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An overview of eHealth interventions to support caregivers. A review of evidence relevant to Young Onset Dementia
Published in Marjolein de Vugt, Janet Carter, Understanding Young Onset Dementia, 2021
Providing timely, accurate diagnosis and associated support for YOD is a challenge related to poor understanding of this population (Carter et al., 2018). During the delay of diagnosis, support will help people overcome barriers to accepting the diagnosis (Millenaar et al., 2016). Reliable explanations of how support will help are important alongside information signposting what is available and how to find appropriate services (Millenaar et al., 2016). There is a lack of specialist ‘ageless’ services to address aspects that are known but not addressed, including poor condition awareness and help with physical symptoms (Rodda & Carter, 2016). Associated multiple conditions and risk factors contribute to the challenges of managing YOD in a situation where management affects the progress of the condition (Millenaar et al., 2016).
Designing for palliative care
Published in Stephen Verderber, Ben J. Refuerzo, Innovations in Hospice Architecture, 2019
Stephen Verderber, Ben J. Refuerzo
Recent research by Aubrey deGrey, of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., has sought to better understand the biology of aging.58 DeGrey has also written on the myths surrounding popular conceptions of aging.59 This researcher is of the view that a cure for cancer is on the horizon, and when this impediment is overcome the opportunities to extend human life will be dramatic.60 Other work on the biophysiology of agelessness raises the specter of the evolutionary suppression of the human species, as if assuming that human life can be extended indefinitely.61 Regardless, by 2050 our culture will have become fascinated with the prospect of indefinite life extension, if current avenues of research in human genetics and biogerontology are to provide any hints of what is yet to come.62 And, if true, the implications for an architecture for the ‘ageless’ will be equally profound.
Vitamins
Published in Frank A. Barile, Barile’s Clinical Toxicology, 2019
The most biologically active form of vitamin E, a fat-soluble vitamin, is dl-α-tocopherol. The antioxidant properties of vitamin E help to protect cells from oxidative processes. For example, it preserves the integrity of the red blood cell membrane, stimulates the production of cofactors in steroid metabolism, and suppresses prostaglandin synthesis and platelet aggregation. Vitamin E has numerous unlabeled uses, including the prevention of cancer, preservation of ageless skin, and stimulation of sex drive. However, it is only indicated for the treatment of nutritional states related to vitamin E deficiency. It is widely distributed in nature, predominantly found along with polyunsaturated fatty acids in vegetables and their oils, meat, dairy, wheat, soy, and nuts. Its ubiquitous presence, coupled with a low RDA, makes clinical deficiency of vitamin E a rare phenomenon. Premature infants and patients with malabsorption syndromes, however, are more likely to develop deficiency, defined as having tocopherol levels less than 0.5 mg/dl. Signs and symptoms of deficiency, particularly in premature infants, include hemolytic anemia, thrombocytosis, and increased platelet aggregation.
Between Exploration, Pleasure, and Performance: Sexual Enhancement Medication Use among Older Gay and Heterosexual Men
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2020
I. Wallach, J. Beauchamp, M. Alarie, G. Miller
There are two concurrent ways of interpreting the physical effects of aging on the body, namely: the “decline/success” model of aging, which is the predominant perspective found in pharmaceutical discourses, and the “affirmative old age” perspective, “which affirms the differences that aging bodies produce without understanding them as involving decline or loss” (Sandberg, 2013, p. 26). As several authors have noted, the recognition that many older men wish to stay sexually active as they advance in age is rooted in a “positive aging” movement, and it has contributed to the deconstruction of ageist stereotypes that dissociate sexuality and aging (Gott, 2005; Katz & Marshall, 2003; Marshall, 2002, 2006). Nevertheless, others argue that the promotion of an ageless sexuality is rooted in ageism, as it pressures older men to try to reproduce an (idealized) version of young men’s sexual abilities (Marshall, 2006; Potts et al., 2006; Sandberg, 2011) and encourages them to remain “forever functional” (Marshall & Katz, 2002). By providing older men with the possibility to preserve (or improve) their erectile capacities as they advance in age, SEM can be understood as feeding the increasing cultural imperative for older men to embody masculinity and sexuality in an ageless way.
‘I Finally Got Rid of My Shadow!’: Psychotherapy with an Oldest Old Woman – A Growth Process for Client and Therapist
Published in Clinical Gerontologist, 2023
Although formal therapy has concluded, I have continued to serve as a good self-object with whom she can share occasional frustrations, negative thoughts and, most recently, loneliness due to lack of social activities. When she was 98 years old, she said “I finally got rid of my shadow. I am happy.” At her 100th birthday celebration, I asked, “Rachel, you are 100-years-old, but how old do you feel?” She responded with a broad smile, “I feel 25-years-old!” – validating that the self can be ageless, that one’s sense of self may not be bounded by chronological age (Kauffman, 1986).
An Immortal Ghost in the Machine?
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2023
Beyond drawing comparisons to existing morally relevant beings, however, comes another interlinked issue. While one could argue that those with the power to provide essential resources to conscious beings (artificial or organic) are obligated to do so, the nature of such an obligation may shift or be nullified when the life in question is functionally immortal. The fact that such a life is potentially ageless means that the very nature of any responsibility is sufficiently distinct to cases where a life has an expected, in-built conclusion.