Lecture 29 - Ageing

Question 1

Ageing definition?

Answer 1

gradual build up of unrepaired faults in cells and tissues, making us vulnerable to acute and chronic illness, alterable by lifestyle changes

Question 2

Psychological changes with age?

Answer 2

verbal and performance skills, attention, processing, working memory

Question 3

Physiological changes with age?

Answer 3

muscle strength, cardiac output, lung volume, renal function

Question 4

Diseases more common in older age?

Answer 4

dementia, arthritis, congestive heart failure, COPD, renal failure

Question 5

Increased risks of:

Answer 5

medications, minor illness, immobility

Question 6

Threshold of independent living?

Answer 6

declines with progressively wider variability after 30, illness causes drop, athleticism causes rise

Question 7

Factors contributing to dementia?

Answer 7

Early: poor education; Mid life: hearing loss, hypertension, obesity; Late: smoking, depression, inactivity, isolation, diabetes