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Emotional Wellness and Stress Resilience
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Elizabeth R. Click, Alyssa Vela
When examining demographic factors impacted by stress, a lifespan approach is generally taken. Stress impacts children, adolescents, and young, middle, and older adults in different ways. Children and adolescents may experience stress in relation to self-esteem, gender, personality, social support, family makeup, health, and past experiences with stress (Pender et al., 2014). Young and middle-aged adults often deal with stressors related to career pursuits, relationships, child-bearing, and child-rearing. During older adulthood, some stressors experienced during youth may diminish, while others may be amplified. For example, managing sadness and loss often becomes more significant as people age. Changing health status and physical capability may also impact the effect of stress for older adults.
Different Dietary Approaches
Published in Ruth Chambers, Paula Stather, Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care, 2022
The aims of weight management by a health or social care professional should be to educate the person who is overweight or obese about the advantages to their health from losing weight, help them to understand the reasons for their state, agree on modest treatment goals and longer-term strategies for losing weight and sustaining that weight loss. Sometimes middle-aged and older people need to be more aware of their tendency to put on weight as they age as their metabolism slows down and they move about less. So if they eat as they always did when they were younger, they will gain weight and they need to convert to a different diet with less calories.
The middle years
Published in Julia Whitaker, Alison Tonkin, Play for Health Across the Lifespan, 2021
According to the Cambridge Dictionary (2020), middle age is ‘the period of life, usually considered to be from 45–60 years of age when you are no longer young but are not yet old’. Carl Jung (2001: 140) called the middle years ‘the afternoon of life’ and it is often thought of as a lull between the dynamism of adolescence and early adulthood and the slow amble into old age. However, Lachman et al. (2015) construe this period as a pivotal point, ‘linking childhood experiences with midlife health and lifestyle in midlife with health in old age’ (Lachman 2015: 6). At an interpersonal level, adults in their middle years influence the wellbeing of younger generations through their roles as parents, caregivers, and mentors, while their own wellbeing is similarly influenced by the circumstances of those around them (ibid.). As such ‘the midlife falls at the crossroads of gains and losses for many aging-related processes and life domains’ (ibid.: 6).
Distribution of age and apnea-hypopnea index in diagnostic sleep tests in West Texas
Published in Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2022
Jonathan Kopel, Silvia Jakubski, Mhd Hasan Al-Mekdash, Gilbert Berdine
Using Table 1 and Figure 7, several trends are apparent between age and AHI. As subjects get older, it is less likely for them to have a normal AHI. There was a significant reduction in the proportion of patients who had an AHI of 0–4.9 between the 18–39, 40–69, and 70+ age groups. The AHI values of 5–14.9 and 45+ remained relatively unchanged in all three age groups. In contrast, the proportion of participants with AHI values 15–44.9 increased between the age groups of 18–39 and 40–69; however, this trend did not continue for patients ≥70. This trend does not necessarily reflect the prevalence of OSA in these age groups. It could be that middle-aged patients are more likely to have sleep testing due to the appearance of other medical comorbidities (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and lung disease), or younger patients may have other causes of similar symptoms than middle-aged patients, so the younger patients do not have diagnostic sleep tests. As patients transition from middle age to elderly, other medical problems (heart disease, stroke, cancer) may take priority, causing sleep issues to be relatively ignored. It is unclear whether the interdependencies observed between age and AHI are due to changing severity of OSA with aging or are determined by other factors that influence who gets a sleep test.
The Perspectives of Australian Naturopaths about Providing Health Services for People with Sleep Disorders
Published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 2021
Vibha Malhotra, Joanna Harnett, Keith Wong, Bandana Saini
Of all the above stated treatments prescribing herbs was the most common treatment especially for long-term treatment of some ailments. Participants reported exercising their craft-based skills through extemporaneous compounding of herbal formulations in their own dispensary as per individual patient requirements. For long-term stress of middle-aged people, I would recommend herbs. Like passion-flower, hops, valerian. Kind of try the dose. The most difficult part is to get the dose right. Cause people are so different, genetically. (Naturopath # 3, Sydney)Another treatment is using nutrients for the nervous systems, like calcium, potassium, glutamine, major vitamins. That’s what they take so that the stress response is being nourished during the day so it’s in a calmer state by the time they get to sleep in the evening. (Naturopath #9, Sydney)There are some treatments that I use that come from a background in yoga and meditation, so I might get them to do alternative nostril breathing, a type of pranayama [a form of yoga] that tends to just get them to focus on their breath and the thoughts tend to go away. It will really depend upon how problematic the sleep issue is. (Naturopath #19, Sydney)
Andropause symptoms and sickness absence in Japanese male workers: a prospective study
Published in The Aging Male, 2020
Kumi Hirokawa, Yasuhito Fujii, Toshiyo Taniguchi, Jiro Takaki, Akizumi Tsutsumi
The andropause symptoms reported by middle-aged men include insomnia, decreased libido, reduced sexual activity, decreased mineral bone density, and abdominal obesity [28], and these are similar to menopausal symptoms in middle-aged women. Men with testosterone deficiency tend to display a similar syndrome, specifically in relation to the sexual domain, according to the European Male Aging Study survey [29,30]. Based on recommendations for clinical diagnosis [19], andropause refers to the combination of low testosterone levels and clinical symptoms, especially sexual symptoms. The tool used to measure andropause symptoms in the present study, the AMS scale, comprises not only “sexual symptoms,” but also “somatic” and “psychological” symptoms [31]. The results of this study were that sexual symptoms were not associated with sickness absence and neither were low testosterone levels. Additionally, no association was found between testosterone deficiency combined with high sexual symptoms and sickness absence. However, somatic symptoms were positively associated with an increased risk of sickness absence, particularly absences because of physical illness. Among the items in the AMS somatic symptom sub-scale was a question on “complaints in joints or muscles (pain in lower back, joints, or legs).” A higher percentage of men with testosterone deficiency reported back and/or neck pain than those without testosterone deficiency [32]. Somatic symptoms related to aging such as joint and muscle pain could be reflected on the scores of the AMS scale; however, those somatic symptoms are not specific for either andropause or LOH.