GERO 14029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Weight-Bearing, Back Pain, Menopause

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Preventing chronic disease & living with it. Disability/adl limitations: disability related to, lifestyle factors (ex. Exercise, smoking: older age, gender: more likely for women, ses (socio-economic status): more common for lower ses, race-ethnicity: more common for african americans, good news, disability rates have declined; managing chronic health conditions. Chronic health conditions: more than 80% of those 70 &over have at least 1 chronic condition, what are chronic conditions, long term (more than 3 months, often permanent; may require long term management or care vs. cure. Chronic conditions: developmental course: rare in early adulthood, more likely in midlife, and most common in later life, comorbidity: coexistence of 2 or more chronic or psychiatric conditions. Leading cause of death over age 65: atherosclerosis (coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack) Symptoms differ older adults: generalized sense of weakness, dizziness, confusion, shortness of breath, hypertension (high blood pressure, increase risk of stroke and coronary heart disease, hypotension: low blood pressure.

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