Ontlametse: Delaying The Natural Effects Of Aging

Society is big on staying and looking young. People are constantly working out, watching what they eat, and getting surgeries such as botox and breast augmentation. Our society is too concerned on looking youthful. Morrie had aging in better perspective, "The young are not wise, they have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy… It's very simple. As you grow you learn more. If you'd stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, it's growth." Aging is more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die and that you live a better life because of it.

To slow down the aging process, you can alter things in your everyday life, for example smoking which is an extrinsic factor. Dr. Milton Moore, a Houston-based dermatologist says

That relationship did not last, since she went on to marry another man named Ricky Marquardt two months before Kenneth’s second birthday. Unfortunately, Ricky was abusive to Tammy and her child. Having to contact the Children’s Aid Society frequently in order to protect Kenneth made her living situation unbearable. Growing up, Kenneth had several health conditions, including asthma, pneumonia and epilepsy. He has also suffered several seizures over time in his life.

Humans are born already aging. There is know way to stop the process of getting older. As people age it is important that services and rescores are set up to

This syndrome is not very common, because it is a rare condition. Its prevalence is not certain, but the proximate amount is 5 to 10 individuals per million newborns. Research workers appraise that there are approximately 200 to 300 individuals around the world who have this disorder. It is observed with equivalent recurrence in both males and females over all ethnic groups.

Since the gene is recessive, a child will only present the symptoms of SLOS if both parents pass on a defective copy of the DHCR7 gene. Although it is rare, it happened to Audrey. Both of her parents, Amber and Brad Bowers, were unaware that they were carriers of the gene for SLOS. A carrier is a person who has one healthy copy and one mutated copy of a specific gene, and therefore does not present or experience any symptoms of the disorder. Since both Amber and Brad are carriers of the SLOS disease, each child they have will face a 25% chance of having SLOS. Brad and Amber currently have 3 children: Audrey (5yo) who is affected by SLOS, Liam (3yo) who is unaffected and Ben (1yo) who is also unaffected. Sadly, Brad and Amber lost their youngest son, Gabriel, after he battled with SLOS for 6 months. Studies indicate that SLOS affects approximately 1 in 20,000 to 60,000 newborns each year and this condition is most common in whites of European ancestry

Siblings: She had two brothers and one sister between 45 and 47-years old and they are healthy.

The aging process in late adulthood is called senescence. People cannot stop the effects of aging but there are alternatives that can help ease the process. These measures are not always followed because people make poor life choices such as smoking. Aging adults will even spend millions of dollars trying to slow the process of aging. No matter how much money they spend aging will occur.

Kevin, in Freak the Mighty, also known as Freak, has morquio syndrome. It stops him from doing a lot of things “normal” people can do, but that’s what makes his character so interesting. Morquio syndrome is a genetic disorder. (Reuters, 19) It is one of a group of lysosomal storage disorders scientifically known as mucopolysaccharidoses, or MPS IV-AI.(Reuters, 15) It is typically chronic and progressive, and involves multiple organs of the body.(Reuters, 19)

Emanuel Syndrome is a congenital chromosomal disorder that can disrupt the development of multiple parts of the entire body. Though numbers are growing, in 2012, over 200 causes of Emanuel Syndrome have been reported in the United States (Zaki, Mohamed, Kamel, El-Gerzway & El-Ruby, 2012). The numbers of those diagnosed with this disorder are low due to the low incidence of this population, but also because of how new this disorder is. In 2004, Emanuel Syndrome officially got its name (Chromosome 22 Central, 2016). Before this time, individuals who had symptoms of this disorder were diagnosed with varying names such as, Cat Eye Syndrome, 22 Syndrome, or 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. In 2004, a support parent group for children with these

Smith was diagnosed with a disease called thalassemia when he was two. Thalassemia is a rare blood disorder, and is more often fatal than not. Smith’s mother realized that something was wrong with him because of his sudden weight loss and extreme jaundice.

In order to better understand aging-associated diseases, it is first necessary to define what aging is. Aging is a complex, multifactorial process of harmful mutations in cells and tissues that are accumulated over time and result in an increased risk of disease and, eventually, death (Tosato, Zamboni, Ferrini, & Cesari, 2007, p. 401). Contrary to the belief that aging can be cured through medical advances, it is scientifically accepted that, while human life expectancy has increased, the human life span has remained largely unchanged for the past 100,000 years (Tosato et al., p. 401). Therefore, future developments in aging research ought to focus on addressing treatment and prevention of major aging-associated diseases that will

Lorraine Mitchell's heart broke as she watched her nine-year-old son scream in agony while he was awake and cry in pain when he was asleep as a rare disease destroyed his body.

As a 25-year-old adult, consider myself on the younger spectrum as far as biological age. However, I am being reminded daily that I am getting older. I no longer can recover from a workout as rapidly as I used to, I require more sleep after a night of staying up late, there are no more “all nighters”, and I have recently developed pain in my joints and spine. As you may have noticed, all the reasons I have listed above seem obviously negative. This is exactly what I am hoping to get out of this class. A positive perspective of the aging process. I have noticed when I pay attention to the physical aging process my body undergoes; my brain is focused on the negative changes and instead should be focusing on what my age has given me over the years. I am hoping, through taking this class, I will expand my knowledge tremendously on the aging process and begin to switch my way of thinking to a more positive one and begin living a better quality of life as the years pass.

The movie Last Vegas (2013) thoroughly presented the concept of the embodied aging and experience by creating a storyline based on the character, Billy, shared the good news of him finally proposing to his much younger girlfriend with his dearest friends and wanted them to be supportive in his decision-making. All four friends decided to escape from their daily lives a couple of days in order to throw a bachelor party together for Billy in Las Vegas (Last Vegas, 2013). They have been best friends since childhood, yet have experienced a different aging journey (Last Vegas, 2013). In the film, seniors are perceived as dominant and powerful characters because of their life experiences and wisdom.