Question

The chapter cites that most (76%) adults ages 65 and over believe they have good to excellent health.

a) How is this explained when chronic illnesses are more prevalent in the elderly and most have comorbidities?

b) Use two indicators of health that are referenced in this chapter to explain your answer.

c) Discuss why BMI may not be a useful tool to measure body composition in the elderly.

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Answer 1

a) if the women having chronic illness as a health care professional we need to explain the about the illness how it is occurring, what are the causes for that and how to reduce and how to coap up with the situation and providing psychological support.

b) nutrition , physical activity , clinical preventive services, mental health, environmental quality, metarnal , infant, child services these are the indicators of health while using this indicators we can reduce the risk for cronic illness.

C) inorder to measure the body composition in elder people anthropology is needed. But not basal mass index.