The aging process begins at the moment someone is born and continues. But at age sixty-five people very different from each other regarding how old their body looks, and how much they have changed. There are sixty-five olds that look like forty-five, and sixty-five year olds that look like eighty-five birthdays. These differences are due [...]
There have always been old people. It is known both as writings from ancient skeletal remains. Until relatively recently there were not too many old people. Diseases handles around him and took their toll, the medicine was primitive and the food was bad, so many people do not even middle age (aged between 40 and [...]
As the old saying goes: “You’re as young as you feel” there is a large element of truth. When people get older and they have no other serious diseases or other problems, “feel” they are like when they were young. Because the essence of a man is not changed, only his body is changing slowly. [...]
One of the worst changes that people at older ages to do to get it to give up their independence. Fortunately, not everyone does that. Research has shown that in the Netherlands about 97 percent of the elderly to live independently their five seventieth year. The elderly between 75 and 85 years living just over [...]
What is successful aging? This question has never been as important, because never before in history have so many people so old. Getting older does not mean going metpensioen or reaching a certain chronological age as 65 years. It is a process that lasts a lifetime. The people who know best are the ones that [...]
Denk niet dat u na uw 65ste invalide bent geworden. Kwalen en pijntjes horen erbij maar uw latere jaren kunnen de meest plezierige en werkzame van uw leven zijn. Probeer alles uit het leven te halen door zo goed mogelijk in conditie te blijven. Door regelmatig met mate aan lichaamsbeweging te doen kunt u gezonder [...]
Do you frequently lose your car keys or forgetting how you often leave with someone you have agreed? Lists are an indispensable on parts of your daily lives? The memory consists of three categories: Imprinting: a phone number look up and remember it long enough to run. Short-term memory: what you ate this morning or [...]
Signs and symptoms Effort to focus to see objects. Blurred vision in the central part of the visual field. Clouding of the image when you see one or both eyes. Double vision. Problems driving at night by glare from oncoming traffic. Like the other parts of the body are also the parents eyes. This means [...]
Typically, incontinence at any age due to an underlying disease or ailment, whether it is urine, faeces or both go. Older people are more likely to suffer incontinence than younger people. As you get older, working the muscles and ligaments that control urination and bowel movements become less effective and thus easier to work with [...]
There is a saying: “Once you’re on year, you begin to speed up”. Unfortunately, at least some exercise, it is rarely true. Muscles, tendons and joints generally lose some of their strength and adaptability, and the ‘power’ for the energy of the body creates, burns at a lower ebb. You do things not as fast [...]
Signs and symptoms Hard and sometimes painful bowel movements. Less frequent bowel movements. Problems to get rid of the stool. Many people speak of constipation when they are not at least once a day to the bathroom go. That is a wrong to mount. The normal pattern of bowel movements varies widely from person to [...]
Signs and symptoms Less sexual desire. Absence of sexual desire. Problems with sexual performance (such as impotence or painful intercourse). There was a time when sex after the age of 70 years simply did not exist, at least, it was a subject that was not negotiable. Today people are realizing that sex remains important throughout [...]
A person’s voice can change the characteristic sound. Three factors are causing a change in the sound of a voice and place that are a sore throat, throat cancer and stroke. Hoarseness is sometimes throat infection. But there is often no treatment is required for this to heal. If a person very hoarse after a [...]
Signs and symptoms Loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities. Gloomy or depressed. Poor appetite. Sleep disorders. Loss of energy, feeling tired. Sometimes people get depressed due to certain events such as the loss of a spouse or a close friend or through the course of a disease, a wrong turn. Also, some people [...]
You are born in a small body. There is nothing wrong, everything still works one hundred percent and everything is still tight. Over the years this gradually changed. You may notice nothing the first thirty or forty years, but then what can really change. Especially when you get older you have an obstacle on the [...]