AGING

MULTIDIMENSIONAL PROCESS INVOLVING

ACCUMILATION OF PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL

AND SOCIAL CHANGES IN A PERSON OVER TIME

GERONTOLOGY
AND
GERIATRICS
 DEMOGRAPHICS

• OLDER ADULT POPULATION TRIPLED FROM 1900

• LARGEST CAUSE OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY

• 2/3 DEATHS PER DAY AND 90% OF DEATHS DAILY

IN INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS

• PEAK OF POPULATION EXPECTED BY 2030 DUE TO

BABY BOOM GENERATION
 TYPES OF AGING
• CHRONOLOGICAL AGING
- YOUNG OLD (65 – 74)
- MIDDLE OLD (75 – 84)
- OLD OLD (85 AND ABOVE)
• SOCIAL AGING
• PHYSIOLOGIC/ BIOLOGIC AGING
• PROBABILISTIC AGING
MYTHS ABOUT AGING
• MOST OLDER PEOPLE ARE DEMENTED
• MOST OLDER PEOPLE FEEL MISERABLE AND
DEPRESSED
• OLDER PEOPLE CAN’T WORK EFFECTIVELY LIKE
YOUNGER ONES
• THEY CAN’T LEARN COMPLEX NEW SKILLS
• THEY HAVE DECLINE IN INTELLECTUAL ABILITY
• MOST OLDER PEOPLE ARE SICK AND NEED
HELP WITH DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES
• THEY ARE SET IN THEIR WAYS AND CAN’T
CHANGE
 FEATURES OF AGING

• DELETERIOUS

• PROGRESSIVE

• INTRINSIC

• UNIVERSAL
THEORIES OF AGEING
 THEORIES
• BIOLOGIC THEORIES

• GENETIC (HEREDITARY)

• NON GENETIC (WEAR AND TEAR)

• PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORIES
• BIOLOGIC THEORIES :

- EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

- TELOMERE THEORY

- AUTOIMMUNE THEORY

- NEUROENDOCRINE CONTROL THEORY

(AGING CLOCK THEORY)

• PSYCHO SOCIALTHEORIES :

- DISENGAGEMENT THEORY

- ACTIVITY THEORY

- SELECTIVITY THEORY

- CONTINUITY THEORY
• GENETIC THEORIES :

- ERROR & FIDELITY THEORY

- SOMATIC MUTATION THEORY

- GLYCATION THEORY

- PROGRAMMED CELLULAR AGING THEORY

- AGING PACEMAKER THEORY

- ACCUMILATIVE WASTE THEORY

- FREE RADICAL THEORY

• NON GENETIC THEORIES :

- EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE THEORY

- NUTRIENT DEPRIVATION THEORY

- WEAR AND TEAR THEORY