Ageing is an Unpredictable Process Ageing is an unpredictable process. Aging is defined as the accumulation of changes in an organism or object over time. Ageing in humans refers to a multidimensional process of physical‚ psychological‚ and social change. Many people age gracefully and some not so pleasingly. There are many stages in life to adult hood. Eric Erickson believes we develop into adulthood in eight stages that begins at birth. Erickson studied development of adults in depth and found
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see aging as a weakness rather than a strength. Before reading this book‚ my perspective of aging was more inclined towards the negative aspects. I worked in a nursing home for two years as a dietary aide and watched patient’s conditions worsen with time. I have always perceived the elderly as fragile and unable to care for themselves. There were a few occasions in which I interacted with patients and was able to appreciate the joys of aging. After reading this book‚ my perspective of aging has most
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Theories of Aging related to Nursing From the reading this week I learned that even though some cognitive functions in old age decline people regardless of age can continue to learn. The cognitive skills that remain stable are attention span‚ language skills‚ communication skills‚ comprehension and discourse and visual perception. Some of the skills that decline with age are verbal fluency logical analysis‚ selective attention object naming and complex vision spatial skills.( Toughy and Jett 2010)
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sign of good health; and aging is a natural process that influences the individual‚ family and society in different ways. Ageing bring along a number of changes in the physical‚ psychological‚ hormonal and the social conditions. Define aging in terms of the biological; referring to "the regular changes that occur in mature genetically representative organism living under reprehensive environmental conditions as they advance in chronological age". Edward J. Stiegitz defines aging "as the element of time
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conducted an individualized aging assessment on a 65 year old Hispanic lady initialed T.M. During the interview we discussed her beliefs‚ ideas and lived experiences on what she perceives as successfully aging. Ms. T.M informed me that she is a widow and has five living children. Currently she resides with her eldest daughter and son-in-law. T.M is still employed as a nurse and states that she fears the day when she will have to retire. When asked what she sees as issues of aging as they affect her well-
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Social Theories of Aging Age Stratification Theory People are grouped into age cohorts‚ known as age strata. Age is one basis of control over resources‚ such as allocation of jobs. Age categories change through time based on historical events‚ biological and social aging. Roles and how you should act‚ are based upon which age strata you are born into‚ and how these change over time (both individual time‚ as you age‚ and how your age strata moves through society at a particular point in historical
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Aging Biology Megen Clarke As time goes on its inevitable that a human or animals age‚ there is no stopping time on a human’s body. It is the build-up of changes in a person over time. With humans‚ aging is referred to as a multidimensional procedure of physical‚ social and psychological transformation. In some dimensions‚ aging it grow and expand over time‚ whereas in others‚ it may decline. An example of this is reaction time; it may slow with age while information of world events and
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Let alone‚ one topic that resonated with me is the topic about psychological disorders. I didn’t really know a lot of the disorders that this topic talk is about but after the course and the topic‚ I was able to understand different kinds of disorders that affects one and what one can do to prevent all those disorders. For instance‚ obsessive-compulsive disorders were one of the disorders that resonated me because learning this disorder enabled me to understand more how people get stressed. In the
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I had moderate difficulty picking a topic that would expand both of the aspects of aging that our two classes have been studying over the course of this summer. After much debate with myself‚ and the wise council of my elders‚ I have decided to take a moderate dip into the connections between ‘spirituality’ and ‘successful aging’ and make a tie in with how policy is affecting what dictates ‘successful aging’ and ‘spirituality’ itself. Then I will provide an example of a current program/facility that
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INTRODUCTION 1.1: Study Background The population aging‚ in other words‚ the greying of the population is major concern all over the world. Many factors are leading to population aging‚ namely‚ unwillingness to marry‚ late marriage‚ fertility control‚ low birth rate and longer life span. All these factors are also related to developing status of the country. The more the country is developing‚ the more the factors have stronger effect on aging population and the age population problems of the country
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