Longevity Assignment
Death is unavoidable; it will happen at some point in everyone's life. However, most people want to put off that event as long as possible. Unfortunately, we do not often behave in ways that will allow us to live for a long time. Northwestern Mutual Financial Network's Longevity Game predicts lifespan by considering a number of current health factors. According to this game, which considers biological, genetic, and behavioral factors, I am living a healthy lifestyle and will live to be eighty-nine years old.
Biological factors include my age, sex, height, weight, and blood pressure. Obviously, the higher my age is currently, the higher the age I am likely to achieve. As a woman, I am likely to live longer than a man as
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While blood pressure seems to be a repeat from the biological section, the game was asking for more than simple blood pressure numbers, but rather my knowledge of my blood pressure and the care I take. As I go to the doctor for preventative care checks and keep an eye on my blood pressure, I am more likely to live longer as issues will be noticed before they reach an emergency situation. Stress management can also impact life expectancy. Everyone has stressors in life; the way we manage them is what impacts our health. I do not currently manage stress well, although I am trying to change my thought processes because I would like my enjoyment of life to go up as well as my life expectancy. I exercise daily, which increases my longevity; if I wished to decrease later disability, I would exercise for longer and include strength building in my routines. My diet is about half and half processed foods and self prepared "real" foods, like fruits and vegetables, and I should change my eating behaviors. I always wear my seatbelt, which decreases the chance of death in an automobile accident, and I have had only one moving violation in the past three years. I drink less than once per week, never more two drinks, and I never drink and drive. I also do not dabble
“Each year, when hockey season starts, Mr. Allen walks a little faster, holds his chin a little higher, and smiles a little brighter.” A week into our season- Saturday, December 5th, 2015 – it was game day, we would be traveling to a school in Massachusetts. There was 17 of us on the team; 3 freshmen, 6 sophomores, 1 junior, 7 seniors. Majority of us were at the school because of the head coach, Ed Allen. He was the type of man you wanted to play for, work your hardest for, but more importantly he was the type of man you wanted to be around, to talk to, and to listen to the very few but wise words he said. His biggest thing was being relentless and being selfless; to have a what can I give, not a what can I get attitude.
When a teacher from Tryhard high school decides to voice her/he’s distaste about the success of the students from the previous year in mathematics, a few students decide to take matters into their own hand. Using the scores of the previous years they started to analyses the documents and see if the teacher was wrong.
Discuss the questions that would be important to include when interviewing a patient with this issue. The PQRST mnemonic guide can be used for a complete abdominal pain history is as follows: P3 – Positional, palliating, and provoking factors; Q – Quality; R3 – Region, radiation, referral; S – Severity; T3 – Temporal factors (time and mode of onset, progression, and previous episodes). This mnemonic will help to ensure a thorough history is obtained by asking question such as;
There are many environmental influences as well as human behaviors that contribute to one’s expected life span. Health and lifestyle are two major factors that play a role in determining what life would be like during the senior years of life. There are many advantages to having a strong social support network that consists of caregivers paid and unpaid. Seniors with this tend to live longer, remain independent and stay active in their later years. Citizens in today’s society are living longer due to technology, medications and an overall healthier lifestyle. Many reach the age of 100 but the maximum human life span is 120 years old. One’s personal data, career choices, environmental influences and amount of active interactions will determine how those of the older population will experience the aging process.
The following is a discussion of three distinct approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of major Depression. These approaches are person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy and reality therapy. Chosen from the list in the question above, these three are the most effective in the treatment of major depression. A case
Death is something that people are going to experience in their lifetime. Emanuel believes that “ After 75 we are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic” (3). Everything changes after a person turn 75, because a study by Eileen Crimmins from the University of Southern California shows that “as people age, there is a progressive erosion of physical functioning; from 1998 throughout 2006, the loss of functional mobility in the elderly has increased and Crimmins concludes that there was an increase in the life expectancy with disease and a decrease in the years without disease. The same is true for functioning loss, an increase in expected years unable to function” (Emanuel “Why I hope to die at 75” 5). Even if a person decides to live longer than 75 years old that person will experience lack of mobility
Death is an enigmatic phenomenon that mankind dances with. Experienced by everyone at some point or another, death weaves its way through our lives and presents to us the reality of its finality and the truth of the unknown. Consequently, death results in the natural need to mourn the loss of people passed on. For most aging adults, death becomes a more conspicuous matter to address than in earlier years. Some cope better than others with the inevitable nature of death, seeing it as the necessary conclusion to a long life, while others deny its approach and attempt to delay its occurrences as long as possible.
