Factors Affecting Health and Lifestyle Quality of Elderly People

Being healthy in the modern
world

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Factors having direct influence on health of old people..................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Health and ageing are two processes in a human being that progress simultaneously and
results in a lot of changes in the body which can be treated if diagnosed on time. The risk of
health complications increases with increase in age of a person as the elderly people have a weak
immune system, and they are more prone to different health related problems like cataract, chest
pain, diabetes, arthritis etc. which are caused due to various health related factors like sleep
disturbance, obesity, social isolation, as well as depression and chronic diseases (Afolalu,
Ramlee and Tang, 2018). All these factors directly affect the life expectancy of the elderly
people and results in health deterioration of people. This essay will illustrate about the factors
affecting the health and lifestyle quality of elderly people and will identify the appropriate
solutions that are required to improve the health quality and overcome the factors that have direct
role in affecting the mental and physical health of old people.
Factors having direct influence on health of old people
Maintaining a good health and remaining healthy is the main priority of elderly people so
that there immunity remains strong, and they are less prone to various health related risks like
chronic chest pain, heart attacks, osteoporosis and diabetes which results in premature death of
elderly people. In order to maintain society sustainability it is very important to maintain proper
healthy and hygienic environment around the old people. This will result in increasing life
expectancy and will further help to reduce health risks.
There are various age related factors which weakens the immune system of old people making
them more vulnerable to various heart diseases and continuously decrease life expectancy.
Mobility limitation
With increase in proportion of older people above the 80 years of age along with
deterioration in health is leading to mobility limitation (Appel et.al., 2020). Old people live in
private households and tend to spend more time inside homes as a result of this they are confined
to move in limited spaces and interact with restricted environment only. This results in rise in
many health risks like fragility of bones increases, less movement in muscular system and leads
to obesity which can result in increase heart problems. Many problems like muscle weakness,
inappropriate body posture are caused due to complete immobility which results in increasing the
chances of falling and other accidents like femur fractures leading to long term hospitalization