PSY 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Memantine, World Health Organization
20 Apr 2016
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Class notes chapter 5 - health and prevention and elder abuse. Health: state of well-being. physical, mental, and social well-being . Measures of ability to adapt to everyday life* Activities of daily living (adl): (buted: bathing, using the toilet, dressing. Instrumental activities of daily living (iadl): use the telephone, go shopping. Prepare meals: complete housekeeping tasks, do the laundry, use private or public transportation. This provides a functional assessment of health status by indicating the degree of independence someone can maintain. Behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases in adulthood (picture) Diseases of the cardiovascular system chart in class (picture) Goes up and hasn"t dipped in the past thirty years. No country has been able to plateau the incident of cardiovascular disease. People from lower social economic backgrounds are usually more obese, relationship between having access to fresh foods and vegetables if you have a higher income.
