Taking a Look at Progeria

Infirmed aging is having a condition of weakness or illness that usually lasts for a long time and is caused especially by old age. Progeria is the severe disease of the infirmed aging branch and is defined as a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life. Progeria only affects one in eight million people in the world. The term Progeria is gathered from the Greek word geras, meaning old age. Children with progeria usually don’t show any signs when they are birthed but in a year or so their growth rate starts to slow down. Children who are affected by progeria develop a non-identical appearance characterized by baldness, a small pinched nose, and a small face and jaw relative to head size and aged-looking skin. They also often have symptoms typically seen in much older people including joint stiffness, hip dislocations and severe, progressive cardiovascular disease. It is normal for them to be smart. People with this disease averagely lives to see at most 13 years of age but it ranges from age 8 to 21; and most patients die from either a stroke or a heart attack. Progeria is caused by mutations in the LMNA gene, but almost always results from a new mutation rather than being inherited from a parent. A couple of affects that patients who struggle with this disease has is rapid fatigue, fragile body structure, their bones are weak, they lose their body fat and also their hair, their skin starts to look aged, their joints get stiff and like I said early they have problems with hip dislocation. These patients can normally move around but they can only move for a certain amount of time before they become short of breath. Fatigue sets in for these patients and limits any e...

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...ely to get to affect the brain than a younger person. There are so many elderly adults in the world that knows so much, because they are wise. They learn from what they have been through and where they want to go. Growing wiser is a good thing about getting older.

Infirmed aging can be a difficult task to try to move forward in life with but at the end of the day people who has such problems as Progeria and Benjamin Button disease are glad to just be alive. Even though there is no cure for any of these diseases the patients who has these diseases are still very intelligent and normal just like everyone else. As life progresses on, everyone gets older by the year and as people get older some things start to change. People start to depend on the help from others because they can’t due the things they use to do because their bones are weak and they are too brittle.