KINESIOL 3U03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 105 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Demographics of aging: who are the elderly. 10-30% loss of function in major biological systems: middle age (40-65) Doesn(cid:495)t affect how you live: old age (65-75) Ability to perform basic activities of daily living (badl) impaired: oldest old age (>85) Nursing/institutional care usually required: human lifespan. Around 125, verified age of 122 (there may have been someone who lived to be older than that but poor birth certificates make it difficult to know and verify an exact age) Defined as survival potential of members of a population. George burns: when people live past 100 they are less likely to die because they are healthier as they have already lived that long are more likely to die of old age. 85 years hasn(cid:495)t changed much rather than secondary disease (could be due to better genes for longevity) i. e. centurians have a higher threshold for disease.
