HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Antihypertensive Drug, Baby Boomers, Phenotype

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH102
• Professor: David Hammond

Document Summary

Have more older ppl then younger ppl. Elderly take up about half of healthcare dollars. At the end - women"s life expectancy is longer, why there aren"t many men in the graph. Not increasing as much as other aspects of our health care system. Note just the fall itself, usually causes the person"s life to go downhill from there. Fragility - increased vulnerability, increases the risk of falls, disability etc have trouble recovering from something. More susceptible to problems, less able to recover. Phenotype - things you measure to depict whether someone is frail or not. Have acute health problem, get over it, but then stay in acute care bed Secondary infection, can"t take care of themselves - alc. All focused on individual level behaviour, not on the system. Ageing - like glacier rather than a tsunami, over a long period of time. People are living longer and babies arnt dying