KINE 2P44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Legal Drinking Age, Poor Posture, Kyphosis
15 Dec 2015
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Social aging: chronological age means very little now to our rites of passage in life (mostly dictated now by law) Ex. drivers license, legal drinking age, etc. Physical aging: how a person physically ages depends on everything. Aging is the result of genetic factors as well as environmental factors. Aging is a process that combines individual choice [ex. exercise] and the constraints [ex. biology] Aging does not lead inevitably to frailty and/or disability: frailty and disability typically occur the last few years, frailty/disability can be observed at any age. before death. Disability: difficulty in performing an adl (ex. dressing) or iadl (ex. shopping) Physical or mental condition that limits an activity. Only 40% of canadians over 65 report a disability: 80% of those are mobility problems, and only 4% with. Depends on pain tolerance, confusion personality, self esteem, formal/informal care, type of environment, living arrangements, etc.
