Mental Illness in Elderly Patients
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ENC 1101
February 16, 2013
Mental Illness in the Elderly Patients
Perceiving both a healthy emotional and well-being mental state are as essential in older age as at any other time of life. As one ages 60 or over, one tends to have got the likelihood of having dementia or mental impairment because of underlying disorders and diseases or due to the influence of drugs and alcohol; although it’s not a part of aging. Dementia is not a single disease in itself, but a general term to describe symptoms affecting several brain functions such as memory, thinking and planning. Accordingly, by 2001, surrounding factors such as life-style customs and especially, physical fitness have been left unattended by majority, which is an important factor in preventing against dementia and cognitive imapirment (Laurin 598). Danielle Laurin explores the relation between physical activity and having the risk of dementia and mental impairment. In 2011, R. Ruscheweyh’s depicts a more penetrated conversation between the association of physical activity and dementia after having discovers the positive effects on the cognition. In the meantime, the discussion on the relation between physical activity and dementia remains unchanged due to the results of elderly patients having lower risks of cognitive impairment and dementia of any type.
In 2001, a new survey is constructed referencing from the data of a cohort study of dementia, which is a randomly selected group of women and men of 65 years or older, consisting of 9008 people during 1991-1992. Two waves of study are conducted in Last Name 2 which clinical and screening evaluations are done in each wave: leaving 436 people diagnosed as having dementia but no dementia and 285 of people as having dementia (Laurin 498). These two groups are engaged to ‘moderate level of physical activity’, which is equal to doing exercise of three or more times per week, ‘but of an intensity equal to
Professor's Name
ENC 1101
February 16, 2013
Mental Illness in the Elderly Patients
Perceiving both a healthy emotional and well-being mental state are as essential in older age as at any other time of life. As one ages 60 or over, one tends to have got the likelihood of having dementia or mental impairment because of underlying disorders and diseases or due to the influence of drugs and alcohol; although it’s not a part of aging. Dementia is not a single disease in itself, but a general term to describe symptoms affecting several brain functions such as memory, thinking and planning. Accordingly, by 2001, surrounding factors such as life-style customs and especially, physical fitness have been left unattended by majority, which is an important factor in preventing against dementia and cognitive imapirment (Laurin 598). Danielle Laurin explores the relation between physical activity and having the risk of dementia and mental impairment. In 2011, R. Ruscheweyh’s depicts a more penetrated conversation between the association of physical activity and dementia after having discovers the positive effects on the cognition. In the meantime, the discussion on the relation between physical activity and dementia remains unchanged due to the results of elderly patients having lower risks of cognitive impairment and dementia of any type.
In 2001, a new survey is constructed referencing from the data of a cohort study of dementia, which is a randomly selected group of women and men of 65 years or older, consisting of 9008 people during 1991-1992. Two waves of study are conducted in Last Name 2 which clinical and screening evaluations are done in each wave: leaving 436 people diagnosed as having dementia but no dementia and 285 of people as having dementia (Laurin 498). These two groups are engaged to ‘moderate level of physical activity’, which is equal to doing exercise of three or more times per week, ‘but of an intensity equal to