Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Skeletal Muscle, Late-Onset Hypogonadism, Lip Reading
8 Feb 2016
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You can still have a disability and thrive, one of the issues is being overly focused on health, structural lag, role opportunities/social structures not keeping up with ability of older adults. Structural lag: peoples potential and skill set does not match with environment around them, aging, in our minds we think people are not capable of doing extracurricular only playing bingo, opportunity to develop skills. Communication, simple sentences, just not as elaborate, telegraphic speech (get rid of articles like the) You can easily blame the victim, oh it"s your fault, some people have come from a genetic pool that"s already vulnerable. Successful aging, productive aging are controversial, the terms exclude people. Looks at own behaviour, culture, and physical health within concept of gender and culture. Progressive decline in physical function due to increasing age (e. g. , decline in cardiac function) Secondary aging: deterioration that is mediated by, disease (e. g. , diabetes, harmful env. /lifestyle factors (e. g. , smoking)
