitivity to low-frequency tones in speech common, approaches to dealing with hearing loss available, although deterioration of hearing mechanism not curable. Majority of seniors have excellent or very good self-rated functional health. Education is a factor; seniors with higher levels of education are more likely to report very good or excellent health.
