Common Ailments Coming With Age

With age comes a battery of health issues. Nevertheless, if adequate care of the body is taken from the offset, then these health problems can be staved off for the time being. Aging is an ineludible phenomenon, and few factors that determine the longevity of a body include lifestyle, diet, genes and environment as well.  Caregivers at home for the aged ensure proper caring for the elderly.  The body starts to decline as it reaches the sunset years. Some ills that are found in every crook of old age are listed below.

Alzheimer’s disease

The disease is chronic as well as incurable and found in people who are above 65 years of age. The Alzheimer’s disease is rated as a common form of dementia, having close to three million sufferers all around the globe.

Eye diseases

Another problem that chivvies senior citizens has been eye diseases that creep with age. Two of the common eye diseases have been Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and cataract. Cataract can be cured via topical treatment or surgery.

Depression

Isolation, changes in lifestyle, loss of loved ones, and the like cause depression for oldsters. Further, depression can lead to lethargy, fatigue, impairment and many other physical problems.

Prostate Enlargement

The swelling of prostate gland is commonly found in aged males. The condition causes irritation and burning sensation while passing urine. Also, the flow of urine might appear to be sporadic. The condition, if not cured within a time period, can lead to acute urinary infection, bladder or kidney damage, urinary tract infection, etc.

Diabetes

The condition is metabolic in nature and found in people having high blood sugar level. The people who have diabetes either do not produce insulin or stop responding to it. The disease is incurable, but it can be checked with a change in diet and lifestyle as well.

These are few of the many ailments and conditions that affect an oldster’s lifestyle.

Can Old Age Be Enjoyable?

A relaxed senior resident is one who has planned everything. Planning is necessary not only in terms of funds, but health also. Few key points are listed that help one make the most of old age ahead. Planning of old age helps in welcoming the remaining life with open hands. Nowadays, the concept of old age homes has gained prominence. The paid old age homes in Delhi promise the elderly to enjoy a respectable life during the twilight years. With the rise in the greying population, many senior citizen homes in Delhi have been established.

Financial security

Old age will be a happy phase if the elderly is not financially dependent on someone else. Therefore, it is wise to save for future from a young age itself. During young age, nobody finds it imperative to save for future. Such recklessness becomes the primary reason for people being dependent on someone else for their everyday needs during old age.

Take care of health

Being healthy should be the top priority on everyone’s to-do list. People should introduce regular exercises in their daily schedule from a young age itself. The exercising helps body become energetic even at old age. Old age should never be an excuse for a lackadaisical lifestyle. It is advisable that the oldsters should be an early riser and do brisk walking. Obesity is the last thing, which old residents want to be accompanied with during old age.

Communicate with friends

Interacting with friends during old age is believed to be a great stress reliever. An old resident should visit his/her friend’s home and, similarly, invite them over. Such interactions help in reliving old memories and finding solutions to some mutual old age problems. 

Keep a check on diet

A diet rich in minerals, vitamins, iron and calcium must be consumed by the oldster. The elderly should avoid eating oily stuff or food that has high fat and carbohydrate levels. Green leafy vegetables and fruits make a great part of a senior resident’s daily diet.   

Such factors should be harboured for sustaining the essence of life even during the final act of life.

Reasons to settle for Old age homes - Problems elderly face at their homes

Victor Hugo once said, “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age”. But of late, this dawn has started to see a little dimness. Let’s see what they are: 


1.Proper Care
Unlike ever before, our age has been witnessing an abrupt rise in the idea of nuclear family system. Nowadays, a senior communities has just one or two children, who also leave home as soon as they grow old, for their education or for work. Due to this, the parents are left alone at home, devoid of their children who are supposed to take their care at this age. 

2.Assistance with personal tasks

As you grow old, you not only start losing your sight and might, but also add to your ability of dependency on others, though against will. And because of your lonesomeness, you may not even find anyone for help.

3.Food service

Who doesn’t want a good life? Who doesn’t like to have nice food and toil for that? Indeed everybody does. Then why should our elderly you compromise on that, just because you have grown old and cannot go out buying stuffs or put yourself to cook? 
This doesn’t seem fair.

4.Health care & Safety

With age, an increase in the unevenness of health is expected. Thus all you need is to give more attention to yourself now. Plus, safety also turns into major concern now. There have been cases reported where the elderly forgets to turn off the gas in kitchen and falls asleep.

Therefore, the concept of senior living homes was an utmost need and emerged as the best resolve to all the problems of the senior communities. Places like the Golden Estate (www.thegoldenestate.com) restores the respect our elders are worthy of but were unable to locate.

Luxuries of Old Age

Age is nothing but a number. There is nothing that you cannot do at 80, which you could at 18. A survey says people who are more likely to perceive themselves as old, actually get old sooner. Rest stay young at heart, all their lives.

