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Destine indicators for mounting life expectancy of senior citizens

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  Inner catchphrase of writer : “Stopping your dreams, desires will sluggishly dump you to death well. To catch your life, blossom new flowers in mind, cultivate your ambitions through chasing superpower that is embedded in every human cell”. Older adults usually consume depressive energies and think that they are walking on the dark, scary road turning to a cloudy zone. In revolutionary cutting-edge technical cosmos, human survival traits have been transformed.   Longevity is an upshot of various lifestyle influences counting genetics, routine choices, healthcare management, hygienic environment and fiscal status.  In the present progressive era, life expectancy for aged folks revealed astonishing facts. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon that humans cannot scuffle with their destiny. This dogma can be modified in a technical led environment. Numerous factors are responsible for increasing or declining the graph of life expectancy in older people. Though people gripped wi...

Walking safeguards for aged people

Aging is the period in which people should invest dynamism and time on self. Elderly can be energetic when they keep themselves mentally and physically fit. Walking is the simplest and best way to boost your persona in later stages of life. Walking is a good physical exercise for aged people to enhance abilities. But senior citizens have to follow some guidelines to avoid any serious outcomes. Before walking, people must warm up themselves so that physiological parameters such as blood pressure, pulse should be stable. Senior citizens have to wear suitable walk dresses in order to go for a free walk. Slightly loose clothes are good for walking exercise. Most importantly, shoes should be comfortable while walking. When planning to go for a walk, aged people must be well hydrated. This will keep them physically energetic and do not feel thirsty during a walk. It is highly recommended to keep some juicy toffee or candy to maintain energy when going for long walks. It is wise to scan...

Aging is just a shadowy thought

Aging is the outcome of DNA composition in humans and they endeavor to overcome various issues in life to maintain their mental rhythm. In humans, drastic changes can take place as they age due to the natural process of physical degeneration. Such transformations cannot be intimidating if people maintain their physical persona through diet, exercise and healthy lifestyle. Aging dominates as a result of mental fallacy about self. Individuals who are mentally engaged in certain tasks may gain cognitive strength such as strong memory, good thinking and remembering skills, understanding, wise decision-making power and concentration on performing various actions. People may involve themselves in playing video games, spend good time reading entertaining or literary books and magazines. To kill the thought of aging, some people develop new hobbies or fulfill their young age goals at later age of life.  Music is a wonderful option to turn a boring period into an exhilarating moment in li...

Care for elderly people

  There is rapid growth of aging population in most of the society and they need quality mental health. Elderly people face numerous challenges due to the physical and cognitive limitations. Providing counselling to aging people is not to control instead to empower them to fight with mental ailments. The primary objective of counselling is to involve seniors in a process whereby they can be helped. Several counselling techniques seeks to allow them express their feelings about their lives without any attempt to impose the counsellor’s own ideas and views.   Elderly people seek advice of primary care physician first when they experience psychological problems like anxiety, depression. Elderly clients may complaint about sleep disturbance, headaches, loss of appetite, or weight change. Counsellors will comprehend their problems and prepare case report to what extent client symptoms are due to psychological factors and biochemical disturbance.   The general psychologic...

Shining career after sixty

At elderly age, many people think that their career is in downward trend or all finished. This thought is not encouraged as numerous opportunities are waiting at the age of sixty when person is retired or retiring from their professional job if they are willing to retain their professionalism. Earlier, the source of income for older adults were savings, pensions, and Social Security. After sixty years of age, majority of people want to revolutionize their life as they had monotony with same routine in their job. After retirement, professionals normally do not accept their rejection of job and entice to continue their job in different stream. Many of retired people still look for attractive job to manage their finance. Still there is other group of people who want to make strong special network through continuing their professional career. In elderly age, professionals are more inclined for the task that require great skill and knowledge. For older group, there are array of...

Unnoticed malnutrition in elderly people

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Undernourishment in older people over the age of 65 is sometimes ignored which can lead to major elderly health problems like deterioration of immune system and muscle feebleness. The causes of malnutrition can originate from other health issues such as suffering from dementia, depression, alcoholism, dietary restraints, inactiveness in social circle and limited income. It is a general consensus that nutritional deficiencies are a foreseeable consequence of aging. Malnutrition in elderly people is often due to inadequate food intake, food choices that lead to dietary deficiencies, and disease that causes increased nutrient requirements, poor nutrient absorption, or a blend of these factors. It is well observed that poor oral health and dental problems can lead to difficulty chewing, inflammation, and a repetitive diet that is tasteless upsurge the risk of malnutrition. Gradual loss of vision and hearing may restrict movement and consequently, it affects in preparing meals a...

Reverse aging tips for people entering to middle age

Time is a major factor in human life that enables them to keeps on changing and step up from one stage to another in lifecycle that is jumping from children into young adults and evolving from parents into old grandparents. At the dusk of lifecycle, many people embrace aging as wonderful and exhilarating facade while for others, it may develop anxious feeling about health deterioration, loss of earning or fear of death. It is a pleasant sound echoed by many scientist that aging can be arrested or controlled through changing lifestyle along with positive attitude. Though we cannot step back in our life physically but we can reprogram it through our life experiences, immense explorations and past events. Besides healthy attitude towards life, diet, exercise and proper sleep help in slowing down the aging process. Wrinkles and sagging skin is the first major sign of aging process. It can be reversed through taking proper balanced diet and include seasonal fruits, and veget...

Senior citizen: Value addition for youngsters

Youngsters are well aware of the proven truth that elderly people are asset and highly important for them to guide the path of success and offer constructive solutions to intricate health and social issues of life. Senior citizens are considered as a rich source of knowledge, have patience to tolerate ups and down of life and they have huge experience to handle the challenging situations of life. Still youths sometime ignore senior citizens and confined to their factions to enjoy and lead their professional and personal life. My dialogue at this junction is to elaborate how senior citizens can go parallel with youngsters group and enhance their living surprisingly. In many families, elderly people are overlooked especially in Indian societies when they invest all their funds to enhance the living of their children but they get worse life. It is heard many times that elderly people are not attended by their children even in their worst phase of illness due to greed of mo...