| A | B |
|---|
| What is happening to population? | Aging |
| Who has highest life expectancy? | White female |
| Who has lowest life expectancy? | Black male |
| No chronic disease & functional independence | Succesful agers |
| Goal of successful ager | Maintain health &prevent disease |
| Some diabilty, some chronic disease, able to function | Usual ager |
| Goal of usual agers | Prevent diability |
| Decline in physical function & dementia | accelerated ager |
| goal of accelerated ager | Maintain functional status and increase independence |
| Factors that determine how you age (2) | Genetics & lifestyle |
| Lifestyle factors in aging (5) | Diet, exercise, rest, alcohol & smoking, healthy weight |
| Sarcopenia (lose of muscle) | Causes of disability in elderly |
| Osteoporosis (lose of bone) | Causes of disability in elderly |
| Arthritis | Causes of disability in elderly |
| Heart disease | Causes of disability in elderly |
| Cognitive problems | Causes of disability in elderly |
| Causes of disability in elderly (5) | Sarcopenia, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease, and cognitive problems |
| Changes in body composition (3) | Decrease body mass, decrease bone mineral, & increase in body ft |
| Consequences of lost body mass (3) | Weakened response to illness, decreased mobilty, & instability (falls) |
| Instabilty (falls) | consequence of lost body mass |
| decreased mobilty | nsequence of lost body mass |
| weakened response to illness | nsequence of lost body mass |
| Bone mass begins to decrease starting at age | 50 |
| What contributes to decrease in bone mineral density? | Lower Vitamin D production |
| Consequences of bone density lose (2) | osteoporosis and fractures |
| Inadequate calcium uptake and lack of exercise | osteoporosis |
| Leads to broken bones & decreased mobilty | osteoporosis |
| Loss of height | osteoporosis |
| Consume calcium and vitamin D, weight bearing exercise | Prevent osteoporosis |
| Deterioration of joints | Arthritis |
| Leading cause of disability & pain | Arthritis |
| Common among obese people | Arthritis |
| Improved through weight lose & exercise | Arthritis |
| Eroding cartilage, bone ends rub, inflamation | Arthritis |
| Poor digestion, loss of teeth, & decreased saliva | Other joys of aging |
| Nutrient need elderly vitamin D | Increase |
| Nutrient need elderly calcium | Increase |
| Nutrient need elderly vitamin B6 | increase |
| Nutrient need elderly iron | decrease |
| Nutrient need elderly Vitamin B12 | Supplements recommended |
| Decreased absorbtion by kidneys leads to | dehydration |
| Impaired thirst mechanism | dehydration |
| factors affecting food choices in elderly (7) | Depression,grief/loss, faddism, socioeconomic, income, cooking facilities, isoation, & transportation |
| Spending money on nutrition | Saves cost |
| Determine predictors of malnutrition | Disease, eating poorly, tooth lose, Economic hardship, Reduced social contact, multiple medications, involuntary weight lose, need of assistance, ederly over 80 |
