Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Inequality, Disability-Adjusted Life Year, Osteoporosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3347A/B
• Professor: Harry Prapavessis

Document Summary

Physical functioning: optimum physical and cognitive functioning is achieved in the 20s and 30s, young adulthood is the period of life when individuals" developmental pathways begin to diverge. Primary and secondary aging: primary aging - age-related physical changes that have a biological basis and are universally shared and inevitable. Early childhood development, education, ses, personal health behaviours, culture, gender, employment, and social support. Medical services, hospitals, community and home-based health care services, healthcare professions. Adequate housing, safe workplaces and communities, clean air, water, soil. Other body systems: declines in physical functioning, elite athletes notice declines that start in the mid-20s, non-athletes will not notice until middle age. Body function age at which it changes nature of change. Lens of eye thickens and loses accommodative power, resulting in poorer near vision and more sensitivity to glare. Loss of ability to hear very high and very low tones. Decline in ability to detect and discriminate among different smells.