Senior's Health Center: Healthy Aging for Older Adults

Today most of us can live longer, better lives because of the many new medicines that keep jumpy hearts in line, arteries unclogged, aging bones from breaking, and eyesight from diminishing....Along with better nutrition and low cholesterol, low salt diets, the development of drugs that help us as we age has reduced death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and suicides significantly in the past few decades. But medications used by any aging person are truly the proverbial double-edged sword, since as many as 80 percent of the elderly are on confusing multiple-drug regimens. Indeed, some studies show that less than 30 percent of the aged use their drugs properly.
What Do We Mean By Aging? Aging isn't just "getting old." It's a process that involves biological, emotional, social, and even financial changes that affect a person's overall health. Disease and mental attitude are the wild cards that affect the speed of the aging process...more
How Does Aging Affect Medication Use? The drugs used by the elderly are the same as those that a younger person might take--yet they can have a far different effect...more
Aging, Mental Health and Medications Among the first signs that a drug may not be working properly in an older person is a change in mood, energy, attitude, or memory. Too often, these alterations are overlooked, ignored, or chalked off to "old age" or senility. more


Common Conditions:
Alzheimer's Arthritis Breast Cancer Cardiac Disease Cancer Depression Diabetes	High Blood Pressure High Cholesterol Kidney Disease Liver Disease Respiratory Problems Urological Conditions


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Links to other Resources:
CDC Health Information for Older Adults
NIH Senior Health
National Institute on Aging

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