Transcript 11-2 (Part 2): Physical Changes in Later Life

Module 11
Section 2
Health, Dementia and Alzheimer’s
Disease
(Pages 175 – 177)
Armyn Padilla
Kyana Robinson
Sophia Oh
Health
• Positive to aging: Older people less often suffer short-term ailments
(common flu and cold viruses)
– Elderly are more susceptible to life-threatening ailments (cancer,
pneumonia)
• Negatives to aging: Body’s disease fighting immune system weakens
• Aging causes a tax on the brain by slowing our neural processing.
• Brain regions important to memory begin to decease during aging.
• EXERCISING FEEDS YOUR BRAIN.
– Birth of new cells helps compensate for cell loss
– Active older adults  mentally quicker
Alzheimer’s DiseAse
• Definition: A progressive and irreversible brain
disorder characterized by gradual
deterioration of memory, reasoning, language,
and finally, physical functioning
• It effects 3% of the population by age 75
• It destroys first memory then reasoning
• The end result is an emotionally flat and
unresponsive being.
Dementia
• As they age, some adults suffer a great loss of brain
cells.
• Dementia: a mental erosion caused by a series of
small strokes, a brain tumor, alcoholism, etc.