What are the physical effects of illnesses during ageing?
Illness may make the body less able to fight infection, reduce stamina, result in lost mobility, cause pain and discomfort, impact on the senses, making them less sharp, and affect vision and cause dizziness that could lead to falls.
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What are the intellectual effects of illness during ageing?
Illness may cause short-term memory loss, affect dedecision-making skills, slow the ability to respond and react to information, and cause difficulty in verbal communication.
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What are the social effects of illness during ageing?
Illness may reduce the opportunity and ability to socialise with friends, impact on senses or neural capacity, making socialising difficult, and affect ability to communicate in groups.
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What are the emotional effects of illness during ageing?
Illness may cause emotional distress e.g. incontinence or communication difficulties, result in dependance on others for personal care, cause feelings of lack of control, bring families closer together, and result in low self-esteem.
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What is the importance of a healthy diet?
It provides additional nutrients needed to reduce a decline in health. It also maintains a healthy weight to reduce stress on the heart and other organs.
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What is the importance of exercise?
Exercise keeps the joints mobile, keeps the heart healthy and maintains muscle and strength.
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What is the importance of drugs?
Medication that is prescribed correctly should control illness and not make it worse, Not smoking reduces the impact of age-related disease. however, taking recreational grugs acn negatively affect intellectual development and mood.
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Illness may cause short-term memory loss, affect dedecision-making skills, slow the ability to respond and react to information, and cause difficulty in verbal communication.
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