Assignment task:
YouTube Video: The Science of Healthy Aging: Six Keys to a Long, Healthy Life
From the video
Q1. What are five key points that can be utilized from this video?
Q2. How would you encourage an aging client to take advantage of some of the practices mentioned in the video?
Q3. According to chapter 2 in your book how should a hesitancy by an older client to commit to health activities and plans be seen by the social worker?
Q4. What issues should the social worker be SENSITIVE to when working with an older adult? Why?
Q5. Define free radical and describe how they affect the body.
Q6. What is the body's immune system responsible for?
Q7. Between the ages of __________, the process in which skin cells are replaced as a normal part of the body's maintenance process slows by _____%.
Q8. What happens with the neurotransmitters in the brain as the person gets older?
Q9. Explain what happens to the person when these changes take place.
Q10. What is OSA and how does it impact a person?
Q11. Define Stroke. What does a stroke do to the body?
Q12. Define Parkinson's disease.
Q13. Define Coronary artery disease.
Q14. What is hypertension and is it restricted to older adults?