Older Adults 4

Question 1

What is used as a biomarker of aging?

Answer 1

Telomere length

Question 2

What is senolytics?

Answer 2

Studying of how to slow aging, focus on research that adds resistance to apoptosis

Question 3

What is the older americans act?

Answer 3

• supplies grants for states for funding and social services
• established Administration on Aging (administers the grants)
• originally passed in 1965 due to lack of community social services for older persons

Question 4

What are some examples of older adult programs?

Answer 4

• Adult Day Care Centers
• Congregate Meals
• Meals on Wheels (food delivery, wheelchairs, access to medications, pet care, cooking classes)
• Age of Central Texas (social and wllness centers, memory loss support, medications, equipment lending, computer classes)
• Home Instead (in home senior care - personal care, nursing, meal prep, transportation, hospice support)

Question 5

What are some end of life considerations?

Answer 5

• elder abuse and neglect
• living will
• pain management
• consequences of forcing fluids at end of life
• ethical and legal considerations

research indicates no pain with withholding food/fluids at end of life