What impact does aging have on the physical processes of life? As a health care administrator, how will that influence services provided to those aging? Provide details.

 

Question 1

Ageing results from the effects of the accumulation of a large range of molecular and cellular damage over time at the biological level. It leads to a progressive decline in physical and mental capacity, a rising risk of illness, and finally death. But these modifications are neither linear nor continuous, and they are only loosely related to the age of an individual in years. Although some 70-year-olds are exceptionally safe and working, other 70-year-olds are fragile and need substantial assistance from others.

Ageing is also correlated with other life transformations beyond biological shifts, such as retirement, transfer to more suitable accommodation, and the death of friends and partners. It is important not only to consider approaches that enhance the losses associated with older age in the creation of a public health response to ageing, but also those that can strengthen recovery, adaptation and psychosocial growth.

Changes in mobility in aging adults may result from changes in gait, balance, and physical strength, and can have a negative impact on the number and severity of falls, social involvement, and independence. Also common among older adults is the loss of sensory functions such as vision, hearing, or the ability to taste. Research funded by the NIA to better understand the underlying mechanisms of age-related sensory and motor changes would provide the knowledge base needed to establish therapies that in later years of life optimize mobility and sensory function.The occurrence of many complex health states that appear to occur only later in life and that do not fall into different categories of disease is often defined by older age. They are widely referred to as geriatric syndromes. Sometimes they are the product of numerous underlying causes which include frailty, urinary incontinence, falls, ulcers of delirium and strain.

It appears that geriatric syndromes are better predictors of death than the presence or number of particular diseases. Yet they are also ignored in historically organized health care and epidemiological studies outside of countries that have developed geriatric medicine as a specialty.

Question 2

The incidence of disability will decrease because the advancements we make in medicine will delay the progression of illness from chronic disease to disability. As a result, serious disabilities will decrease, but milder chronic disorders will increase.The incidence of disability will decrease because the advancements we make in medicine will delay the progression of illness from chronic disease to disability. As a result, serious disabilities will decrease, but milder chronic disorders will increase.

The potential budgetary feasibility of pension, health and social security schemes, both public and private, and the consequences of these systems for savings and investment rates, are the most significant policy issues related to health and longevity. The effects of population ageing would be prominently affected by how long individuals continue working, paying taxes, and investing. Owing to longer periods of education and training in early life, earlier retirement, and increased longevity, many people now work less than half a lifetime, posing a challenge to the viability of programs designed to serve older people. If, without a parallel expansion of working life, the trend towards increased longevity persists, the burden on these systems could be much greater.

 Health care for older people varies in many ways from that provided to other age groups: greater demands for resources; the interconnection of specialist health services with social services; the regular incidence of major ethical conundrums; a higher prevalence of physical and mental disabilities; and maybe not as evident in policy formulation, less scientific support for