Have you ever thought about wanting to die early? Well for Ezekiel J Emanuel this is completely the case. In his paper he describes why he doesn’t really want to live past the age of 75 as well as the reasoning and the facts to why living past the age of 75 is detrimental to society as well not really a life at all. Ezekiel is a 60 year old oncologist as well as a bioethicist, so this gives him a bit more credibility as to whether or not he knows what he is talking about. In the article “Why I hope to die at 75” Ezekiel J Emanuel expresses his opinion on why he thinks humans life after 75 is not worth living.
Aging is an inevitable process where we as living beings grow old. Aging has some benefits and may bring some problems too. There is a great variety of researches done with different purposes which provide us with some information and statistics.
During the 19th and 20th century, a lot of people lived a really long life, some of them lived for one hundred, two hundred and even three hundred years. However, now in the 21st century, if a person lives for a hundred years, he is considered a living legend during these times. Moreover, the synthesis of new medications have also been researched but none of them work at all to increase a person's life expectancy. Do you want to live your life for a hundred years or even more? Although many new diseases have recently showed up, we can not blame those diseases. The choices we make affect the longevity of our lives.
Aging occurs in every species. Over time a change occurs on a cellular level in a person’s body, which causes degenerative effects on the brain, muscles, organs, bones, hormones, and DNA. In 1991, the book Evolutionary Biology of Aging, offered the following definition of aging: a persistent decline in the age-specific fitness components of an organism due to internal physiological deterioration.1 Aging affects the body physically and mentally. Many people dread getting older due to the numerous changes the body goes through. The geriatric population experiences many pains and is inflicted with various diseases. There are a few who are lucky enough to not get diagnosed with a life altering disease, such as Alzheimer’s, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, macular degeneration, or some form of cancer. Studies have shown that genetics play a vital role in the aging process.
On October 1, 2016 I took the real age test on https://www.sharecare.com/group/realage a website that asks various health and lifestyle questions in order to identify the true age of an individual. I tried my best to answer each question as honestly as possible and was informed that my real age was 33.7, which is 4.4 years younger than my chronological age. I must stay this made me feel good, but I was eager to know why I was not rated younger or older. As I reviewed my recommendations I was given an accurate guide of what I am currently doing that is keeping me young as well as areas I should improve on. In this short essay I will discuss the three thigs that I am currently doing which make me young and three items I must improve in order to improve my longevity. Additionally, I will address two behaviors, which I can change today in order to improve my wellbeing and thus my quality of life as well as possibly extend my stay on this earth.
As American society has evolved in the past 100 years and technology has increased and improved, so has the life expectancy for individuals. Currently, females can expect to live for 81 years on average, while males can expect to live for 75 years, giving an average life expectancy of 78.3 years (Santrock, 2013, p.536). According to Santrock (2013), “since 1900, improvements in medicine, nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle have increased our life expectancy an average of 30 additional years,” but another important factor is the decreasing infant mortality, allowing a larger population of people, including older adults (p.536). Making good choices in diet, regular exercise, avoiding drugs and alcohol, along with getting enough sleep and maintaining a low and healthy stress level can all increase life expectancy. Relationships, emotional well-being, and having purpose all also play an important role in determining how long an individual will live. As people are living longer, more ...
Technology in terms of medicine has also increased the life expectancy of the average person. With new technological advancements in surgeries, medicines and treatments the average life expectancy is still on the increase. A recent study shows that the average life span for 2004 of a United States Citizen is 77.4 years old. This has increased significantly from 1900 where the average lifespan for a male was 48.2 and for the female 51.5. Thanks to technology we can now live longer.
Do you dream of living a long, healthy life? Fortunately, it is much easier to achieve this dream today, in a world that is more technologically and medically advanced than ever before. Because of these favorable advances, the life expectancies in most countries have increased. It is not enough, however, to solely rely on technology and medicine to increase your life expectancy. In order to make your dream a reality, you need to take a few additional steps. To improve your chances of living a long life, you should eat and drink healthy, have a consistent sleep routine, be physically and mentally active, reduce causes of stress and depression, avoid and/or quit smoking, and abstain from overindulgence.