viernes, 29 de marzo de 2013

The aging

According to World Health Organization (WHO) the aging is a "Physiologic procces that begin at conception and causes characteristic changes in the specie during all its life. When we are old, this changes produce a limited adaptability of the organism in relation to its environment. The times at which these changes happen in the differents organs of the same individual or different individuals are not the sames"

In this physiologic procces which is natural, we can observe many normal changes in the body´s physical structure and function during the aging process. In addition there are also changes that indicate the onset of desease or illnes as WHO says. Knowing that, nurses have to know the difference between this physiologic changes and abnormal changes that signify aneed for medical or nursing intervention. Although most older adults experience one or more chronic problems like arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, cencer heart disease etc. 
The five leading causes of death among older adults are:
TOP 5
1
Heart disease
2
Cancer
3
Cardiovascular disease
4
Pneumonia
5
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)







All things considered, we can observe that the costs of health care have increased dramatically in recent years due to life expectancy has increased, of course, there are other elements  that increase the cost but they are not so strinkin. For this reasons, I think that is necessary to change the health care model because it is untenable. From my point of view we should spend more money on prevention activities since ultimately it will be the best solution. There were more healty people and the health will be cheaper. For example if we warn the high blood pressure of a man,   he won´t have to take pills and will not have to spend so much money on drugs.

Bibliography

Definition of an older or elderly person. World Health Organization; 2012. Available in: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/survey/ageingdefnolder/en/


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