De Grey Case Study

Berger (2008) state that late adulthood, which begins at age 65, is the final stage of the life span development process that culminates through the death of an individual. During the course of the twentieth century the notion of late adulthood changed significantly (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). The average person’s life expectancy increased probably by 30 years. This changed the proportion of North Americans over 65 years from 1900s one in 30 to a projection by the year 2040 that it will be one in five. This drastically changed the perceptions of late adulthood (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). For example,

2. The MSNBC webcast recounts different stories of the aging population in America. One of the cases mentioned in the web cast is Arden peters and his wife Maxine. The aging theory of wear and tear can be applied to the case of Arden peters who has lost his wife Maxine due to dementia and Parkinson’s. He himself became too weak to care for himself due to the process of aging (MSNBC, n.d). He reached a point where he required someone to care for him. His friend Warren DeWitt is taking care of him and previously helped him take care of his wife until she passed away (MSNBC, n.d). The theory of wear and tear is based on the notion that aging is caused by damages done at the cellular level over time (Hawkley, Berntson, Engeland, Marucha, 2005). The processes that could damage the cells could be sickness, radiation, and accumulation of toxic materials over time

Our life is something that is so precious. Every choice we make impacts our life wether it be physically or mentally. When we choose to make poor life choices, it will reflect on us as individuals. Poor choices in what we consumed or how active we are will lead to a life that can lead to an early death. Obesity is an epidemic health problem that has been one of the leading causes to death. The disease itself causes sever health conditions as well as mental health issues.no one wants to become obese, but in today’s society we have been given the perfect recipe that will land us in a fight for our life. Obesity is not something that simply happens, but a lifetime of poor choices. We must discover the source of obesity and attack the health issue from the primary leading factors. We start with the source in order to help improve the lives of people everywhere who are battling this disease, as well as those who are predisposed to a higher chance of developing it.

Once an adult reaches retirement, they begin to slow down, if they have not already, and reflect upon a long life lived. They are at the mercy of many decades worth of memories, some good and some bad. The elder will feel a sense of wellbeing if they are satisfied with their life. This satisfaction roots itself in accomplishment. Humans usually want to undertake many things in their lives. Some are able to attain these and others are not. Those that do achieve their goals are filled with a sense of gratification. Arlene Handler says that Erikson calls this “integrity” (The Developmental Stages of Erik Erikson, 2002 (revised 2009)). This also allows for a quiet acceptance of death. People who accept death as inevitable do so with grace and ease. They look at their life and see an adventure with hills and valleys, but valleys that they were able to climb out of with might and determination. Erikson thought this to be remarkable and was amazed by elderly people’s resiliency. He found that the strength at this stage was wisdom and that all the experiences

The question of life extension has been a long debated one through the years, and the reality of it is just becoming more and more real as medical and scientific technologies improve. But if no one dies, what will happen to the population? Will this be available to everyone? These questions and many others will have to be taken into account if these technological advances do materialize. Because of these ethical problems, anti-aging should not be heavily implemented into society.

Today I’m going to expose the less than desirable side of eternal youth, everlasting life, radically longer human life spans, or any other terminology that you'd like to use to describe the event of seeming eternal life, because an essay published in August of 2013 by the Pew Research Center claims biomedical scientists will be able to extend the average american life span to beyond 120 years by 2050 (Liu). which is all good and well, but you really wouldn't want to live that long

The magazine, Psychology Today, says that as time passes the older adult becomes unhappy in countless ways, Dr. Fredric Neuman states that older people begin to talk about how their time is limited or “up,” and usually defy death with acrimony and levelheadedness. In addition he says that impending death takes some reflection about life and the more awful you feel your life has been the less satisfaction you have about life in general (Neuman, 2013). And when it is all said and done, we die. The meaning and the purpose we found in life was pursued in permanency. However, we know that nothing lasts forever, not the body, not things, not what we have accomplished, and over time, all that we were is forgotten (Neuman, 2013). What we have learned to do is live as long as possible, most of us are happy even through our struggles and many of us know that the meaning of our lives is found not in

