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7 Resilience and Aspects of Well-Being in Older Age
Pages 53-60

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... Some researchers and models have attempted to include recovery as an important part of the aging process. A basic biological model focuses on the recovery side after people have a disease and receive treatment but does not go into depth as to how to measure recovery and how this affects the aging process.
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From page 54...
... In the last 5 years, he said, there has been a new emphasis on the term "resilience" and on factors that drive or hinder recovery. Samper-Ternent noted that resilience is not a new term, having been used since World War I to describe children exposed to traumatic events but who then do well at older ages, as well as older people and the psychological factors associated with good quality of life in spite of disease and adverse events.
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From page 55...
... NUTRITION AND AGING Cecilia Albala, Universidad de Chile, spoke about aspects of nutrition and aging in Chile, summarizing data obtained through a longitudinal study begun in Santiago in 1999 and through other projects. Looking first at healthy life expectancy (i.e., life expectancy without functional limitations)
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From page 56...
... In light of these numbers, and knowing that there is a redistribution of adipose tissue with age, Albala questioned why the World Health Organization cutoff points to define obesity are still used, and whether these are the optimal cutoff points. Studies have shown waist circumference is an excellent indicator of central adiposity and could be as good as the BMI index for predicting mortality in the older adult (see Donini et al., 2012)
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From page 57...
... . Of increasing concern to health practitioners is the combination of having osteoporosis plus sarcopenia at an older age, which raises the odds of fracture by a factor of 2.2.
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... BIOMARKERS AND UNDIAGNOSED DISEASE Soham Al-Snih, University of Texas Medical Branch, spoke about biomarkers and undiagnosed diseases. She described biomarkers as a broad category of objective indicators of medical states observed from outside an individual, measures that are accurate and reproducible.
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From page 59...
... Focusing on Mexico, Al-Snih stated the 2006 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey found 5.2 percent of respondents with undiagnosed diabetes, based on fasting plasma glucose levels. She then described the collection of biomarkers in a subsample of people aged 50 and older in the Mexican Health and Aging Study.
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