Early Adulthood, MIddle & Old Age

Session 25 - Old Age - Why And How Do We Age?


Run through last sessions homework and ensure that all students have the complete lifespan observation tables completed.


Move onto next life stage => Old Age


Is this what old people do for fun???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjP65Avhn5M




Place the following in workbooks:


Old Age: is a period of life that most of us will experience. It is the stage of life that begins at approximately 60 years of age and ends when we die. Biologically people of old age have limited regenerative abilities and are more prone to disease, syndromes and sickness. A person's cognitive capacity decreases, especially memory, as the hippocampus (as well as the brain) begins to shrink and decrease. Socially, those of old age move into retirement and begin to question their own experiences and satisfaction with the life they have forged.

LEAVE SPACE FOR OBSERVATION TABLE TO BE INCLUDED!!!

This leads to the question = Why and how to we actually age?


Move onto watch the Catalyst Show: 'As time goes by' and students are to complete the following questions in their workbooks - answers must be completed underneath the questions:

1. Explain what happens to our cognitive abilities (especially our memory and hippocampus) during the aging process?
2. Describe how the human brain changes as we get older?
3. What happens when a person of old age is presented with large amounts of new stimulus across his/her senses?
4. What is 'sarcopenia'?
5. Explain what happens to the liver as we get older?
6. What is the theory of 'free radicals' in relation to aging?

Run through the students observations - ensure that all is understood...

Students are to move onto completing the observation table for Old Age and the others if need be.