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Late Adulthood

Late Adulthood

I am visiting my friend’s grandmother. She is 67 and acts like she is I her early 50’s. She gave u her nursing career two years ago. She was a volunteer in a grammar school also. She sues to run track, and still stays very active. But now since she’s older things are a little bit more difficult.
I didn’t notice that she was 67; she looked as if she was in her late 50’s. She is a young-old elder. She is physically young and fit for her age. Of course since she is older more organs and systems of the body are affected. She said that cold and hot weather feel more uncomfortable than when she was younger. She said she had less of her balance and needed more time to coordinate a series of movements. Since the brain weight declines and there is a death rate of neurons and enlargement of ventricles occur. There is neuron loss throughout the cerebral cortex, but not at all parts of the brain. As much as 50 percent of visual, auditory, and mot...

Posted by: Janet Valerio

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