P4, M2 AND D2

Theories behind aging P4

The Neuroendocrine Theory:

This theory says that as we get older our hypothalamus which is gland located in a particular area in the brain helps to control our hormones. Which have slowed down due to aging. The chemical reaction which occurs for the hormones to respond and produce slows down by losing its ability to process things and as for our hormones they don’t process quick enough making individual hormones become less sensitive to them.

One theory for the hormones loss of regulation is to be a dark- hormone responsible for stress. This has been known to be one of the few hormones that will increase with stress.

 Reproductive cell-cycle theory

This theory suggests that as we get older the cells in our body age with us. This theory argues that these cellular changes are being directed through the reproductive hormones known as hypothalamic-pituitary. Hormone levels begin to change in men around 30 and for women it’s even more abrupt when they hit the stage of menopause around the age of 50.

When the HPG axis becomes unbalanced, cellular growth and development becomes deregulated and cell death and dysfunction can occur at this time.

Discuss two major theories of aging in relation to the development of the individual (M2)

Disengagement for elderly people

An elderly person will go through a number of stages in which they will experience disengagement. This includes:

• Everyone expects death, and one's abilities will likely deteriorate over time. As a result, every person will lose ties to others in his or her society.
• Because individual interactions between people strengthen norms, an individual who has fewer varieties of interactions has greater freedom from the norms imposed by interaction. Consequently, this form of disengagement becomes a circular or self-perpetuating process.
•  The individual's life is punctuated by ego changes. For example, aging, a form of ego change, causes knowledge and skill to deteriorate. However, success in an industrialized society demands certain knowledge and skill. To satisfy these demands, age-grading ensures that the young possess sufficient knowledge and skill to assume authority and the old retire before they lose their skills. This kind of disengagement is effected by the individual, prompted by either ego changes or the organisation—which is bound to organisational imperatives—or both.

In terms of disengagement effecting the celebrity I am writing about which is lupita Nyong’o it wouldn’t affect her yet because she has no yet reached the age of aging just yet and so this shall apply to her in her later life after she has retired from her career as an actor and can no longer act. Although her hobbies will begin to play a major part in her life these are: visiting museums: in able to keep herself educated about history and the way of the world and so old age shouldn’t stop her doing so., traveling she will be retired by a certain person and when she is she’ll have more time on her hands to sightsee and visit new places and discover new cultures ad their way of life, reading good books and enjoying some good cooked food.

Evaluate the influences of two major theories of aging in health and social care provision (D2)

Again this would not apply to the celebrity that I am doing because she hasn’t yet reached that stage of her life. But eventually when she requires that care in her elderly years lupita will definitely require lots of care  and encouragement  with activities/ interests that she enjoys i.e.: her love to travel, read good books etc. also in terms of her care during her aging years lupita will probably be able to afford to have good care because of the profession she is currently in which is acting and so because she is earning a massive amount she may choose to have private care In her own residence which will consists of several carers all to carry out different roles to help her with that she will no longer be able to do by herself anymore.

She may have to withdraw because she will not have not have the mental and physical strength to do things anymore like she could in her younger life. If lupita is an actress then her body will become physically exhausted from all the roles she has played in young years when she had the strength. As for a health and social care setting she would most probably be withdrawn from completing some of her favourite activities because of the main reason that I just stated above which her lack of strength was. Although on the other hand she might not have to withdraw from her hobbies/ activities if she gets a dedicated and encouraging carer who will help her to continue perusing the activities she enjoys to do despite her aging. Ie: taking her to eat in her favourite with a carer assisting and helping her out, travelling can still occur if she still has strength to flight or even short distance locations can be good even for a great change of scenery would mean a whole to an elderly person than not travelling anywhere.