Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Basal Metabolic Rate, Ejection Fraction, Human Musculoskeletal System
15 Feb 2018
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Lecture 4 - successful aging and physical aspects. Health and retirement study definition: no major disease, no limitations in active daily life (adl, ability to perform variety of tasks. If you have an illness are you automatically not a successful ager: even if you"re adapting and living well. Includes: sdh the environment, personal and individual determinants, economic context. Physical changes: note: biological perspective, views aging as a decline. Primary and secondary aging: primary aging (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al(cid:863) or "se(cid:374)es(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e, progressive decline over time in physical function due to increasing age (ex. decline in cardiac function) Secondary aging: deterioration that is mediated by, disease (ex. diabetes, harmful environment/lifestyle factors (ex. smoking, other factors that make the aging process go faster. Defining age changes: age changes must be, universal - everyone goes through aging. Intrinsic - not due to the environment: progressive - gradual decline. Irreversible: deleterious - leads to a loss of function.
