Transcript What Is Aging?

Positive Aging
Positive Aging
What Is Aging
Changing Aging
What Is Aging?
 What age do you consider “old”?
 How will you know when you are “old”?
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
Well-derly
Dale Anderson, MD
What Is Aging?
 Changes in physiology
 Changes in health
 Changes in lifestyle
What Is Aging?
• Changes in physiology
– Cellular
What Is Aging?
• Changes in physiology
– Cellular
– Tissue/Physical
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
Changes in physiology
 Cellular
 Tissue/Physical
 Function
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
 Overall fitness
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
 Overall fitness
 Disease and chronic disease
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
 Overall fitness
 Disease and chronic disease
 Disability
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
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Overall fitness
Disease and chronic disease
Disability
Cognition
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
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Overall fitness
Disease and chronic disease
Disability
Cognition
 Dementia
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
Changes in health
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Overall fitness
Disease and chronic disease
Disability
Cognition
Musculo-skeletal
What Is Aging?
Changes in Lifestyle
Getting around
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
What Is Aging?
Changes in Lifestyle
 Getting around
 Living arrangements
What Is Aging?
Instrumental Activities of Daily
Living
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Doing light housework
Preparing meals
Taking medications
Shopping for groceries or clothes
Using the telephone
Managing money
Using technology
What Is Aging?
Activities of Daily Living
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Personal hygiene
Dressing and undressing
Eating
Transferring from bed to chair, and back
Voluntarily controlling urinary and fecal discharge
Elimination
Moving around (as opposed to being bedridden)
How Long Will I Live?
Life expectancy keeps increasing—is there
an end in sight?
How Long Will I Live?
80.2
75.1
48.3
46.3
U.S. Life
Expectancy
1900-2006
AGE
YEAR
How Long Will I Live?
 Life expectancy keeps increasing—is
there an end in sight?
 How old will you get?
How Long Will I Live?
Life Expectancy Calculators
 http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/per
l/CalcForm.html
 http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge
.php
 http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n
_expect/main.asp
Changing Aging
Active Engagement
 Does Rocking in a Rocking Chair Count
as Exercise?
 Let’s Party!
 Stay Positive
 Variety Is the Spice of Life
Changing Aging
Active Engagement
Changing Aging
Physical Well-Being
 Nutrition - We are what we eat
Changing Aging
Physical Well-Being
 Nutrition - We are what we eat
 Weight - On our bodies and on our minds
Obesity in the U.S.
BMI
Changing Aging
Physical Well-Being
 Nutrition - We are what we eat
 Weight - On our bodies and on our minds
 Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much
Changing Aging
Changing Aging
Physical Well-Being
 Nutrition - We are what we eat
 Weight - On our bodies and on our minds
 Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much
 Exercise - In or out of the rocking chair
Aerobic Exercise
Leisure Activity
by Age & Gender
2007
CDC
Growing Old is Not for Sissies
Leisure Activity
CDC
http://agingisnotforssies.org/index.htm
Changing Aging
Social Well-Being
Building Social Capital
 Multigenerational activities
Changing Aging
Social Well-Being
Building Social Capital
 Multigenerational activities
 Working
Changing Aging
Changing Aging
Changing Aging
Social Well-Being
Building Social Capital
 Multigenerational activities
 Working
 Volunteering
Changing Aging
Changing Aging
Stay Positive
Happiness
Stay Positive
Happiness is Contagious
Happiness clusters in the
Framingham social
network
Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338
Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338
Changing Aging
Stay Positive
Happiness
Laughter
Laughter
Laughter Yoga
Dr. Madan Kataria
Changing Aging
Variety Is the Spice of Life
 Thinking
 Dreaming
 Doing
Positive Aging
 Are you over the hill or gaining
momentum?
 What can you do to influence your
own positive aging?