OLD AGE

young-old (65-74 years),
old-old (75-84 years)
and oldest-old (85 years

ff).

OLD AGE
Positive components

of old age

  Increased wisdom

Experience

Expertise.

Negative component of old age  - Decline

CHANGES IN OLD AGE
Those that result from aging itself

Those that result from diseases, life style

during the past 25 years
 Improved sanitation

and nutrition
Effective control of
infectious disease

a 50% increase in the number of old people .

Living longer brings with it possibilities of enhanced health, happiness and productivity but also increasing frailty, chronic illness and diseases of older age such as dementia, diabetes and heart disease.

at birth, then childhood, school years, teenage years, work/professional years,

adult years of vocation/life choice (single, married, religious, priest/brother), retirement/elder years, and from there to death. In this theory, the developmental tasks of each period in one’s life is negotiated.

Care with paid nurse/ staff
Palliative care centres

Hospice
Home for the Aged
Charitable Homes
Assisted Living centres
Senior citizen’s colony
Day care centres
New Model

with long term illness
  Psychological problems
  Social

problems
  Spiritual problems

people above
65 years have
some kind of

disability

Cancer

Stroke

an approach that improves the quality of life of patients

and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems (WHO, 2005).

ill people. Hospice is a medically directed, interdisciplinary team-managed program

of services that focuses on the patient/family as the unit of care. Hospice care is palliative rather than curative, with an emphasis on pain and symptom control, so that a person may live the last days of life fully, with dignity and comfort, at home or in a home-like setting”.

THENEYUR UDAYKUMAR AKSHITH
LA2-CO- 161A