HSM 330 Lecture Notes - Human Musculoskeletal System, Dysthymia, Cardiovascular Disease

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Health Services Management
• Course: HSM 330
• Professor: Daolun Chen

Document Summary

In recent decades, research on the health and function of aging persons has tended to focus on the prediction of negative outcomes such as disability, dependency, morbidity, and mortality or to be based on samples limited to frail individuals. Aging has sometimes been defined as a progressive functional decline or a gradual deterioration of physiological function with age associated with inevitable, and irreversible age-related process of loss of viability and increase in vulnerability. In striking contrast, a different view of old age can be traced back more than. 2,000 years to cicero"s (roman) famous essay de senectute (cicero, 44. B. c. /1992) in which he expressed the stoical opinion that in old age, free of the demands of bodily needs and pleasures, it is finally possible to focus on the further development and enjoyment of the mind. In the 20th century, this optimistic perspective has found a new expression in the term successful aging.