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Positive Aging

Positive Aging. Positive Aging. What Is Aging Changing Aging. What Is Aging?. What age do you consider “old”? How will you know when you are “old”?. What Is Aging?. What Is Aging?. What Is Aging?. Well- derly Dale Anderson, MD. What Is Aging?. Changes in physiology

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Positive Aging

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  1. Positive Aging

  2. Positive Aging What Is Aging Changing Aging

  3. What Is Aging? • What age do you consider “old”? • How will you know when you are “old”?

  4. What Is Aging?

  5. What Is Aging?

  6. What Is Aging? Well-derly Dale Anderson, MD

  7. What Is Aging? • Changes in physiology • Changes in health • Changes in lifestyle

  8. What Is Aging? • Changes in physiology • Cellular

  9. What Is Aging? • Changes in physiology • Cellular • Tissue/Physical

  10. What Is Aging?

  11. What Is Aging? Changes in physiology • Cellular • Tissue/Physical • Function

  12. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness

  13. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness • Disease and chronic disease

  14. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness • Disease and chronic disease • Disability

  15. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness • Disease and chronic disease • Disability • Cognition

  16. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness • Disease and chronic disease • Disability • Cognition • Dementia

  17. What Is Aging?

  18. What Is Aging? Changes in health • Overall fitness • Disease and chronic disease • Disability • Cognition • Musculo-skeletal

  19. What Is Aging? Changes in Lifestyle Getting around

  20. What Is Aging?

  21. What Is Aging?

  22. What Is Aging? Changes in Lifestyle • Getting around • Living arrangements

  23. What Is Aging? Instrumental Activities of Daily Living • Doing light housework • Preparing meals • Taking medications • Shopping for groceries or clothes • Using the telephone • Managing money • Using technology

  24. What Is Aging? Activities of Daily Living • Personal hygiene • Dressing and undressing • Eating • Transferring from bed to chair, and back • Voluntarily controlling urinary and fecal discharge • Elimination • Moving around (as opposed to being bedridden)

  25. How Long Will I Live? Life expectancy keeps increasing—is there an end in sight?

  26. How Long Will I Live? 80.2 75.1 48.3 46.3 U.S. Life Expectancy 1900-2006 AGE YEAR

  27. How Long Will I Live? • Life expectancy keeps increasing—is there an end in sight? • How old will you get?

  28. How Long Will I Live? • http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html • http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php • http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expect/main.asp Life Expectancy Calculators

  29. Changing Aging Active Engagement • Does Rocking in a Rocking Chair Count as Exercise? • Let’s Party! • Stay Positive • Variety Is the Spice of Life

  30. Changing Aging Active Engagement

  31. Changing Aging Physical Well-Being • Nutrition - We are what we eat

  32. Changing Aging Physical Well-Being • Nutrition - We are what we eat • Weight - On our bodies and on our minds

  33. Obesity in the U.S.

  34. BMI

  35. Changing Aging Physical Well-Being • Nutrition - We are what we eat • Weight - On our bodies and on our minds • Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much

  36. Changing Aging

  37. Changing Aging Physical Well-Being • Nutrition - We are what we eat • Weight - On our bodies and on our minds • Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much • Exercise - In or out of the rocking chair

  38. Aerobic Exercise

  39. Leisure Activity by Age & Gender 2007 CDC

  40. Growing Old is Not for Sissies

  41. Leisure Activity CDC http://agingisnotforssies.org/index.htm

  42. Changing Aging Social Well-Being Building Social Capital • Multigenerational activities

  43. Changing Aging Social Well-Being Building Social Capital • Multigenerational activities • Working

  44. Changing Aging

  45. Changing Aging

  46. Changing Aging Social Well-Being Building Social Capital • Multigenerational activities • Working • Volunteering

  47. Changing Aging

  48. Changing Aging Stay Positive Happiness

  49. Stay Positive

  50. Happiness is Contagious Happiness clusters in the Framingham social network Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338 Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338

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