Positive Aging

Positive Aging

What Is Aging

Changing Aging

What Is Aging?

What age do you consider “old”?

How will you know when you are “old”?

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

Well-derlyDale Anderson, MD

What Is Aging?

Changes in physiology Changes in health

Changes in lifestyle

What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology– Cellular

What Is Aging?

• Changes in physiology– Cellular– Tissue/Physical

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

Changes in physiology Cellular Tissue/Physical Function

What Is Aging?

Changes in health Overall fitness

What Is Aging?

Changes in health Overall fitness Disease and chronic disease

What Is Aging?

Changes in health Overall fitness Disease and chronic disease Disability

What Is Aging?

Changes in health Overall fitness Disease and chronic disease Disability Cognition

What Is Aging?

Changes in health Overall fitness Disease and chronic disease Disability Cognition

Dementia

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

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

What Is Aging?

Changes in LifestyleGetting around

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

What Is Aging?

Changes in Lifestyle Getting around Living arrangements

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

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)

How Long Will I Live?

Life expectancy keeps increasing—is there an end in sight?

48.3

46.3

80.2

75.1

AGE YEAR

U.S. Life Expectancy

1900-2006

How Long Will I Live?

How Long Will I Live?

Life expectancy keeps increasing—is there an end in sight?

How old will you get?

How Long Will I Live?

http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/VirtualAge.php

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/calcs/n_expect/main.asp

Life Expectancy Calculators

Changing Aging

Active Engagement Does Rocking in a Rocking Chair Count

as Exercise?

Let’s Party!

Stay Positive

Variety Is the Spice of Life

Changing Aging

Active Engagement

Changing Aging

Physical Well-Being

Nutrition - We are what we eat

Changing Aging

Physical Well-Being

Nutrition - We are what we eat

Weight - On our bodies and on our minds

Obesity in the U.S.

BMI

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

Changing Aging

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

Aerobic Exercise

Leisure Activity by Age & Gender

CDC

2007

Growing Old is Not for Sissies

Leisure Activity

CDC

http://agingisnotforssies.org/index.htm

Changing Aging

Social Well-Being

Building Social Capital Multigenerational activities

Changing Aging

Social Well-Being

Building Social Capital Multigenerational activities Working

Changing Aging

Changing Aging

Changing Aging

Social Well-Being

Building Social Capital Multigenerational activities Working Volunteering

Changing Aging

Changing Aging

Stay PositiveHappiness

Stay Positive

Happiness is Contagious

Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338

Happiness clusters in the Framingham social network

Fowler J H , Christakis N A BMJ 2008;337:bmj.a2338

Changing Aging

Stay PositiveHappiness

Laughter

Laughter

Laughter YogaDr. Madan Kataria

YouTube - Laughter Yoga Steps.mp4

Changing Aging

Variety Is the Spice of Life Thinking Dreaming Doing

Positive Aging

Are you over the hill or gaining momentum?

What can you do to influence your own positive aging?