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What is the major reason for tooth loss after the age of 30?
What is Periodontal Disease
As we age the heart muscle becomes less efficient and the contractile strength becomes weaker resulting in
What is reduced cardiac output
A weak cough reflex and decreased esophageal motility causes the elder to experience at risk for: o
What is aspiration risk?
Melanocytes cluster and cause.
What is age spots?
By the age of 80 statue decreases approximately 2 inches in height. Name the 3 age related changes that cause the elder to reduce height by 2 inches.
What is reduced hydration, loss of cartilage and thinning vertebrae.
The GI track system cannot absorb which vitamins well as one ages. Name the 5 vitamins.
What is Vitamin B, B12, D, Calcium, and Iron
Name the condition that increase the blood pressure as a normal age related change.
What is heart disease?
The respiratory system experiences decreased activity due to thick mucous and a rigid rib cage. This increase the risk of the aging to have:
What is pneumonia?.
Aging men and women request a sweater even in the summer due to normal aging changes. Name the change that occurs.
What is thinning skin and or less subcutaneous fat?
Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass, strength and function is mostly seen in people who are:
What is inactive?
Name where fluid is reduced in the cells as one ages.
What is intracellular fluid
The aging experience frequent visits to the bathroom. Name the normal age related change in urinary system that causes these frequent visits
What is frequent urination, decreased bladder capacity?
Mouth breathing contributes to
What is snoring?
The aging mean body temperatures ranges from?
What is 96.7-98.3?
Bone mineral and bone mass are reduced and cause the bones to become
What is bone becoming brittle or to be fractured.
Name the condition when an elderly person does not have sufficient amount of fluids.
What is Dehydration
Name what occurs in the cardiac system to the values of the heart.
What is thick and rigid?
Structural changes in the trachea and rib cage causes respiratory activity or lungs to experiences less ________.
What is expand?
A progressive loss of hearing is known as
What is Presbycusis?
Name two normal physical changes in appearance that occurs with aging.
What is gray hair, wrinkles, double chin, baggy eyelids, elongated ears?
As one age, a condition characterized by a decreased intensity of propulsive waves when one swallows is called
What is Presbyesophagus?
A condition that occurs in the urinary system that is not a normal age related change is:
What is urinary incontinence?
Slower response time is a normal age related change for which body system
What is neurovascular?
Name the condition that occurs in the 4th decade of life that causes the lens to experience an inability to focus or accommodate due to reduced elasticity of the lens.
What is Presbyopia?
Daily Double What two words describe the aging process?
What is natural and expected?