Social Interaction and Healthy Ageing Case study 2022

Running head: SOCIAL INTERACTION AND HEALTHY AGEING
SOCIAL INTERACTION AND HEALTHY AGEING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Introduction
Based on the case of Frederic it can be seen that he is a healthy old person with some
healthy habits and a large family as well. It has been found that he recently feels some joint
pains, stiffness and also his memory is going away from him as well. Hence, he has gone to a GP
who suggested him four practices which can help him in reducing the pain and also the healthy
living as well. These four practices include diet control (1800 Kcal/day) for losing 10 kg weight,
weight lifting activities with specialized supervisors, club joining for socialization and also take
120 mg Ginkgo biloba twice a day in order to improve his memory condition. However, Frederic
did not want to diet control and also afraid of injuries by weight lifting. He also asked for the
proof that all these practices can improve his mental and physical health. Hence, the GP provided
with 4 hour journal articles for based on the practices in accordance with the successful ageing.
In the following sections these articles will be used to reviewing the validity of the context.
Literature Review
According to Hodge et al. (2013), old age is a pending disability and death. This article is
developed for identifying the effectors of the successful ageing. The authors collected different
types of data on this context that includes baseline (1990-1994), demographic, anthropometric,
social connectedness, behavioural and also the health data are collected from
41,514menandwomenparticipants. However, only Australian, New Zealand and UK born people
are included in this study. This is a longitudinal and cohort study on the people over 70 years of
age including 5512 eligible participants. The result of this study highlighted that the absence of
diabetes, heart attack, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, angioplasty, stroke, cancer are the
factors that impacts over the successful ageing (Helbostad et al., 2017). It has also been found
that low risk of physical and psychological impairment would be the factors that help in

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successful ageing aspect for the elderly people. On this context it can be found that the social
connectedness has no direct connection on the process of the successful ageing however, it is a
perceived belief of people that the social connection helps in the hormonal balance in the body
and thus it actually helps in the process of the successful ageing that is the disease free prolonged
life. Hence, on this context it can be seen that the factor of the social connectedness basically
play no role in the process of the successful ageing. The factor of the diabetes, heart attack,
coronary artery bypass graft surgery, angioplasty, stroke, cancer are the factors that impacts over
the successful ageing and thus the social activities do not have any effective impact on the health
outcomes of the people with old age.
Han et al. (2015), highlighted that the factor of the perceived health status, depression,
self-esteem, self-achievement, ego-integrity, participation in leisure activities, and loneliness
have a great impact over healthy aging. On this context the authors have taken 171 Korean adults
who are aged between 45 to 70 years. The study was conducted with the help of the self-
reporting questionnaire and also the factor of the descriptive statistics, multi regressions and
inferential statistical analysis was used for the result development as well. The results
highlighted that there are significant differences between the general characteristics of the
sample population regarding the successful ageing and these characters include age, education,
religion, housing, hobby and economic status. It has also been found that the depression and also
the loneliness have a significant negative impact over the successful ageing (McPhee et al.,
2015). Depression, leisure activities, perceived health status, ego integrity and self-achievements
are the factors that can be able to influence the healthy ageing aspect in 51.9 percent cases.
Hence, based on these findings the depression is the most effective aspect in influencing the
healthy ageing or the successful ageing factor. On the basis of this research finding and the study