To me, Successful aging depends on what the norm of the society is. I define success in three different categories, where we stand in our society financially, physically, how satisfied we are with our lives so far. Society is a major cause of how to measure our satisfaction in our lives, such as, we cannot compare the lives of the people who live within developing nation to the ones that live in the developed nation. We have to compare people depending on their class, as different classes have different standard of satisfaction in life. Obviously in a developed nation people tend to live longer because they are well educated, while they get older, they know what is good and bad for their body. Similarly, the people who live within the developed

The topic that I have chosen to look at is obesity. The aim of this topic is to find out whether “the ignorance of genetics as a contra factor of obesity”. I have chosen to look at this topic because obesity is concerns me. Obesity has always been a bid debate for a long time now and I was intrigued to find out more about the topic and the cause of obesity. The fact that obesity has made deadlines news in recent years. There are a lot of misconceptions about obesity such as overweight is caused by a sow metabolism. There have been a lot of beliefs and myths about obesity in society today and he above myths is on of them. According to Donnellan (1998) ‘ ‘people who are overweight have told their doctors that they eat no more and

People take death as a negative attribute when it starts to affect their lives. They strongly believe, that as their life goes on they are one step to closer to the end of their existence. As a result, they will play out the rest of their time by being cautious of the choices they make, and also by taking the easy way out. For example, they might stop exercising because they are old or frustrated with the results. This change in lifestyle happens to all of us as we grow older. In an article called How Happiness Change With Age, social psychologists describe this change as a consequence of a gradual shifting from promotion motivation -- seeing our goals in terms of what we can gain, or how we can end up better off, to prevention motivation—seeing

Today there is a international epidemic, there are more than two billion people on this earth are obese, that’s over thirty percent and that number isn’t falling it is rising dangerously fast. The Director general of the world health organization Dr. Margaret Chan called it a problem of “epidemic proportions” and that is not all everyone from the First lady, Michelle Obama to celebrates like Steve-O and prominent athletes such as Lance Armstrong have all come out and commented on the topic of obesity and the world problems it is causing us. Only now in the passed couple decades has the light been shined on the topic and the push to understand it has begun. In order to first solve this problem we must look at the history behind it and the environment

In this week’s assignment, I’ve learned several things about how aging affects you physically and mentally.  With my personal growth, this week’s assignment it made me realize why we age and we get older. It is a mystery and there are many theories about how we age.  This expanded my knowledge because it forced me to look into why our bodies and minds age.  I did not know about the theories of aging and how we age, this a new concept and something I did not have an understanding about.  I believed it was the way life evolved. You’re born as an infant that develops into a young person that matures into an adult. The most valuable lesson I’ve learned, there are four theories of aging. The theories are 1. Oxidative stress - the body inability

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

There are numerous ways to define successful aging. The word “aging” usually has a negative connotation. However, when putting the word success behind it introduces positive aspects that can essentially promote a long-term developmental outcome for an individual. Happening around midlife and late adulthood, successful aging is simply when an individual has complete development and maintenance of control throughout life, has achieved in the selection of goals and purposes, as well as maximization of gains and compensations of failure. This is the complete and ultimate goal for those in their late adulthood and is quite fascinating to developmental scientist. Those who engross themselves with attempting to achieve a successful aging will most likely have characteristics which in turn encourage and advocate for things such as health, growth, and vitality, maintaining social encounters and productive activities, and lastly maintaining high physical and cognitive functioning. Two developmental scientist, Vaillant & Mukamal, have discovered the factors that predict satisfaction of life are those an individual is able to control. These factors include are health habits, marital stability, years of education, and coping strategies. On the other hand those factors that are out of an individual 's control can not predict the level of happiness or satisfaction with life. These include the length of life of a family member, early health status, parental SES, and family warmth in

The Asian CRM market was smaller but is growing and taking a shift into customer service due to technological advances in the Internet and E-Commerce. AMR research says it will be worth 16.8 billion in 2003. Asian companies have begun moving away from generalization model of marketing towards the specialization model. Companies are beginning to understand the importance of CRM because it costs 5 times as much to acquire a new customer than to retain an existing customer. Within the Asian Market, China is the main target because it is critical for growth due to its size and strategy.