Stay Health in Elderly


Old age is a natural process for every human being. Where in the body function of old times will decrease as you get older. The aging process begins from the appearance of wrinkles and then slowly begin to weakens the immune system so that it more easily exposed to the disease. You don't need to worry because of aging cannot be stopped but it can be slowed down. If you are aged 60 's, You can still live with healthy and fit. How to tips on maintaining the health of the elderly? The following explanation:


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How to maintain the health of the elderly 60 annual?


1. Stay Active

Age 60 years, the activity you do not may be the same as it used to be. Maybe you currently spend more time at home rather then doing outdoor activities.

Even though it has entered the age of 60, doesn't mean you can stop moving on. Do not use this to stop your regular gym schedule. While for those who just want to start a healthy life, no word too late to exercise regularly.

The sport already a necessity for all walks of life, including the elderly. However, the type and intensity of exercise that is done naturally had to be adapted to the condition of the body. Some of the benefits of exercise for the health of the elderly:

Immune boost

    Boost hormone production of endorphins, which can reduce stress
    Keep weight remains normal
    Increase the strength of the bone

Even exercise is also good for the health of elderly brains. Getting old, brain function decline so that the elderly be more easily forgotten. A disease that attacks the central nervous system develop, much like alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, or Parkinson's disease.

Keep the body stay active can slow the aging process in the cells and tissues in the brain at once lowers the risk of disease in the brain. In addition, elderly sports can still be active with other activities, such as gardening, playing with a grandchild, or making handicrafts.


2. Eat healthy foods

So that the health of the elderly keep awake, then other major key is eating a healthy diet. Unfortunately, this way may be constrained to other problems, namely when the aging ability tasted flavors also are increasingly reduced. Moreover, many foods that are not allowed to eat and also reduced the use of salt so the appetite in the elderly can be decreased.

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The elderly can fill his spare time to make healthy food menu at once cooked it myself. Add spices can enhance the taste of food.


3. Adequate rest

Many elderly who experience sleep disturbances at night. This will certainly make the time istirahatnya is reduced.  Offered from AARP, an organization that focuses on the health of the elderly, Terlecki p. Ryan, m.d., Assistant Professor of Urology at the Faculty of medicine at Wake Forest University in New York says that more than 80 percent of the elderly often woke up at night to to the bathrooms are eventually interfere with sleep time.

To that end, Terlecki suggested on the elderly to reduce drinking a lot of water in the evening and do consulting back to consideration doctor related diuretic drug use to drink in the morning instead of at night. Elderly who feel the urging to urinate too often all the time, usually caused by the bladder muscles that are too active.


4. Regularly check your health and medication

The elderly particularly vulnerable affected because the system imunnya the increasingly weakened. Hence, the elderly should routinely examine health periodically, so keep the observed condition. When symptoms appear, don't delay to conduct the examination. Because the longer it is diagnosed and treated, the more poor body condition and treatment difficult.

During the treatment, noted the development of the health of the elderly from the treatment done and routine for taking the medication already prescribed. When causing side effects, consult the doctor to get another drug.