How Communication Promotes Healthy Aging

How Communication Promotes Healthy Aging

It pays to communicate frequently with your health care manager. When you communicate frequently, you cut back the risks of various diseases that affect the elderly. Studies show that people who frequently discuss their health with doctors live a longer and healthier life.

How far communication stretches:
Communication reaches further however than verbal words. When you doctor reviews your health, you should be willing to participate. Participation includes joining your doctors to find treatments or cures for your condition. In addition, you can communicate well with your doctor if you take the time to learn about healthcare, medicines, illnesses and so on. You not only stay informed, but you can help your doctor find treatments when the condition is swaying. For instance, if you are diagnosed with osteoarthritis, and have knowledge of the condition, you can provide your doctor pointers when the condition causes confusion.

Arthritis is commonly seen in older people. One of the leading causes is due to injuries and bones that hadn’t healed during the injury. The patient may have lacked knowledge to strengthen the bones, muscles and joints, thus the condition lead to arthritis. Hereditary factors key into arthritis as well according to few experts. It is up to your bone structure and genetics that decide if you get arthritis. Contrary to these theories, it may be worth while learning, since arthritis is treatable when you catch it at its earliest stage.

Alzheimer’s is a mental disorder that affects the intellectual functions. At the earliest stage, doctors state that cures are available. The problem is due to lack of knowledge from learning many elders visit the doctors at the later stage. Now we do not have a cure. Now, it these people would have took interest in their own health and various disorders that interrupt elders, thus they would probably miss dementia. Dementia derives from Alzheimer’s disease, which at this stage the disease starts progressing.

Cancer is another disease that affects millions of our older generation. Cancers according to experts may have a chance if only the patient would have taking time to study and learn. As well, if the patient would have visited the doctor regularly, if the patient would have studied health care, thus this patient may had a cure. Since few people take the time to learn about health care, we have a world filled with patients dying from cancer, since no cures are available.

On the other hand, new studies has shown that the blood from a newborns umbilical cord may heal certain types of cancer. The blood is frozen after tested and stored to treat leukemia or other cancer patients. The blood creates new cells at rapid paces, which is great for restoring dying cells. As we grow older the dying, cells accumulate while the living cells degenerate. Perhaps these studiers of medicines has found their cure.

When you take time to communicate with your doctor and study health care, you will have the time to live for healthy aging.


Keep in mind the body’s functions begin to decline when you turn 30. In spite of the facts, when you are young it is time to take action by communicating with your doctor regularly and learning more about healthy aging and disease.

Food for thought:
To stay healthy you will need a primary health care provider. You will need to continue visits, participate in testing, cures, treatments and so on. You will need to contact your doctor when symptoms emerge, which you know by now since you took time to learn about disease before it was too late!

BONUS : How Do We Age?

Aging affects every inch of our bodies. Aging is a slow deterioration of cells, which takes a toll on our vital organs, functions, bodily tissues, and brain.

Aside from its physical effects, aging also affects our emotions, which are shaped by years of responding to stimuli in specific ways.

The aging body goes through a series of changes that have direct impact on how it will later function. As we age, the main organic changes are a follows:

(1) Vessels' blood carrying volume is reduced, due to calcification and collagen deposits in veins, arteries, and capillaries feeding the entire body. Blood flow is thereby reduced, along with the oxygenation of bodily tissues.

(2) The heart's blood-pumping chambers gather layers of connective tissue that diminish its capacity and holding volume. Blood flow is also reduced and oxygenation diminished.

(3) Lungs lose the elastic recoil that allow for the proper exchange of oxygenated and deoxygenated air. As a result, air remains in the bottom of the lungs, diminishing the amount of oxygen entering the blood. The tissues within the lungs also loose their functioning ability, reducing the amount of available oxygen even further.

(4) The digestive tract loses its readiness to absorb nutrients and becomes blocked with the growth of intestinal flora and yeasts that prevent proper absorption.

(5) The neurons in the brain die over the years, and nerve connections become less and less functional. Electric synapses between nerves and neurons are reduced and the response to stimuli is delayed.

(6) The skin's ability to stretch and flex is significantly inhibited in air of the physical changes that take place within its layers. Suffering dehydration and diminished production of collagen and elastin, the skin is more prone to sagging and wrinkling, acquiring a dull appearance and roughening in texture.