Demography Of Aging Case Study

Mr. John Doe is a close acquaintance of mine who was more than happy to sit down and let me interview him for this assignment. He is a 72 year old male, born 09/08/1942. He does consider himself a baby boomer. Even though as discussed in chapter 4, Demography of Aging, Baby Boomer were to have been between the years 1946 and 1964. He is a widower with four children, one boy and three girls. His son lives in Utah. One of his daughters is moving from New York City to Florida because her husband was stationed there. Another daughter lives about an hour and a half from where he lives. He is currently living with the last daughter and his son-in-law. He has thirteen grandchildren, seven boys and six girls. He is a retired engineer who went to college

When asked why he never finished he stated, “I don’t know why I didn’t finished, it was too long ago”. He currently lives in a large house with one of his daughters and son-in-law. If they were not living with him he says that “I would live in a smaller house”, where he feels like he could take care of himself and be able to take care of duties in and outside of the house. Most people experience physical and cognitive changes, as they grow older. As John Doe has gotten older his height and weight he says has stayed about the same throughout his life. He is 5’10 tall and weighs 175lbs. He has not gotten shorter or gained body mass as most elderly people do. As stated in Chapter 3, Physical Aging. His sleep patterns have changed a little. He gets about eight hours of sleep each night, sometimes more. Quite often though, half way through his night, he does have to wake up to go to the bathroom. As stated in Chapter 3, Physical Aging, the bladder function declines with age. The capacity of the bladder to hold urine may decrease by as much as 50%. There is a diminished ability to retain urine and loss of bladder control. At age 69 he started to take naps almost

He has COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease that he takes two different inhalants for. He also has prostate cancer which he takes Vitamin D supplements and a shot every six months for. As stated in Chapter 3, Physical Aging, there are respiratory changes. The maximum amount of oxygen that can be brought into the lungs with a deep breath declines as we age among other things. He stated that reflecting back on his aging experience, if he could give advice to his younger self, he would tell himself, “Don’t smoke”. Fortunately, over the years he said he has not experienced any age discrimination or negative attitudes or comments about his age. He said that with his age he has had positive experiences such as, gaining senior citizen