Ageing and Pastoral Care Graduation Certificate

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Ageing and Pastoral Care Graduation Certificate
Ageing and Wellness

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................2
Concepts of Health and Wellness in Ageing...........................................................................2
Dementia and its Pathology....................................................................................................5
Symptoms of Dementia..........................................................................................................5
Dementia stages......................................................................................................................6
Dementia types.......................................................................................................................7
Dementia causes.....................................................................................................................7
Diagnosing dementia..............................................................................................................8
Treatment of Dementia..........................................................................................................9
Challenges in Dementia.........................................................................................................10
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................10
References.............................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
The ageing concept was founded by Rowe and Kahn in 1987 and 1997 respectively. This
concept suggests that the elderly people can age in a successful way if they ignore diseases and
disability and try to manage high cognitive and physical functioning (McMahon, 2012). Also,
they should be able to remain very active in life. To understand the perception of wellness in
ageing adults is actually a question which is to be understood going against the concerns about
the global ageing and the bulge of ageing boomers will rise up cost of health care which will pass
the limit of the modern economies capability to deal with such costs. The adults that age in the
healthy way and those who take complete responsibility for self-health offers the assertive option
and could also modify the perception that people who are aged are burden on society (WHO,
2011).
Concepts of Health and Wellness in Ageing
There are few authors who actually have attempted in defining and filtering out the
important concepts that surrounds with the meaning of the wellness. It is also debated that
wellness is always prejudiced, and naturally has the value verdict about what it actually is and
what it actually is not. The apt description and quantity of the construct is very hard as claimed
by Kelly and Sarason in the year 2000. Hence, the authors conceptualized this term “wellness”
on the continuum and not as the end state (Foottit, 2009).
According to Jonas (2005), the elaboration on the difference between the health and
wellness was done by claiming or specifying that health is actually a state of being while at the
same time wellness is actually a procedure of life form. Wellness is defined as the way of life
and living in which a person always explores, searches, finds a new question or set of questions
and always incept the new answers with the three major and most important dimensions of
living. These are physical, mental and the social dimensions. These dimensions are a way of life
which is designed for enabling each person to achieve good health and wellness. In every

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dimension founded, there is maximum capability or potential that is realistically and rationally
possible for people in their lives (Geog, 2018).
To understand the concept of health and wellness, one needs to understand the
dimensions of health and wellness. There are several dimensions with the help of which one can
understand this concept. They are:
Physical Wellness: In general terms, physical wellness includes the physical activity, diet,
caring for self and consists of the active actions to take care of oneself and self’s body. Cooper
studied the relation of exercise with health and longevity, especially the way the exercise
decreases the risk of the heart diseases (Swabrick, 2018). His implications revolutionized the
industry of fitness by understanding about the health and wellness that involves the maintenance
of heart fitness, flexibility of the body and internal strength. There can be few actions that can be
done to improve the physical health and that involves taking the diet which is healthy and make
the body tune with the diet one intakes to see how the body responds, releasing of stress from life
and by monitoring the emotions internally as well as externally to observe the signs of the body.
It also involves taking the apt medical care whenever needed for preventing the harmful
behaviors.
Emotional or psychological Wellness: There have been very few debates and discussions
on this dimension but there is an agreement that it is a sense of expectation of the own self that
optimistic results comes from the actions and the knowledge of life. Wellness related to emotions
is conceptualized as the consciousness and be in charge of the thoughts and also realistic,
optimistic and the developmental view of oneself, conflict, the circumstances of the life and
maintaining the relations completely with others. According to Hettler (1980), the emotional
wellness is a continuous process that involves a consciousness and the maintenance of the
thoughts, optimistic vision about oneself, world and also of the relatives (Strout, Five
Dimensions of Wellness and Predictors of Cognitive Health Protection in Community-Dwelling
Older Adults, 2014).
Social Wellness: This wellness dimension includes the degree of the interactions with
other people, the society and the environment. It also involves the extent to which the people