Successful Aging

Question 1

What is healthy aging

Answer 1

• Continuous process of optimizing opportunities to maintain and improve physical and mental health, independence, and quality of life throughout the life course
• Includes both measurable and subjective outcomes
• Doesn’t require avoidance from disease, just an overall good health
• Promotion of healthy aging is putting the idea of healthy lifestyle into practice

Question 2

What is successful aging

Answer 2

• Defined as maintaining high physical, psychological, and social functioning in old age without major disease
• Focus is to expand out healthy and functional years later into our lifespan
• Typically includes avoiding disease and disability, however, people with chronic illness can still age successfully

Question 3

Biomedical aspects of successful aging

Answer 3

• Physiological functioning: Avoiding disease and disability
• Cognitive functioning: Maintain cognitive abilities and preventing memory disorders
• Physical functioning: Maintaining mobility and ability to perform ADLs

Question 4

Psychosocial aspects of successful aging

Answer 4

• Actively engaged in life: remaining socially involved and maintain their role in society
• Psychologically well adapted: positive perception of aging, high life satisfaction, and purpose in life

Question 5

Factors influencing successful aging

Answer 5

1. Physical and social environments
2. Individual personal characteristics
3. Maintaining healthy behaviours throughout life
4. Social determines of health
5. Social and community context
6. Economic stability
7. Education access and quality
8. Health care access and quality
9. Neighborhood and built environment
10. Balanced nutrition
11. Regular physical activity
12. Maintaining healthy behaviours

Question 6

Steps for successful aging

Answer 6

• Balanced diet, no smoking, physical activity
• Good and accessible education and health services
• Having economic stability
• Living in a good neighborhood
• Access to social services

Question 7

Challenges of successful aging

Answer 7

-Low income

• Minority status
• Low education level
• Geographic location

Question 8

Innovative approaches to successful aging

Answer 8

• Tech can help
• Social connectivity
• Health monitoring and management
• Safety and emergency response
• Assistive technologies
• Access health information and education

Question 9

Primary prevention

Answer 9

• An intervention that prevents disease or conditions from occurring
• Access to safe and high quality services and envrionments
• Promoting balanced diets, physical activity, and refraining from smoking

Question 10

Secondary prevention

Answer 10

• Program initiated after a condition has begun and before significant impairments have occured
• Regular checkups, improving diet, increasing physical activity, and quitting smoking

Question 11

Tertiary prevention

Answer 11

• Involves efforts to avoid the development of complications or secondary chronic conditions, and sustain life through medical interventions