Ageing 101 Video Analysis

When it comes to aging, there are some positive aspects and negative aspects. The negative aspect of aging that I would want to avoid is having fragile bones, brittle hair and skin, and possible memory loss. The older a person gets the more their body tends to wear out and it becomes difficult to do activities because their body is not how it used to be. I would not want my bones to act and I wouldn’t want a hunch back either. I feel like my life would be miserable if my skeletal system was in pain most of the time. Next, when an individual becomes older, their skin and hair becomes brittle and them being old, they cannot maintain it. My skin is already sensitive, so I can only imagine how it be when I get older. Seniors skin tend to look loose and gets very delicate. The older you get, skin tears more often than usually. To add, my hair is very important to me and I spend so much time on it. I know growing old can cause your hair to be fragile. Furthermore, memory loss is suffered from a lot of seniors and

the way we are can be challenging and aging, even so much more. Taking care of the physical

We always want to live longer as much as we can and always wish to stay strong and healthy, this is not possible because the more we get older the more we becomes weak, sick and dependent on the health care system and caregivers. The purpose for this posting is to explain my views on the video living old, what I learn from the video, the most surprising thing to me in the video and one piece of information most likely to affect my nursing practice.

The first interesting fact that I got out of the video was over 1 quarter of babies adopted in the United States are from China and most of them are girls. They are girls because none of the Chinese families wanted girls. They do not want them because they want their family name to live on where if they have a girl they cannot. They also think a girl will move away from there area and never come back where a boy will work in that area and will stay. The word that I am going to relate to this is life span. Life Span is the maximum length of a species; for humans, the longest that a human has lived. I think this relates by showing how girls in China do not get a full life span. Well some didn’t that get adopted. The others though get either killed or abortion before they are even born. Life span is something very nice to live through while some people do not to even get to live through that

In the Movie “Aged out” shows a young woman by the name of Keely Lopez entering the foster care system. Her parents died of drug abuse and social diseases. Sometime later she entered the foster care and grew up in a residential program. At the age of 18 she was what was named “aged out” where she excited the program and ended up living independent in an apartment. Her live took a turn for the worse, she lost her job, mounting bills and the birth of a daughter.

Aging to me represents a normal cycle of life and normal part of my life path. However it’s up to me how I age. Trying to lead a healthy lifestyle will hopefully allow me to age well.

The video that enhanced my diversity lens in reference to aging, is the one about the millennials perception of what being old looks like. All the participants were asked to provide an age of what is considered to be an old person, along with the descriptions of how they would text, do push-ups and jumping jacks. However, the end results were the opposite of what the millennials perception was and proved to them that age is just a number. This perception of the younger generations made me realize that by the age of 40 years old, sadly, others have already labeled you as being an old person with limitations.

The article Understanding the Odd Science of Aging, characterize aging as “a progressive, generalized impairment of functions, resulting in an increasing vulnerability to environmental challenges and a growing risk of diseases and death.” In the article many theories are mentioned relating to why humans age such as the somatic mutation theory, telomere loss theory, mitochondrial theory, altered proteins theory and waste accumulation theory. Though

After visiting the website “Growing Old in Three Minutes,” I have learned a lot of useful information on the areas of vision, hearing, movement, and thinking. In regard to vision I have learned about the multiple problems that they can foresee. For example, the can suffer from age-related macular degeneration where they lose their central vision on average from 3 to 7 degrees. They can also suffer from open-angle glaucoma which can be treated if caught early enough. Diabetic retinopathy could also be a vision problem resulting in seeing blurry images and black spots and could possibly lead to blindness. Hearing is also a major problem as nearly 50% of Americans over the age of 75 report hearing loss. The different hearing loss problems was difficult to listen to, so I could only imagine what it must feel like to hear the buzzing or high pitched ringing everyday. In addition to those two problems they face they also have to deal with a change in their motor functioning. As they age they have a lose in their gate,

In the documentary “Aging Out” directed by Roger Weisber, it is noticeable how these three teenagers (Risa, David, and Danielle) were trying to get out of the Foster Care System and become independent adults. However, each one of them struggled with their task of becoming an independent person. I will provide you with one of the sociological paradigms that I believe is strong within the documentary. Structural- Functionalism Theory, which attempts to focus on the relationship between social institutions that are made up by society. The documentary gives perfect examples of Functionalism because we can notice that those teenagers have all received criticisms from all adults who are in their lives. Criticism is a big contributor to social change (which they experienced) because people use repetitive behavior since they only do what they have applied it, to overcome problems in the foster system, all they have accumulated from criticisms and see no way to better themselves.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary death means the end of life. Death it self is not a disease but as a result of disease themselves. You can cure the disease that can cause death but not death itself. According to NPR “the case that the average human lifespan has increased dramatically of late thanks to the engineering of sewage systems, antibiotics, and major progress in the prevention and treatment of many diseases.” (NPR, Goodenough, 2010) So this passage shown by NPR is saying due to the advance of technology we have made the human lifespan longer, but due to that we found out that there is a “120-year natural limit, just as there are natural limits on the life spans of dogs and redwoods.” (NPR. Goodenough,

The video we watched in class was about how aging effects the elderly. The video was told from the aging person’s point of view. Different people shared their stories about the complications of aging and the good things about aging. The doctor in the video, Dr. Mazur talked about the medical care needed for the elderly. He met his patients were they were at home, in nursing homes, or on the streets. One of his patients had cancer and was having trouble receiving care. Mr. Mazur explained to him his options and the patient stopped treatment so he could receive hospice care. His other patient wanted to move out of the facility he was in. The patient had numbers wrote down on a piece of paper about his plan but confused to not understanding

On May 9, 2014 a program called “Cyber Seniors” was made to teach the elderly how to use

Aging is the process of becoming older, as we age, multiple mutations occur that concern all the processes of aging well as it compromising a number of different genes. There are many theories of biological aging, such as the Cellular Aging Theory, Immunological Theory, and the Wear and Tear Theory. The Cellular Aging theory describes the process of aging in which cells slow their number of replication, thus giving each species a “biological clock that determines its maximum life span” and how quickly one 's health will deteriorate(Hooyman, 42). After a certain number of years, each cell which follows an apparent biological clock starts to replicate itself less, thus the specific individual or species slowly deteriorates. This theory gives

Causes of aging are very uncertain. Besides, there are several factors which predispose an individual to premature aging. Current theories suggest that this process occurs to due to cellular damage such as DNA oxidation by free radicals causing