HLTC22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Semantic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Slide one: aging is not a disease, medicalization bringing in the medical sphere some process, e(cid:454)] (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s (cid:271)odies, not a disease, changes are influenced by genetics an environmental factors. The difficulty with frailty is that people will fall. If they are fatigue, they break a bone, which results in a hospital visit and bed rest which leads to complications such as inability to do activities. Causes: genetics, disease or injury that limits movement, poor nutrition, sedentary living , sarcopenia . External changes: hair colour, change in body weight, shorten stature. Internal changes: sarcopenia loss of muscle mass, loss of muscle strength, elasticity or flexibility, decrease in muscle cells compare to fat cells, decreases in bone mass becomes brittle, decrease in the flexibility of joints. Physical activities can help in a number of ways. The list is(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue to just old people.