Although yes, it is an inevitable truth of life and one just cannot do anything about it, but can obviously do a lot of things with it. All you need is not to give up on positivity, and all the world is still yours.
Here are some of the luxuries of Old age, one must avail:

1. Enjoy your retirement.
You already have had enough of 50 working hours a week. It is time to relax now. It is time you do something which you have desired all your life. Take up some hobbies. Choose any art. Take all the time you want. And explore it.

2. Enjoy an active social life.
Isn’t it high time you took a break or go social with your friends? The one constant hitch of all your life is the biggest benefit of your retirement. You have plenty of time at hand. Use this time socializing with your friends and relatives. Take your grandchildren to parks. Or, show them how beautiful are the sunsets.

3. Enjoy attractive food.
Good balanced food and sound sleep is most important. Don’t ever compromise on that. Your body might be weakening and needs proper nutrients intake. Plus, nutritious food also helps keeping you healthy and automatically fights some of the old age ailments.

4. Enjoy your nest eggs.
It is time to spend your savings now. Plan trips, pack your bags and go tour. Buy a camera, and go shoot the seven wonders. Write about your experiences. Or, join reading hubs, and read as many books you can of your choice. The idea is, loosen up a little.

5. Enjoy an active life.
Our body needs to move. They need to be used to their full ability, everyday. Go out. Do some exercises. Take up yoga. Go for hiking round the outskirts. Swim. Stay fit, and stay young.

Old age in this new era has its own bonuses. Today, we have retirement communities e.g. the Golden Estate (www.thegoldenestate.com), which offers senior care service, selflessly. All they need is to place your trust with these communities, and they will happily do all your retirement planning.

Senior citizens and their difficulties in communication

There are many different hearing, language, and speech problems that affect the elderly. By understanding what the symptoms are seniors can seek SeniorCitizens Services and identify the problem as early as possible.

Hearing difficulties affect many elderly across India. The most common cause of this is presbycusis which is age-related hearing loss. This loss of hearing happens slowly, and first results in the difficulty to hear high-frequency sounds as someone talks. As this condition gets worse, lower-frequency sounds can become difficult to hear as well. Some of the symptoms include: difficulty hearing in noisy places, ringing in the ears, and voices sounding slurred or mumbled. It will also be easier to understand a man’s voice than a woman’s. While there is no cure for this condition, there are some treatments available with the most common being hearing aids.

Aphasia is a condition where seniors experience impairment in language ability. Symptoms may include the inability to understand language, inability to form words or pronounce words, and inability to read or write.

The major causes of aphasia are strokes and head injuries. And because of the complex nature of aphasia there is no universal treatment method. It presents itself differently in patients and, therefore, requires a team effort in providing a treatment plan. This may include a doctor, social worker, speech pathologist, psychologist, and occupational therapist. Overall treatment has been known to create positive outcomes when learning to adjust to these limitations in communication.

Dysarthria is a disorder that interferes with the normal production of speech. People who have dysarthria often have challenges with vocal quality, range, tone, strength in speech, and timing. Causes of dysarthria include degenerative disease (Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease, and ALS), embolic stroke, and traumatic brain injury. Treatment is typically done by speech pathologists and includes a variety of techniques.

If you notice a change in speech, memory, organisation, or communication in general than it should be reported to your physician or the senior’s physician immediately. These problems can often occur when there is an underlying problem, so it’s important to address this as soon as possible.

World class Senior Retirement homes under the exceptional care of TGE

Caring for Elders…Make them ‘Special’

Everyone wants to be independent and self-governing, whether they are 6 or 60 years old. The way we age has changed significantly over the years. Most of us live to an older age and many able to continue independent, busy lifestyle, and active routine to an advanced age. The Golden Estate is an admirable & gleaming care home offering 24-hour care and support to people over the age of 60, living relax and stress free.

The TGE’s aim is to give its SeniorCitizens Residence exceptional care with safe, warm, and homely environment. TGE also makes sure its residents never feel alone or bore even feel happy, comfortable, and fully enjoy their stay with it. There are so many activities they can do here like outings, visits local shops, visits parks, cooking classes, playing games, spend time with friends, happy hours and much more. Along with activities, TGE provides state of the art facilities such as complete medical support, fool proof security, best-in-class personal care services (dining and dietary planning, housekeeping, laundry), and each room has an attached pantry, balcony and toilet, and is furnished with en-suite facilities (double bed, split air-conditioner, telephone line and Internet, flat-screen TV with DTH connection, emergency ‘Call-Point’, geyser, microwave, refrigerator, etc).

And now, the most important query about food isn’t hygienic or not. So chill relax and leave worry about that. Meals at The Golden Estate are provided to superior standards using fresh vegetables and high quality ingredients. Special diets can also be catered for diabetic and any other problem suffered people.

At TGE, we believe in the celebration of life and undertake a solemn promise to build a happy community of residents and take care of each one of them as family. Come grow old along with TGE...The best is yet to be.