HLTH201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Apoptosis, Cryonics, Cardiovascular Disease
23 Oct 2016
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The idea of normal in aging is up for debate. Rowe and kahn (1998): avoidance of disease and disability, Adaptation: deal with it, cope, choose to accomplish goals: not something rowan khan talked about- it happens all the time, Transcendence: changes in overall perspective, embrace it: i"m not going to adapt, i"m going to embrace it. Ex: when the jogger"s wife died and he started jogging. Importance of maintaining, growing social and personal connections. Individual chronic aging: focus: on the person, influenced by: social, physical, behavioural, cognitive (the more your brain develops when you"re young, the greater chance of survival you have), goals: extension, improvement, quality of life, duration: lifelong, influences: external, At this point, body cells cease to replace themselves at the same rate at which they"re dying, so we begin to die and age. This process continues to out death and affects all of our body systems.
