Blue Zones

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The” Blue Zone” is places in the world where people living longer and healthier without disability and medications. The” Blue Zone” having not only people reach centenarians but super-centenarians. What is the secrets of this longevity? Dan Buettner makes the research with his team National Geographic, and National Institute on Aging to find the people living in those places call Blue Zone, and asks them question about their lifestyle to live longer and healthier. Dan Buettner and his team find five places in the world. Those places call Blue Zone are the Italian Island of Sardinia; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, California; Costa Rica’s Isolated Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, an Isolated Greek Island. The people living in Blue Zone live a lifestyle witch is plants based diet, move naturally, know your purpose, religion (have faith), 80% rule, drink wine five, belong to the right tribe, down shift, loved ones first, stay social. Can we find these people in Blue Zone and having their same lifestyle in our community here in Fredericksburg? Let choose three lifestyles in Blue Zone and compare to our community here in Fredericksburg: Plants based diet, move naturally, Love one first.

Malcolm Cowley, upon achieving eight decades of life, decided to write an essay, “The View from 80,” in order to educate people. People who think they know a lot about being geriatric but have not actually experienced what it is like to be a senior citizen. Anyone can make observations or make educated guesses about what being old should mean, but Cowley objects that his view is more legitimate and the rest of the age groups should adjust their attitudes based on his assertions. Cowley does all of this in a light hearted and entertaining way. Using a casual structure, humorous anecdotes, stimulating imagery and witty language, Cowley shows that, even though the rest of the generations think that the aging should gradually fade away from society, relax after a long life and wait for fate to take its course, elderly people should not subscribe to this lifestyle. Rather, his aging compatriots should carpe diem and

The humanity of aging is a concept sometimes hard to grasp. Understanding why we are

Markee states that young people may not be concerned about ageism until it affects them. The reality is that it affects them now, and has since they were born. And the further they push addressing it, the more deeply it will affect them. Supporting an elder can help the individual figure out how they will fact the issue later on. The author then lists some measure allies of elders can take to help the older community. Some statements fall in different categories about their mindset, physical, mental, and psychological health. Older people should be assumed to have the potential to be brilliant, that they have long, productive futures, and that they have given up in life. Also, older people are sexually appealing and that they do have sexual needs. Older people should also be offered to give their opinion without being interrupted. Allies should not think that memory loss or physical deterioration is the result of being old, but could be accumulated distress or illness. The author ends the essay by mentioning that allies should choose an elder that is not being supported and support them. This could be beneficial to the ally. Just as it is the duty of the dominant group to support the disenfranchised group, as in the case for white leaders to support people of color leaders, as members of the upper case should support members of the working class, younger leaders should support older

As the baby boomer generation is starting to age and retire, there will be an increase for retirement and estate planning services. While some of these retirees will find this not important, some will take action. Children will start to help parents plan for their aging needs and assisting with getting their parent’s affairs in order. Although, most people between the age of 50 and 70 are more concerned with watching how much money will be available upon retirement, they will have to seriously start talking about uncomfortable things such as aging issues, such as failing health, unexpected death and diminishing mental capacity. As uncomfortable as these things are to talk about, it is most imperitive to think about “what if” scenarios

Many people fear the inevitable, old age. No one wants to depend on anyone after they have lived life to the fullest of their potential and have become wise beyond their years. No one teaches you how to prepare your life for old age, how to shop for long term care, what kind of groceries to buy to keep your cognitive mind and strength going or what kind of exercises to do to keep your body strong. Unfortunately, there is no getting old class taught in school to prepare people for the damage time does on their heart, body, and soul. Once the inevitable comes people are left depending on relatives or advocates to make decisions for them.

In this chapter we learned a lot of neat facts about social gerontology such as: 2/3 of how long a person lives is based on their lifestyle, the oldest old is the fastest growing population in the United States, and life expectancy has gone up 50% for both males and females in the United States. The most interesting thing I learned in this module is the myth: to be old is to be sick. I learned that there are many different factors that help reinforce this thought process. Media is a big factor in this manner of thinking. Media outlets tend to focus on the fragility of ageing, and help push the irreversibly ill stereotype. Which is when someone gets sick that they will never recover and live a productive life again. I also learned about a concept

a message about what old age pensioners are really like and what there thoughts are about

My peers would not be able to nor wish to adopt the habit of people who live in blue zones because of their eating habits. Most of my peers are teenagers. Which means they do not wish to cook nor eat healthy food. Teenagers tend to eat food that taste or looks good and is already prepared for them. Fast foods are heaven to teenagers because they provide a source of food that taste good and does not require any effort on their part. Meanwhile, adults who live in a blue zone tend to

Older people can learn many things from my generation. One thing they can learn is acceptance. My generation can teach older generations to be more acceptant of other people and their differences whether it’s their gender, ethnicity, nationality or religion. People are not born to hate, hate is taught. I would like to believe that my generation is more compassionate. We could teach older people compassion by being more compassionate and teaching future generations the same. If we all just treat each other as we would like to be treated the world would be a better place for all.

Blue Zones are an idea used to recognize a demographic and/or geographic region of the world where individuals live quantifiable much longer lives. There are five blue zones on the planet and the general population who live within these zones live to be more than 100+ years without anyone else's input. When I say independent from anyone else I mean they don't have machines helping them breath or specialists coming in to keep an eye on them. These are ordinary individuals living their lives and may have figured out how to help other people live their lives longer. Individuals have gone and concentrated on these ranges and have returned with ways they may have helped them stay alive longer. I am going to stick to Six fundamental

problems or even personal problems are getting out of hand due to the fact of

Knowing and having an understanding of what ageing stands for, remains an important step, growing-up or growing older and ageism are theories about older individuals. Ageism includes preconceptions that elderly are categorized for their age and perceived as weak, and incapable of performing tasks and needy of others (Quadagno, 2014). Another view about elderly individuals is the way they are looked down on by the younger society, i.e. elderly are not as intelligent as their younger competitive working force. People fear what they do not know and do not understand. Age transpires as something that must be lived through in order to understand what ageing means; looking back on one’s life and seeing accomplishments made,

Humanity has come a long way as we evolve and adapt to the changing environment. Through the years, we have managed to overcome several limitations, which in the past were nothing more than dreams. We succeeded in landing on the moon and communicating over long distance, yet there are still some boundaries we have yet to cross despite our best effort. Aging is an inevitable process of nature. While we cannot stop the ticking clock in our body, we have made it possible for aging to be delayed and relieved to a great extent through advance technology and modern governance. High-tech equipments and medications are available for the treatments of more illnesses as our understanding of medicine improves and governments nowadays are doing