Problems with Senses—Hearing, Vision, Smell, Touch, and Taste—May Predict Older Adults’ Overall Health and Ability to Function
[2023-05-04 18:25:31]
The five senses are hearing, vision, smell, touch, taste. As these feelings dim or disappear with age, we face the challenge of dealing with our daily lives. Loss of people's senses can also lead to serious health problems
Researchers focus on what happens when people lose one or two senses. However, we know that the elderly often loses more than one feeling. So far no research has been done to investigate the effects of multi-sensory loss on the elderly. In order to learn more, the researcher team at the University of Chicago designed a study focused on this. Their research was published in the journal of the American Gerontological Society.
Researchers conducted family interviews with 3,005 elderly people aged 57 to 85. They examined the participants' ability to listen, look, smell, touch and taste. We also evaluated participant activity, health behavior, chronic illness, cognitive function (thinking ability and judgment), and body mass index (body mass index, obesity index comparing body weight and body weight). Five years later, the researchers reassessed living participants.
The difficulty of doing eight important daily activities, including bathing, feeding, shopping yourself, doing light housework, and managing your economic situation
Researchers report that the performance of mobility tests will degrade as older people experience sensory disturbances. Participants who feel more problematic are more likely to have problems with more than one daily activity.
Women, elderly participants, smokers, people with chronic illness are more disabled than other participants
After five years, the participants who felt obstructed at the start of the exam walked more slowly than participants who did not feel so much. Participants in obesity, hypertension and chronic disease will be much slower than other participants. Women, ethnic minorities, and women with low educational standards are also much slower than other participants.
Researchers concluded that elderly people with multiple sensory senses should be carefully monitored due to poor physical condition. It also suggests that monitoring early risk at elderly may help prevent problems such as cognitive dysfunction.
This summary is quoted from "Global sensory disorder predicting morbidity and mortality in the elderly in the United States". It appeared before the online edition of the American Gerontological Society journal. Research authors are Jayant M. Pinto, MD, Kristen E. Wroblewski, MS, Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, Camil Correia, MD, Kevin J. Lopez, BS, Dr. Rachel C. Chen, and Dr. Rachel C It is Chen. Kern, Ph.D; L. Philip Schumm, MA; William Dale, MD, Ph.D; and Martha K. McClintock, Ph.D.
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