Positive Aging

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Positive Aging
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Positive Aging

• What Is Aging
• Changing Aging

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What Is Aging?

• What age do you consider old?
• How will you know when you are old?

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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?

• Well-derly
• Dale Anderson, MD

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology
• Changes in health
• Changes in lifestyle

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology
• Cellular

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology
• Cellular
• Tissue/Physical

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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology
• Cellular
• Tissue/Physical
• Function

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness
• Disease and chronic disease

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness
• Disease and chronic disease
• Disability

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness
• Disease and chronic disease
• Disability
• Cognition

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness
• Disease and chronic disease
• Disability
• Cognition
• Dementia

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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?

• Changes in health
• Overall fitness
• Disease and chronic disease
• Disability
• Cognition
• Musculo-skeletal

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What Is Aging?

• Changes in Lifestyle
• Getting around

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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?
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What Is Aging?

• Changes in Lifestyle
• Getting around
• Living arrangements

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What Is Aging?

• Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
• Doing light housework
• Preparing meals
• Taking medications
• Shopping for groceries or clothes
• Using the telephone
• Managing money
• Using technology

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What Is Aging?

• Activities of Daily Living
• Personal hygiene
• Dressing and undressing
• Eating
• Transferring from bed to chair, and back
• Voluntarily controlling urinary and fecal
  discharge
• Elimination
• Moving around (as opposed to being bedridden)

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How Long Will I Live?

• Life expectancy keeps increasingis there an end
  in sight?

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How Long Will I Live?
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U.S. Life Expectancy 1900-2006
AGE
YEAR
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How Long Will I Live?

• Life expectancy keeps increasingis there an end
  in sight?
• How old will you get?

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How Long Will I Live?
Life Expectancy Calculators

• http//gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/Cal
  cForm.html
• http//www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php
• http//moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expec
  t/main.asp

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Changing Aging

• Active Engagement
• Does Rocking in a Rocking Chair Count as
  Exercise?
• Lets Party!
• Stay Positive
• Variety Is the Spice of Life

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Changing Aging

• Active Engagement

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Changing Aging

• Physical Well-Being
• Nutrition - We are what we eat

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Changing Aging

• Physical Well-Being
• Nutrition - We are what we eat
• Weight - On our bodies and on our minds

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Obesity in the U.S.
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BMI
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Changing Aging

• Physical Well-Being
• Nutrition - We are what we eat
• Weight - On our bodies and on our minds
• Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much

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Changing Aging
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Changing Aging

• Physical Well-Being
• Nutrition - We are what we eat
• Weight - On our bodies and on our minds
• Alcohol and tobacco - How much is too much
• Exercise - In or out of the rocking chair

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Aerobic Exercise
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Leisure Activity by Age Gender
2007
CDC
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Growing Old is Not for Sissies
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Leisure Activity
CDC
http//agingisnotforssies.org/index.htm
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Changing Aging

• Social Well-Being
• Building Social Capital
• Multigenerational activities

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Changing Aging

• Social Well-Being
• Building Social Capital
• Multigenerational activities
• Working

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Changing Aging
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Changing Aging
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Changing Aging

• Social Well-Being
• Building Social Capital
• Multigenerational activities
• Working
• Volunteering

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Changing Aging
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Changing Aging

• Stay Positive
• Happiness

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Stay Positive
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Happiness is Contagious
Happiness clusters in the Framingham social
network
Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008337bmj.a2338
Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008337bmj.a2338
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Changing Aging

• Stay Positive
• Happiness
• Laughter

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Laughter

• Laughter Yoga
• Dr. Madan Kataria

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Changing Aging

• Variety Is the Spice of Life
• Thinking
• Dreaming
• Doing

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Positive Aging

• Are you over the hill or gaining momentum?
• What can you do to influence your own positive
  aging?