INT 901 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Presbycusis, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Dementia
3 Nov 2017
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Changes occur within most individuals across the life course. Involves a change in our interacting sensory, physiological and psychologic systems. Influence a persons health, functional capacity, interaction with others, daily lifestyles. Genetic and environmental factors can speed up normal changes in aging or health for those who are predisposed to disease states and malnutrition. Aging is the result of individual choices and external constraints. Physiological, sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and personality changes can reflect health status, extent of independence and degree and type of mobility. Most prevailing myth is that aging involves degernative changes in our physical and psychological systems that lead to inevitably, to frailty, and total dependence on others. Disabilities and frailties are observed at any age. Disability: reported difficulty in performing adls and iadls; physical, mental or a health problem that reduces the kind or amount of activity that can be completed. 40. 5% (1. 5 million) canadians 65+ reported having at least one disability.
