To meet the needs of older people most countries have moved toward community-based care as a means of providing adequate and cost-effective care. Community-based care focuses around an integrated and more comprehensive approach to the special needs of older persons, their families, and the community. This type of model involves and requires inter-organizational collaboration and interdisciplinary cooperation. A community-based approach in social services and in health care is a strategic approach to meet the mounting demands for integrated health and social services for the elderly. Community health care usually includes both the health and social services sectors. (more…)

Hayflick suggested that the aging process was by a biological clock, which includes all living cells, controlled. The study found that in 1961 human fibroblast cells (lung, skin, muscles, heart) have a limited lifespan. Nutrition appears to affect the rate of cell division are: cell consists of 50 departments in a supercharged year, while the cells fed up to three times longer than normal cells to divide. (more…)

Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is the core daily personal care activities that are necessary in order for people to be able to live independently. Loss of mental functioning is measured by other standardized tests and referred to as cognitive impairment. Activities of Daily Livings are particularly important because along with cognitive impairment, and in some cases “medical necessity,” they are the mechanism used by the insurance industry to determine qualification for long-term care benefits and may also be used to determine qualification for admission to a nursing or assisted living home facility. (more…)

The overarching goal of physical therapy rehabilitation is to return the individual to as close to the premorbid level of function as possible or, alternatively, to maximize a person’s current potential for function and maintain it as long as possible. This goal is achieved by promoting changes in the individual, by altering his or her physical health elderly or social environments, or by implementing a combination of both strategies. (more…)

There are many options of foods and supplements that we can choose to slow the aging process. Not only it helps maintain our youthful look, it helps us live a life of quality, as we advance in life. Many of aging problems is associated with oxidants that we found in our daily lives. Some oxidants substances are know for their ability to accelerate the aging process. Many of them can be derived from food and dietary anti aging supplements. The important point is we can do much to help slow the pace and intensity of aging process. (more…)

Mutations that extend lifespan in invertebrates typically render the animals resistant to multiple forms of lethal injury, whether the threat comes from oxidative agents, heat, heavy metals, or irradiation. Indeed, this stress resistance seems likely to represent the mechanism by which these mutations delay the aging process. Thus presumably much of the cellular and extracellular pathology that produces dysfunction and increases mortality risk in older animals is held in abeyance by the same, poorly defined, defenses that permit nematodes and flies to survive when exposed to external stress in an experimental setting. (more…)

Because it expresses my own orientation, I carry in my wallet a membership card to the Society for the Right to Die, which has imprinted on the back a signed statement of my living will.

When the aging process accelerates inexorably, you usually don’t just fail to wake up one morning because of old age. One of the many illnesses that afflict the elderly with increasing frequency will likely be the cause of death and dying. Here is where I feel a living will is important. (more…)

Approximately 35% of the factors that influence life expectancy are inherited. Accelerated aging is therefore usually associated with genetic abnormalities. None of the accelerated aging syndromes, however, leads to a uniform, systematic “speeding up” of the aging process. A number of genetic disorders can lead to premature or accelerated aging (also referred to as progerias), including Down syndrome, Hutchinson– Gilford syndrome, and Werner’s syndrome. (more…)

The senses of smell and taste are termed chemical senses because they detect chemical stimuli and encode chemosensory information into neural signals. A variety of diagnostic terms have been used to describe smell and taste disorders. Standard classification terms for olfactory disorders are anosmia (absence of smell), hyposmia (diminished sensitivity of smell), and dysosmia (distortion of normal smell). Phantosmia, a type of dysosmia, refers to perception odor in absence of an odor stimulus, and parosmia refers to distortion of odor perception when an odor is present. For taste, diagnostic terms include ageusia (absence of taste), hypogeusia (diminished sensitivity of taste), and dysgeusia (distortion of normal taste). (more…)

Aging is not only about old age. This is an ongoing process which will define the stages of biological, psychological and social conditions in human lives. Aging has limit for averages human life expectancy rate. For centuries, many have tried modern science to delay human life expectancy rate so much from this frightening condition of man. There are millions of websites on the internet providing information on aging and more than half a million consultations related searches information on how to alter averages human life expectancy rate. (more…)