Question

Mrs. Fatima is 65 years old, celebrating her birthday. She is widow, lost her husband 6 month back. She lives alone but she has grandchildren who sometimes visit her. She works as a school teacher. Everyone in the school was thanking her for her good work. Ali is a teacher working in the same school, he commented telling her that you are supposed to be at home by this age, you don’t have enough strength to continue your career. Mrs. Fatma has changes in her health condition as now she becomes fatigued easily, she also experience shortness of breath when she walked 2 blocks, sometimes she experience gastritis.

Analyse the Scenario of Mrs. Fatma and relate her situation with one of theories of aging , Describe in detail why do you think that this theory is applicable to Mrs, Fatma’s situations.

Answer 1

Mrs. Fatima is experiencing gastritis. Due to ageing, immune system become weaker as a result chances of infections increases. So frequency of Helicobacter pylori infection increase in aging patients. Gastrointestinal malignancy is more common in ageing patient compared to younger people

In old peoples there can be many reasons of getting fatigue. Mrs Fatima has lost her husband 6 months ago , so it can lead to fatigue in an old self dependent lady

Mrs. Fatima is experiencing shortness of breathing . There can be many causes like -

Asthma , pneumonia, COPD , chronic bronchitis, heart failure

So there are many theories regarding aging

- free radicals production causes aging

- telomerase destruction leads to inhibition of cell division

- weakening of immune system, leading to increased chances of getting infection